Stately home chapel is transform with new lighting

3:48pm Thursday 20th March 2014 in News

A STATELY home chapel has been transformed following the installation of new environmentally friendly lighting to show off its ornate interior.

The family chapel at Castle Howard, near Malton in North Yorkshire, has been untouched for more than 140 years and features painted frescos depicting designs by Charles Eamer Kempe and stained glass windows by Edward Burne Jones.

The space has gilded and fluted columns and under a high, coffered ceiling based on Holbeins design for the Royal Chapel in St James Palace.

The pre-Raphaelite style Anglican chapel was decorated by Morris & Co, commissioned by Edward Howard, the younger brother of the 8th Earl of Carlisle.

The chapel has also featured as the Marchmain family chapel in both film and television adaptations of Brideshead Revisited.

The Hon Simon Howard said: It has long been an ambition of mine to light the chapel, but it had to be done sympathetically to showcase the magnificent decoration.

It was also important that the lighting was environmentally friendly, as well as economic; I am delighted with the results and the success of the project.

The chapel has always featured in the house tour, but it has been unguided. This year for the first time we are guiding the chapel to share with visitors the intricate detail and amazing stories.

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Owen Sound's Hobart Food Equipment plant gave a new commercial dishwasher to Grey Highlands Secondary School over the March Break, school principal Andrea Tang said in a news release Wednesday.

The new dishwasher was installed in the kitchen, which was freshly painted, received new ceiling tiles and a stainless steel backsplash. Staff from Hobart refinished the stainless steel counters and assisted with the technical aspects of the installation, the news release said.

Students in the school's hospitality and tourism program provide food to the school cafeteria and prepare meals for the Grey Highlands Meals on Wheels program.

This hands-on class is a great environment for those students who prefer to learn by doing rather than listening or writing, said Marjorie McIntyre, one of two teachers in the program. It really makes a difference in helping students obtain their diplomas.

Many use this experience to obtain part-time employment and others seek post-secondary training in the food services industry, the release said.

The school approached Hobart about whether it could fix its old Hobart mixer. Staff refurbished the machine and that contact led to the offer of a new machine to replace the washer, which also needed repairs.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) The Soap Factory has been pushing artistic boundaries as an art gallery in the St. Anthony Main neighborhood in Minneapolis for the past 25 years.

True to form, their new exhibit Art(ists) on the Verge 5 is a program that features five Minnesota artists and their non-traditional installations.

Art(ists) on the Verge is interactive. It brings audiences together directly with artists, Soap Factory program manager Lillian Enger said. And it also allows artists to use the Soap Factory space, which is a very large gallery space, and our network and support structure for working with artists.

Emily Stovers installation General Delivery spans the space, and speaks to the way we communicate as a society. Visitors write a postcard to anyone past, present or future, then drop it into a bin that digitizes it. Another part of the installation has visitors dressing in cloaks, looking for scan-able boxes to reveal the messages.

Its about the physical movement of information through space, whether its actually mailing a postcard or an email the new ways we are sending information as we enter the digital era.

Alison Hiltners project Survival Tactics is jellyfish-like tendrils hanging from the ceiling that buzz and move, and even appear to live.

Theyre all sort of dancing with each other and communicating through the vibrations of the boards, which all have a different acoustic capacities, Hiltner said.

Peter Sowinskis Autonomous makes you the artist. People create whatever they want and it will be represented on a screen by, as Sowinski said, videos that Ive shot of actual still lives.

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Usually buzzing with students animated conversations and shuffling feet, the empty halls of Hopkinton Middle/High School fell silent yesterday afternoon. The real activity was taking place in the ceiling above, where workers from Pelmac Industries began weaving the electrical groundwork for a new system of security cameras.

Hopkinton is one of the latest school districts to install the technology, which is often encouraged by state organizations as a way to improve student and teacher safety. In recent years, video cameras have become increasingly common in public schools.

I think every school we have toured in the last three to four years has entrance cameras or is working to get them, said Mark Joyce, executive director of the New Hampshire School Administrators Association.

For Hopkinton, the cameras are seen as a way to protect students from possible intruders and to cut back on bullying or vandalism.

We hope that it is a deterrent to bad behavior and provides teachable moments, said Superintendent Steve Chamberlain. Its more for deterrent than gotcha.

At a price of $21,590, the cost of Hopkintons cameras is split between the district and a grant from the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.

The agency developed the Emergency Management Performance Grant for Schools Program under the direction of Gov. Maggie Hassan following the shooting at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., said the divisions assistant director, Steven Temperino. In addition to offering money, the division has released a set of core standards to increase school safety that include surveillance, access control and emergency alerts.

Many schools in New Hampshire are very old and were never built with security in mind, Temperino said. We put these suggestions in the budgetary process . . . to develop safer schools.

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Chamberlain said the cameras being installed at the middle/high school are in line with the divisions guidelines.

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The royal commission into the Rudd government's troubled home insulation program that resulted in the deaths of four young men will begin hearing evidence in Brisbane today.

Former Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have been asked to provide documents to the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program and face the prospect of being called to appear in person before Commissioner Ian Hangar QC.

It is believed other senior Labor figures including current Opposition frontbencher Penny Wong have been contacted by the commission.

Read more about the men whose deaths are linked to the scheme, which was set up in 2009 as an economic stimulus measure to help ward off the effects of the global financial crisis.

Matthew Fuller was the first of the four young people who died working under the home insulation program.

He was 25 when he was electrocuted in a roof cavity in outer Brisbane in October 2009. His girlfriend, who was working alongside him, was badly burnt.

The young couple had been saving to move in together.

Matthew's father Kevin Fuller said his son had been laying ceiling insulation for less than a fortnight when he accidentally put a metal staple through aluminium foil and into a live electrical cable lying underneath.

"Matthew was a worker and knew that he could go and earn enough money to set up his future life," he said.

"On the day Matthew got killed, in the car was the application for Monique and Matt to move into a new rental place."

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Jacob Hashimotos installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center is a lot like the weather: all around us and bigger than everyone.

Made up of thousands of small paper-and-wood sculptures that resemble miniature kites, Hashimotos sprawling piece also puts visitors in mind of massive gatherings, whether theyre made up of people crowded into stadiums or represented by numbers too big to wrap your head around like the national debt or the amount of Twitter followers celebrities have. The rapidly changing relationship between individuals and groups takes powerful shape.

Gas Giant begins right inside the front door, meanders into a first-floor gallery and then picks up momentum as it drifts up a wide stairway to the towering second-floor gallery, where it blossoms to fill the enormous space with an explosion of beautifully composed forms. If Rose Bowl floats went to heaven, this is what they would look like.

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Yet theres nothing otherworldly about Hashimotos down-to-earth work. To wander among its components, all suspended from the ceiling on what must be miles of black thread, is to feel as if you are inside a 3-D painting. Its parts function like the dots in a Pointillist painting, sometimes clustering into groups and at others clashing with those around them.

Rather than overwhelming visitors with awesomeness, labor-intensity and size, Hashimoto puts his light touch to good use. Gas Giant may be massive, but its as gentle as a summer breeze and as intimate as a whisper, its simple shapes, basic colors and attractive patterns user-friendly.

The long hours of labor required to cut the paper, affix each sheet to toothpick-thin frames and string them into 50-foot strands is obvious. So is the careful planning that went into the composition. But both are far less important than the works overall effect: the uplift it generates in visitors of all stripes.

A sort of secular ascension transpires as your eyes follow Hashimotos forms skyward. The motion is slow and sensual because the journey is as important as the destination. (Gas Giant Studies, a beautiful exhibition of his drawings bears this out. Its on view through April 5 at Martha Otero Gallery in West Hollywood.)

In the age of Big Data, its inspiring to see art that keeps the big picture front and center. Giant Gas makes you feel as if you are part of something bigger than all of us, and just the tip of the iceberg.

MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, (310) 657-0800, through June 8. Closed Mondays. Admission free. http://www.moca.org

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Gastrosophy, a new art exhibit exploring the art of good eating, is making high art more palatable.

Food isnt a new thing to anybody. Talking about food and making it art isnt a new aesthetic theory, said Olivia Chow, curator of Gastrosophy.

What I really hope is that the work in here could create new relationships for viewers to relate to their food and the time they spend with it.

Encouraging the viewer to think beyond flavour and examine how our relationship with food forms our identity the social and cultural aspects of food Gastrosophy brought together seven local artists who share their experiences and feelings towards food through mediums as varied as the ingredients that make up some of our favourite dishes.

Its all about the sensory experience, said Chow. [The mediums explore] how to activate the sensory.

Opening night at Jackson Power Electric Ltd., 9754 60 Ave., featured performance art with Chelsea Boos with Practical Magick; Of Kitchen Wizardry and a special performance where a family shared their culture by making wontons live at the opening reception.

Other installations included a chandelier sculpture by Mackenzy Albright and Rachelle Bowen, entitled Shake and Bake and an immersive room installation designed for sensory overload created by Robert Harpin called #foodporn.

Gastrosophy is the third in a series of curated exhibits created in partnership with The Works International Visual Arts Society and Jackson Power Electric Ltd. as a creative way of connecting local artists in need of gallery space and a community-minded company looking to put under-utilized office space to good use.

Im a big supporter of the arts, and not just the visual arts, but theatre, performing arts and music, said Laura Jackson, president of Jackson Power Electric Ltd. Its a part of our life, so I wanted to support it.

The series has found an unusual home at Jackson Power Electric Ltd.s location, where Jackson had unused office space on top of their warehouse.

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