Tom HallChiswick House & Gardens Trust has detailed its inaugural After Dark at Chiswick House Gardens.
Launching on Thursday 15 November – 30 December, and running from Thursday to Sunday, the event will feature innovative light displays from world-renowned artists, offering ‘a sleek, modern and classy experience providing stunning and unique picture content for snap-happy social media fans’.
Visitors will be guided through a 45-minute trail set in the gardens of the 18th-century Chiswick House and Gardens.
The historical villa will form the canvas for an illuminating lighting display where classical architecture meets modern technology, care of renowned lighting designer, Nick Gray from Renegade.
Gray’s high-profile projects have included stage lighting for Kasabian, Last Shadow Puppets and Calvin Harris, and lighting design for many fashion shows including London Fashion Week, Anya Hindmarch, Mulberry, Julien Macdonald, Roksanda, Matthew Williamson and Temperley.
Several art installations by up-and-coming artist Finn Thomson will also feature.
Upon completion of the trail, visitors will tuck into a seasonal feast with London street food traders such as The Cheese Truck, Le Swine, Taco Dave, The Duck Shed and Love Churros.
Jennifer Davidson, event director of After Dark said: “We’re excited to produce a very different outdoors, after dark show and thrilled to be shining a light on one of the country’s greatest treasures – reigniting London’s fascination with Chiswick House and Gardens & Trust.”
Chiswick House is an 18th-century villa set in classically landscaped gardens in west London. The neo-classical house was designed from 1720-32 by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and his associate the painter, garden designer and architect, William Kent.