MULTI-AWARD winning lighting artist George Singer, who grew up in Minehead and studied art under local artists Andy and Toni Davey, has unveiled a dramatic lighting installation in a private house in North Vietnam.

The piece, titled Lua - the Vietnamese word for silk - is a striking suspended sculpture containing more than 20,000 hand-painted solid glass balls in shades of amber and frosted white.

It has recently won three prestigious awards, a Red Dot award, an architecture and design prize, and lighting design.

Mr Singer said the flowing, undulating form of Lua was inspired by the natural movement of silk, to create an atmosphere of ‘elegance, serenity, and grandeur’.

In collaboration with the digital artists Onformative, Mr Singer, now based in London, employed advanced simulation technology to translate the movement of silk into a sculptural form that would have been impossible to realise by hand alone.

He said each glass ball’s placement was guided by the ‘tension within the digital model, merging artisanal skill with cutting-edge digital innovation’.

The installation is illuminated from above by John Cullen spotlights and internally by hundreds of fibre optic lights, offering a dynamic lighting experience from soft, tranquil evenings to vibrant celebrations, all controlled via a wall-mounted iPad.

A spokesperson for the project said: “Lua stands as a statement of how digital innovation and artisanal craftsmanship can combine to express a new, elevated form of contemporary beauty.”

In 2017, Mr Singer won first prize for best lighting installation at the prestigious International Design and Architecture Awards, as well as first prize at the Darc Awards.

Both prizes were for Zephyr, a 60-metre-long, permanent lighting installation for the Fairmont Hotel, in St Andrews, Scotland.

The spokesperson said: “George produces objects of beauty, allowing the materials and form to work in harmony to dictate the aesthetic.”