Ronan Devlin

🌟 Spotlight: From Local Heritage to Global Presence Our network bridges local heart and global reach, championing light art that connects artists with the places they call home. Through the Lightlab programme, artist Chloe Rodham was selected by Lightpool and Nightfall Middlesbrough to be part of their line-up, presenting her light artwork – Warren Street to new audiences across the North.. Our impact stretches beyond the UK, providing a global stage for talent to shine. Whether it’s Tom Biddulph illuminating Stockholm for Nobel Week Lights or @ronandevlinstudio (a 2018 Light Up The North SHINE alumnus) taking his work to international audiences, our community continues to redefine the possible. Most recently, Ronan’s Worstedopolis took centre stage at BD: is LIT as a highlight of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. Through international residencies, visiting curators, research trips, local commissions and skills development, we continue to build a two-way international exchange. We have strengthened our international connections through our ties with the ILO, International Light Festivals Organisation and recently welcomed three international curators from the network to explore light festivals in Doncaster, Barnsley, Wigan, and Wakefield Light art has the power to transform streets into stories, buildings into canvases, and towns into places to visit. Through collaboration, research, mentorship and exchange, we are building a creative community where light artists can thrive at home while reaching audiences across the world. 🔗 Read the full spotlight article - link in our bio! #SpotlightSeries #LightArt #LocalToGlobal #LightFestivals #ACESupported

Our third guest speaker for CURATION – Useful Stuff is… Ronan Devlin @ronandevlinstudio Ronan brings a wealth of hands‑on experience as an artist working across diverse spaces — from large‑scale outdoor projections to immersive light installations. He’ll be sharing practical insights on shaping atmosphere, refining aesthetics, and balancing didactics to create meaningful curatorial experiences. If you’re an artist curious about how to elevate the look, feel, and impact of your work in different environments, this session is packed with useful takeaways. 📍 Helix Arts 🗓️ 9 Feb 2026 | 2.00pm – 5.30pm Secure your spot: /helixarts #CommunityAction #MakeItHappen #Artistdevelopment

Warp + Weft 01 – Worstedopolis Worstedopolis is a large-scale projected textile artwork created for Bradford City Hall as part of BDisLit 2025. The work draws directly from Bradford’s history as a global centre of worsted textile production, translating the logic of weaving (warp, weft, tension, repetition, and variation) into a continuously evolving audio-visual form. Warp + Weft is an ongoing body of work that proposes a new civic graphic language for representing place. Drawing on textile design and production methods, the project replaces static symbols and flags with generative, time-based woven systems that evolve continuously. The moving textile becomes a model for place itself: layered, interdependent, and shaped by tension, repetition, and variation over time. By translating textile structures into living systems, the resulting works offer an inclusive way of expressing heritage, contemporary culture, and collective identity — one that resists fixed narratives and instead reflects the complexity, change, and multiplicity inherent in a place. Thanks to: BDisLit & Bradford Council Soundtrack – @antdickinson   Coding support – Davy Smith @davypaperboy   EMF AV & Chris Savage – projection Photography – Simon Williams @itchphoto @bradfordmdc @bradford_2025 @visitbradford @BDCulture_ #BDisLIT #Bradford2025 #art #light #textile

Warp + Weft 01 – Worstedopolis Worstedopolis is a large-scale projected textile artwork created for Bradford City Hall as part of BDisLit 2025. The work draws directly from Bradford’s history as a global centre of worsted textile production, translating the logic of weaving (warp, weft, tension, repetition, and variation) into a continuously evolving audio-visual form. Warp + Weft is an ongoing body of work that proposes a new civic graphic language for representing place. Drawing on textile design and production methods, the project replaces static symbols and flags with generative, time-based woven systems that evolve continuously. The moving textile becomes a model for place itself: layered, interdependent, and shaped by tension, repetition, and variation over time. By translating textile structures into living systems, the resulting works offer an inclusive way of expressing heritage, contemporary culture, and collective identity — one that resists fixed narratives and instead reflects the complexity, change, and multiplicity inherent in a place. Thanks to: BDisLit & Bradford Council Soundtrack – @antdickinson   Coding support – Davy Smith @davypaperboy   EMF AV & Chris Savage – projection Photography – Simon Williams @itchphoto @bradfordmdc @bradford_2025 @visitbradford @BDCulture_ #BDisLIT #Bradford2025 #art #light #textile

Warp + Weft 01 – Worstedopolis Worstedopolis is a large-scale projected textile artwork created for Bradford City Hall as part of BDisLit 2025. The work draws directly from Bradford’s history as a global centre of worsted textile production, translating the logic of weaving (warp, weft, tension, repetition, and variation) into a continuously evolving audio-visual form. Warp + Weft is an ongoing body of work that proposes a new civic graphic language for representing place. Drawing on textile design and production methods, the project replaces static symbols and flags with generative, time-based woven systems that evolve continuously. The moving textile becomes a model for place itself: layered, interdependent, and shaped by tension, repetition, and variation over time. By translating textile structures into living systems, the resulting works offer an inclusive way of expressing heritage, contemporary culture, and collective identity — one that resists fixed narratives and instead reflects the complexity, change, and multiplicity inherent in a place. Thanks to: BDisLit & Bradford Council Soundtrack – @antdickinson   Coding support – Davy Smith @davypaperboy   EMF AV & Chris Savage – projection Photography – Simon Williams @itchphoto @bradfordmdc @bradford_2025 @visitbradford @BDCulture_ #BDisLIT #Bradford2025 #art #light #textile

Worstedopolis - a new artwork projected onto Bradford City Hall for BDisLit 2025. The generative audio-visual piece weaves an evolving pattern, inspired by the city’s important textile heritage. Thanks to: BDisLit & Bradford Council @antdickinson – soundtrack Davy Smith @davypaperboy – coding support EMF AV & Chris Savage – projection @bradfordmdc @bradford_2025 @visitbradford @BDCulture_ #BDisLIT #Bradford2025 #art #light #textile

Warp + Weft 01 – Worstedopolis Worstedopolis is a large-scale projected textile artwork created for Bradford City Hall as part of BDisLit 2025. The work draws directly from Bradford’s history as a global centre of worsted textile production, translating the logic of weaving (warp, weft, tension, repetition, and variation) into a continuously evolving audio-visual form. Warp + Weft is an ongoing body of work that proposes a new civic graphic language for representing place. Drawing on textile design and production methods, the project replaces static symbols and flags with generative, time-based woven systems that evolve continuously. The moving textile becomes a model for place itself: layered, interdependent, and shaped by tension, repetition, and variation over time. By translating textile structures into living systems, the resulting works offer an inclusive way of expressing heritage, contemporary culture, and collective identity — one that resists fixed narratives and instead reflects the complexity, change, and multiplicity inherent in a place. Thanks to: BDisLit & Bradford Council Soundtrack – @antdickinson   Coding support – Davy Smith @davypaperboy   EMF AV & Chris Savage – projection @bradfordmdc @bradford_2025 @visitbradford @BDCulture_ #BDisLIT #Bradford2025 #art #light #textile

Earlier this year, as part of our pre-opening programme, we shared a unique opportunity to celebrate Culture House Sunderland through original and engaging content that reflects the creativity and vibrancy of the Sunderland community. The result was a fantastic range of commissioned films which will be appearing on the Expo Sunderland Pavilion screen throughout May and June, and one of these is Sunderland Objects. Created by North Shields-based artist and designer @ronandevlinstudio , with sound by Ant Dickinson, this visual poetry portrait of the city is composed of 250 bespoke signs, symbols, and texts drawn from research into its industrial heritage and contemporary culture. You can see it on the Expo Sunderland Pavilion screen from noon and 4pm throughout May, or you can watch on our YouTube channel (link in bio). @exposunderland #ExpoSunderlandPavilion #ExpoSunderland #CultureHouseSunderland #CultureHouse #CityOfSmart

Community Focus 10: Introducing Ronan Devlin, graphic designer & visual artist, member of the public art collective In Place, and trustee of Helix Arts. Ronan has been creating branding, exhibition, interactive installation, online media, and publication projects for over 20 years. His studio’s commercial work is informed by his visual art practice, offering unique viewpoints and outcomes for collaborators and clients. “I studied in Belfast and started my career in Dublin in the ’90s. After a few moves in the mid-2000s, following my wife Gillian’s academic career, we found ourselves in North Shields in 2018. Everything clicked! We found our home from home. The icing on the cake for me has been finding a home for the studio at 131. The people here are great, and it feels much more like a creative community than a collection of businesses. I always leave with something—a conversation, an idea, a laugh. I’m feeling very hopeful about what we might create together…” Find out more about Ronan at: https://www.ronandevlin.studio/ @ronandevlinstudio

‘Cosmos (Workington)’ Software, 2024 The first in a series of typographic portraits of places, projected onto Workington Hall, Cumbria for #HallParkLightWorks December 2024. Hundreds of symbols, drawn from Workington’s cultural heritage and contemporary landscape, perpetually interplay creating a dynamic cultural map of the area. Commissioned by @everyoneherecumberland for @cumberlandcouncil1 (Light District). Credits Direction, design, software development @ronandevlinstudio Sound @antdickinson Special Thanks to @dominicsmithstudio & @miflck for coding advice #Art #Design #LightArt #Typography #ProjectionMapping

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