The ceiling

The very high school hall ceiling where the chandelier is going to be installed.

Sketches

Day Two: Year Five make chandelier components

Day Two: Chandelier plastic bottle components

Day One: Year six making dragonflies, birds and lots of mess

Chandeliers and recycling ideas that we like!

Chandelier artists: Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker is an English sculptor and installation artist. She makes site-specific work, and is best known for large-scale installations such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), where she had a garden shed blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. In the centre was a light which cast the shadows of the wood dramatically on the walls of the room.
For her suspended piece ''Thirty Pieces of Silver,'' Ms. Parker scouted jumble sales and thrift shops for silver-plated household items -chafing dishes, candelabras, trays and trumpets. Once collected, she laid them in a road and hired a steamroller to flatten them and then hung them in the Tate Gallery.

Chandelier artists: Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. Calder, whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time. Born in a family of celebrated, though more classically trained artists, Calder utilized his innovative genius to profoundly change the course of modern art. He began by developing a new method of sculpting: by bending and twisting wire, he essentially "drew" three-dimensional figures in space. He is renowned for the invention of the mobile, whose suspended, abstract elements move and balance in changing harmony. Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheet steel. Today, these stately titans grace public plazas in cities throughout the world.

How to create a Calder Mobile

Chandelier artists: Stuart Haygarth

Artist Stuart Haygarth created a chandelier called Drop in Miami in 2007 consisting of the bases of plastic water bottles.
Stuart Haygarth said one of the repercussions of this healthy drinking culture is the fact that the empty plastic water bottles are littering our landscapes and filling up our landfill sites at an incredible rate.
Currently at airports we are not allowed to take water bottles through security check points, and thousands of empty or half-full bottles are collected.
From scaled drawings I put together a water drop shaped chandelier over 3 days. The audience was also encouraged to donate their empty water bottles just in
For Design Miami 07 I created a new piece of work for the first time, which focused on the overlooked sculptural beauty of these plastic water containers.
I cut a small detail section (the base) from approximately 1800 bottles (collected from Stansted airport, London) and placed them in a cement mixer containing sand and water. This slightly modified the visual appearance of the plastic by creating a sandblasted quality which made the plastic appear like frosted glass.
Stuart also designs chandeliers out of other materials that you can see on his website.