Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

Founded in 1947, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) hosts a range of varied events as an alternative to the Royal Academy, a place where the avant-garde was invited to engage with the pressing issues of the day, the likes of Steve McQueen who was an early exhibitor and in 1976 it hosted the legendary Clash concert. 

EPS Lighting was commissioned to design a flexible lighting solution for the institutes three galleries. The Technical Director for EPS Lighting Russell Vandstone commented that they worked with the architects to find a clean, modern and minimalist solution to meet the design brief.

• Making the light levels meet requirement was most important, but the art was a vital consideration.
• The design team had to ensure any light directed onto artwork would not have any harmful UV effects, degrading the work over time.
• White 4000K Linear LED luminaires were the ideal solution to meet those objectives.
• The clever and flexible part is all in the custom control solution and interface using a Pharos TPC and various RIO D’s which were built to enable the circulation area lights that were to be left on full power.
• With a site-wide DALI control network that resides on their local LAN (Local Area Network), the Pharos RIO Ds helped to communicate and control the lighting solution. This also has a 24/7/365 link into EPS Lighting’s data centre for remote access, assistance with programming and upgrades with a guaranteed SLA (service level agreement) for remote management and changes if and when required.

Project Credits:EPS Lighting and Hadler
Photos: © EPS Lighting