Enlightenment: Durham International Light Festival

North East artist George Robson has presented Enlightenment festival organisers with a traditional miner’s helmet to mark the completion of one of four spectacular light installations destined for Durham this autumn.

The helmet was donated by Durham Mining Heritage Centre and presented on the same day that the Indian artwork began its epic passage to North East England.

Light of Darkness by Indian artist Sanchayan Ghosh will comprise two shining eyes suspended under the arches of Durham’s historic Framwellgate Bridge, celebrating the county’s mining and industrial past with more than 300 helmets making up the glowing iris of each eye.