Lightpool Open Call 2025

We warmly invite talented individuals and teams from across the UK to present their innovative proposals for an engaging light artwork that has the power to captivate and inspire audiences of all ages.

This is a fantastic platform for both established light art professionals and emerging talents to showcase their creativity and artistic vision. We strongly encourage participation and invite you to submit your imaginative ideas that could contribute to making this festival a truly unforgettable experience for everyone involved.

We are interested in:

• New works exploring light.
• Projects which use technology in innovative ways to encourage play
  and exploration.
• Sustainable light art which uses Green Energy solutions.

We are looking for artworks that are:

• Suitable for outdoor light festivals.
• Artistically challenging/interesting and of high quality.
• Structurally resilient enough to withstand the winter weather.
• Considered accessible for all.

We’re particularly interested to see applications that consider:

• Environmental sustainability in their design and embody best practice in their delivery.
• Design artworks for reuse – materials/equipment – building onto what happens at the end of the festival.
• Encouraging novel and artistically ambitious ideas.

BUDGET

• An artist fee of £5,000
• Support from Lightpool and Lightworks to realise the idea
• Production/materials/fabrication costs up to £15,000

The intellectual property of the artwork remains with the artist, the physical ownership will be transferred to Lightpool on completion of the artwork.