Tail Light, 2007
Further information
Further information
Winner! Elle Decoration award 2008.
Even as a commercial photographer, crafting book covers and photo- montages for clients including Esquire, Daimler-Chrysler and Penguin, Haygarth would arrange objects and materials into spectacular collages before photographing the tableaux for print.
Born in Whalley, Lancashire in 1966, Haygarth studied graphic design at Exeter College of Art and Design before starting his career in photography. His first lighting designs in 2005 were a series of exquisite chandeliers constructed from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life ranging from discarded objects washed up on the Kent coastline to a collection of millennial Party Poppers.
For Tail Light, Haygarth has transformed the tail lights of collated industrial vehicles into towers of light. Haygarth's sculptural chandeliers are a reappraisal of an object that is seen everyday on roads across the globe, but rarely appreciated for the geometric patterns or the ambient light created. As Haygarth says, 'my work revolves around everyday objects, collected in large quantities, categorized and presented so that they are given new meaning. It is about giving banal and overlooked objects new significance'.
Even as a commercial photographer, crafting book covers and photo- montages for clients including Esquire, Daimler-Chrysler and Penguin, Haygarth would arrange objects and materials into spectacular collages before photographing the tableaux for print.
Born in Whalley, Lancashire in 1966, Haygarth studied graphic design at Exeter College of Art and Design before starting his career in photography. His first lighting designs in 2005 were a series of exquisite chandeliers constructed from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life ranging from discarded objects washed up on the Kent coastline to a collection of millennial Party Poppers.
For Tail Light, Haygarth has transformed the tail lights of collated industrial vehicles into towers of light. Haygarth's sculptural chandeliers are a reappraisal of an object that is seen everyday on roads across the globe, but rarely appreciated for the geometric patterns or the ambient light created. As Haygarth says, 'my work revolves around everyday objects, collected in large quantities, categorized and presented so that they are given new meaning. It is about giving banal and overlooked objects new significance'.
