The free award-winning festival is founded by Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District (BID) in partnership with Redcliffe & Temple BID and Cabot Circus (festival Artwork Partner) and curated by multi award-winning Creative Director, Katherine Jewkes.
Bristol Light Festival will return for 10 days of dazzling light-based artworks to brighten up the darkest nights of January and February at Bristol City Centre from Friday (January 31).
Ahead of the grand event, we have compiled a gallery of all past installations. Scroll through to travel back in time and see how far the festival has come.
1. Frame Perspective - 2020
The piece by acclaimed French visual artist Oliver Ratsi consists of a series of wood and LED frames, which experiment with natural perspectives, enhanced by an organic light composition, gently pulsating to feel like a breath or a wave. | Andre Pattenden
2. Wildlife on the Waterfront - 2020
Created by local charity Send a Cow and Bristol's award winning Limbic Cinema, Wildlife on the Waterfront tells the tale of the people and wildlife of Uganda's oldest national park in a bespoke projections and is part of the Living with Wildlife appeal, protecting people and wildlife in Uganda. | Andre Pattenden
3. Cheers Drive - 2020
The four-foot neon sign with the famous Bristolian phrase 'Cheers Drive' was created in celebration of the city and its unique ways. The installation is now permanently installed at Bristol Bus Station after being gifted to the key workers of Bristol during the pandemic. | Andre Pattenden
4. Neighbours - 2020
Neighbours is a celebration of Bristol's residents and how we interact with each other as a diverse community. Bristol-based street artists and illustrators Inkie, Jasmine Thompson, Parys Gardener and Zoë Power were commissioned to show what they think the neighbours are up to next door to Banksy's famous Well Hung Lover on Park Street. | Andre Pattenden