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The mirrors with the swing bridge visible in the foreground. The striking forms of the sound mirrors have attracted artists and photographers. British artist Tacita Dean created a film inspired by the complex. The band Turin Brakes featured the mirrors on some of their album covers.
Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. [ 1 ]
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The acoustic mirror A sketch of the acoustic mirror. Il-Widna is a large acoustic mirror located in Magħtab, Malta.' [1] The colloquial name of the acoustic mirror refers to Ear in Maltese. The mirror is 200 feet (61 m) long, approximately the same design as the sound Mirror in RAF Denge. [2]
The Maltese sound mirror is known locally as "the ear" . The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their experimental nature can be discerned by the different shapes of each of the three reflectors: one is a long curved wall about 5 m (16 ft) high by ...
Bookworks.org.uk: Tacita Dean: "Teignmouth Electron", a book of photographs of the remains of the vessel on Cayman Brac, published in 1999 Archived page from www.teignmouthelectron.org (site no longer accessible), with photographs of the boat in 1991, March 2003 and January 2004 (Ian Murray/Nicky Watson)
His work eventually led to vast parabolic 'sound mirrors' being constructed from concrete. Some of these sound mirrors still survive along England's south coast, such as those to be found at Denge , near Dungeness, to the west side of a lake slightly north of Lydd-on-Sea , and others uncovered in 2014 at Fan Bay near Dover . [ 9 ]
Cubitt Gallery and Studios, Angel Mews. Cubitt Artists is a British artist-run art gallery, artist studios and art educator, founded in 1991.Cubitt was first located in Goods Way in London's Kings Cross area, moved to Cubitt Street (from which it takes its current name), later to Caledonia Street, and is now located at Angel.