‘The Wax Room’
‘A total immersion in incredibly intricate light and colour
This is a contained area measuring 4 metres by 8 metres by 3 metres high. All surfaces are faced with wax and resin laminate panels with lighting from behind. This is the background for three separate 20-25 minute shows in sound and vision, to be first shown at the Edinburgh Fringe, at the Wax Room venue, Middle Meadow Walk, Meadows, Edinburgh. 4th Auigust-31st August
The festival has now finished and here is what visitors and media said about the 'Wax Room'.........
Volcanoes
We are now hoping to site it permanently.......................
So if you can think of anywhere please let me know................mailto:kenthewaxroom@btconnect.com
Back to the Garden ( Main Show 5 – 10pm) Talks and Events Section
Saturate in the intense colour and light of 108 square metres of intricate millefiore wax designs. This unique masterpiece provides a changing illustration as you are taken on a trip through life, the universe and everything.
Snow-Wall
All Things Wax and Wonderful (Kids 10am – 2pm) Children’s Shows
An audio-visual, interactive, history and cosmology. A geologic extravaganza featuring volcanoes, big skies, deserts, and forests. Candles, lampshades - and a free sample from the secret wax-mine - for all ages.
Review from 'List' Detail from Sea-Wall
The Wax Room (2.30pm – 4.30 pm) Visual Arts
Bask in this uniquely innovative wax masterpiece of light and colour, as it glows through its floor, ceiling and walls.
Ken Parsons talks about the thrills, spills and bellyaches of its 30-year gestation period.
Detail from Carboniferous Forest
Set in a spacious marquee in the middle of the meadows, The Wax Room is a spectacular art-work that swallows up to 25 people at a time. Visitors are guaranteed to re-emerge, but will they ever be the same?
Tickets are all £4.50, concessions and group bookings (10 or over)£3.00.
Children for 'All Things Wax and Wonderful' £2.50
'Fest' magazine
Ring 01721 723033/07799778285 to book direct
oremail kenthewaxroom@btconnect.co.uk
or The Fringe Office
0131 226 5257
email admin@edfringe.com
15 sq. metre ceiling exported to Sapporo, Japan.
Model
of wooden framework to support wax and resin panels.
Also, we are looking for a measure of private funding for this so if you or someone you know might be interested -even in a group sponsorship of 1 sq. metre of panel (£300) say- we can send you more details. See
guest book or email.