Jonathan Yeo Studio vs The Storm Cone

Jonathan Yeo Studio is an experimental AR app which invites the user inside the studio of one of the world’s leading portraitists, witness him painting the chef and campaigner Jamie Oliver over FaceTime and explore multiple forms of interactive content throughout the space. Reversing the standard Augmented Reality device of overlaying a 3D object in your physical space, here the space itself becomes the object. This is a unique opportunity to glimpse the artist’s working methods, watch a brand new type of portrait practice, and hear some of the intimate and entertaining conversation which ensues. It also allows the user to freely move around the space and record their own photos and videos as if they were in the real studio. A secondary gallery space has been added to the experience providing an opportunity for users to see the back catalogue of Jonathan’s paintings in an exhibition format, with further interactive content to be found. This app has been developed and realised in-house by Jonathan Yeo and his team. We will continue to update the app with new elements so please do check in again, and send us any suggestions, thoughts or feedback. _______________________________________________________ Features - Augmented reality app that allows you to experience the enchanting and unique painting studio of one of the world’s leading portrait painters (in full 3D not just 360 capture) - Eavesdrop on the previously unseen and private world of the portrait sitting with some entertaining insights - Visit the connected gallery space to see an exhibition of Jonathan’s most famous portraits and an introduction to his sculptural work - Explore the entire app for further pieces of interactive content. These include video excerpts of other FaceTime Portrait sessions with sitters such as Professor Brian Cox, Film Director Dexter Fletcher and Broadcaster Fearne Cotton - See the studio in your home environment and capture photographs and video content to share with others. The app also overlays images of people in your space to make it appear they are in the studio - Experience the studio as a “doll’s house” or at immersive full scale as if you are actually in the room - Easy to navigate UI/UX - Simple finger gestures help to explore the AR environment - Conceived and designed entirely by Jonathan Yeo’s studio with all UI elements hand drawn by the artist - Designed for phones and tablets - Direct feedback enabled - Video capture works best on iPhone 10 and above

The Storm Cone is an immersive artwork by artist Laura Daly, with new music composition by Lucy Pankhurst, that reveals the lost bandstands in our municipal parks and explores their forgotten histories. At its centre is a journey through music and sound that considers our relationship with the past, while charting the fading away of a brass band during the interwar years (1918-1939). The Storm Cone is experienced in the park setting, through a free app and using headphones. Initially it immerses the visitor in the 360 sound of a band performing as a full ensemble in the park. Moving amongst the absent bandsmen, the audience will hear the detail of every instrument, before following the departed musicians into eight spatial sound works, where solo musical phrases merge into new environments. The Storm Cone will be located on the site of the original bandstand in Peel Park, Salford. It will also be presented at NetPark in Chalkwell Park, Southend, as part of Estuary 2021. The music for The Storm Cone is a newly commissioned composition. Lucy Pankhurst worked closely with Laura Daly to evolve musical themes and phrases that reflect the artist’s ideas and narrative for the overall project. She has created an innovative and contemporary score that utilises sound spatialising technologies to move music around the listener; with instruments calling and responding across the ‘bandstand’. The resulting piece is sculptural in its approach. Students, staff and friends of The University of Salford performed and recorded the commission. For many of the younger musicians it was their first recording session. It was the only live music performance at the University. The sound works bring together vocal contributions from a wide range of people including the University’s drama and music students and Manchester choir, Chorus of Others. The title of the work comes from Rudyard Kipling’s 1932 poem that forewarned of the Second World War. It considers key aspects of the interwar period and the ensuing break-up and reshaping of communities. Serving as warning shot, The Storm Cone contemplates the residual impact of this time and the cyclical nature of history in terms of current events, including the economic downturn and rise of populism, extremism, racism and antisemitism. It is also a commemoration of creative legacy. The resulting experience is an artwork that is imbued with a sense of both loss and celebration, underlining human strength and fragility. The Storm Cone is commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Metal in collaboration with Salford Culture and Place Partnership on the occasion of Rediscovering Salford. Generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Also supported by PN Daly Ltd, Zinc and Copper Roofing, Southend on Sea Borough Council, and Goldsmiths.