Mark Sutton Vane
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Mark Sutton Vane was born in London and studied architecture at the University of Westminster. Mark started work at the Laserium in the London Planetarium. Here he used a visual synthesiser to perform laser light shows to music. He created new shows for the public and private shows for musicians like Kate Bush and Jean Michel Jarre.
In 1989 Mark moved into architectural lighting design. He worked for two lighting design practices before starting Sutton Vane Associates in 1995. Sutton Vane Associates has grown to become a respected lighting design practice. It has lit churches, cathedrals, retail environments, commercial projects, leisure attractions, offices and hotels all over the world. Mark wrote the lighting master plans for Portsmouth and Liverpool. The practice lit HMS Victory, The National Museum of Ireland, The National Museum of Saudi Arabia, “The First Emperor - China’s terracotta army” at The British Museum, The Roundhouse and Sheffield’s Sheaf Square. The practice's lighting of the Museum of Country Life in Ireland is a case study in Daylighting: Natural Light in Architecture by Derek Philips, 2004, Architectural Press, p168-169. Mark was the lighting consultant for the London Eye and in 2001 lit St Paul's Cathedral in red light for World Aids Day, featured on the front cover of The Lit Environment by Derek Philips.
Lighting magazine ranked the practice in the top ten. The practice has won many awards including:
2008 – Lighting Design Awards Llandaff Cathedral. Winner. Heritage
2008 – Lighting Design Awards The First Emperor, China’s Terracotta Warriors. Shortlisted
2005 - The Lighting Design Awards Athlone Civic Offices. Winner. Exterior Lighting
2005 - Local Government News Liverpool City Centre Lighting. Winner, Public Lighting Award
2005 - Local Government News Queens Gardens, Warrington Runner Up, Public Lighting Award
2002 - The Lighting Design Awards Portsmouth Harbour Renaissance Winner, Community Lighting
2000 - Design Sense The Tsola light Shortlisted,
2000 - Millennium Product The Tsola light
Mark has lectured at ARC 07, Cityscape 2008 Conference, Euroluce, Milan 2007, he regularly writes articles and gives master classeson lighting design all over the world.
Mark is a grandson of Sutton Vane, the noted playwright.
