LIFE Immersive light show at St Martin-in-the-Fields

During the darkest months of the year, St Martin-in-the-Fields will host a celebration of light like no other with Life – a spectacular five day immersive light and sound experience running from Tuesday 30^th January – Saturday 3^rd February 2024.

Designed as a walking journey through earth, sea and sky, Life invites visitors to reflect upon life on today’s planet during a single 24-hour period. Using the stunning architecture of St Martin-in-the-Fields, visitors will be taken from sunrise to sunset, journeying through the beauty of planet earth, witnessing the sun, the oceans and the clouds in a dazzling show suitable for all ages.

Starting outside, the building will feature external projections which draw viewers to admire the centuries-old architecture of St Martin-in-the-Fields with spectacular imagery bringing the natural world to life and offering time to reflect on our responsibility to protect it. The colourful and immersive light experience continues inside St Martin’s atmospheric underground crypt, culminating in a sensational light show filling the whole of the Church interior.

The experience will last around 40 minutes, culminating with a 15-minute final seated sequence in the Church, however visitors may stay as long as they wish after entering to fully absorb the experience. The show will begin outside in the Courtyard and our outdoor Courtyard Café & Bar will be open for visitors to enjoy drinks before or after you have experienced the show.

Life is produced and presented by the artist and sculptor Peter Walker, Artistic Director at Luxmuralis, whose sound and light installations create the stained-glass windows of our time, bringing to life the stories and concepts of our time in a way that stained glass did generations before. With the aim of bringing art to everyone, Luxmuralis bring together the contemporary and the ancient – providing the public with access to visual artwork in unexpected places.