Lee Broom: Beacon, 2025

Beacon invites you to pause outside the Royal Festival Hall and reflect for a moment on this monumental chandelier of light. 

Created by designer and artist Lee Broom (born 1976), it takes inspiration from the Queen’s Walk street lamps, the surrounding brutalist architecture and the 1951 Festival of Britain, celebrated as a ‘beacon of change’.

On the hour, as Big Ben strikes across the river, the installation’s illuminated shades come to life. What begins as a gentle, poetic pulse intensifies into a sweeping crescendo of light.

With support from Materials Assemble, the sustainable structure’s glass elements are crafted at Brokis’ renowned Czech factory using a special fusing technology that upcycles discarded glass fragments into radiant new forms. 

After the exhibition, the recycled glass shades will find new lives as functional artworks and be reconfigured into individual table lamps for the home, with part of the proceeds from their sale going to charity.