YOU may have seen Jason Bruges Studios' work previously. His team was responsible for The Shard's light display on New Year's Eve in London in 2014.

Now Bruges is coming to York for the 2016 Illuminating York festival, where his Light Masonry installation can be seen in the Nave of York Minster from October 26 to 29 in timed slots on the half hour from 6.30pm to 9:30pm.

Whereas, the Minster's external edifice has provided wonders aplenty at past Illuminating York festivals, Jason has moved inside, working within the Minster to create a 20-minute sequence of moving lights that "carve out"' space within the building rather than the stone walls that enclose it. In effect, he is working as a "light mason" as opposed to a stone mason.

"This is the first time we've been involved in Illuminating York," says Jason, whose studio is in Old Street, London. "We were commissioned by the festival, but we also had to pitch for it, responding to the Minster by creating something site-specific.

"So we brainstormed our ideas as to what to do and I was struck by how the Minster was still being crafted with the stone masons still doing their incredible work. We thought we should create something ephemeral to complement what they do."

The result is an installation that will use sequences of powerful moving lights and a specially created mist to carve shapes and movement out of the cavernous space of the Nave. Forty eight light beams will play around and above the audience as they walk up the aisle at night in an "immersive experience" to the accompaniment of organ music.

Does Jason feel extra pressure creating an installation for York's most famous building? "There's always a good pressure in creating insightful, impactful site-specific work," he says. "To put it into context, we're used to creating pieces for interesting places, like the top of The Shard for New's Year's Eve.

"We create both permanent and temporary pieces, like this one for York Minster, which is like a short run for a theatre, where a show has got to be amazing for a few days and there's only a short time to make it even better each night."

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How Jason Bruges's Light Masonry will look in the Nave of York Minster

Formed in 2002, Jason Bruges Studio design and build interactive installations that "create innovative and engaging spaces which connect people with their environment". They develop and deliver bespoke projects worldwide, such as a public artwork for a new development in Toronto, Canada; a series of interactive resources for Tate Modern; a temporary door for Number 10 Downing Street and a "distraction piece" for Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for children en route to surgery.

"We're internationally renowned for producing innovative installations, interventions and ground breaking works," says Jason. "This practice involves creating interactive spaces and surfaces that sit between the world of architecture, site specific installation art and interaction design."

Now, for four nights, the focus falls on Jason's "intervention" at York Minster that will use all the magnificence of the Nave. with the added glory of new music. "As the piece has progressed and developed, we've been interacting with with the Minster organ players to create an accompanying soundscape," says Jason. "There'll be 'sweet spots' with the best views of the installation, but we want people to move around the Nave, experiencing it from different places."

York Minster joins a diverse list of locations for Jason Bruges Studio's work, from Glasgow and Edinburgh to Dallas and Boston, from Stockholm and northern Denmark, to Sunderland and London. Coming next will be Preston, but from Wednesday to Saturday, Jason Bruges will be shedding a very different new light on York.

Illuminating York runs from October 26 to 29. For the full festival programme, visit illuminatingyork.org.uk. Please note, Light Masonry at York Minster is a paid for and ticketed event.