Local artists and contributors from around New Zealand have been selected to present their sculptures as part of LUMA Art Walk 2017. This selection of works has been curated by Andie King.
Burrow
Burrow is the entrance tunnel to Queenstown Gardens. Made up of twenty five curved aluminium light hoops leading the way and providing shelter from the darkness. Horne Creek provides a threshold into an illuminated world of art and sculpture. Cross the bridge and...
Astral Fern
Projection mapping onto Paul Dibble’s cast bronze ‘Fern’. Astral Fern is returning to LUMA 2017. The iconic Queenstown sculpture will be lit up and transformed with magical light-mapped projection taking viewers on a visual and aural journey.
Tree of Light
Tree of Light is a bespoke installation using 300 digital coconuts, each one individually addressable, working together to bring new life to a long time resident of the Gardens. These guardians of our inherited landscape span the generations and have provided a sense...
Time Traveler
Six projection screens will wrap around the iconic band rotunda displaying a choreographed sequence of short looping video, still and timelapse photography, text and animations depicting it's historic beginnings, the tales and larger then life characters and...
Our Patch
Our Patch is a magnificent and magical garden created by 150 students from Remarkables and Queenstown Primary Schools in conjunction with SILO (South Island Light Orchestra) and WHS technology teacher Rebecca Lund. After drawing inspiration via classes on the natural...
Skipping Stone
We experience a childish delight when we get a stone to skip three, four, maybe five times across the water. We secretly hope that someone else witnessed it. It is a special pleasure, similar to that of seeing a shooting star, or catching out of the corner of one’s...
A Stone’s Throw
Over the pond in the center of the Queenstown Gardens lies a small picturesque stone arch bridge. Using the bridge as a backdrop, Mapping Monday has created a textural experience that will be bought to life through projection.
Mountain of Light
Towering to a height of 4 meters, Mountain of Light is a monolithic installation, brought to life by a dramatic repertoire of lighting effects that begin with subtle changes in colour and culminate in a simulated eruption of shooting flames and molten lava. The...
Beacon
Beacon is an interactive light installation which is about to be exhibited at Wellington LUX and will be re-invented site-specific to LUMA17.“Through hand gestures alone you are given control to find the most pleasing colour harmonies according to you”. Tom Lynch, Tom...
Lumanite Grotto
Enter a world of the Luminates. These creative abstract ceramics and papermache figures are the creation of local technology students from Wakatipu High School.
Sweep
Created for Vivid Sydney 2016, Sweep slowly moves with the breeze. When viewed from a distance this work provides the illusion of suspended light rods bobbing softly and gracefully from side to side, like a school of fish in a deep current; however, when viewed up...
Extrude
Extrude is an extremely tall and imposing lighting installation designed to be viewed both at a distance and up close. From far away, the 16 translucent posts – each standing 10 metres high – form a tower with a commanding presence that acts as a beacon for the area....
UV Alley
Shipleys will be experimenting with light along this connecting corridor, come and check out some interactive light science!
Ladder of Life
Ladder of Life is a 9m high double helix sculpture made of aluminum, acrylic, and thousands of controlled light pixel fully mapped and interactive. The inspiration for this sculpture has come from the helical structure of DNA, "the ladder of life". The piece explores...
Forms
This work is a reflection on how object and landscape add up to a collective visual record. An examination of how the sometimes gentle, sometimes rough moments when these two meet, affect our experience of place. In this installation we refer to the concept of Mauri,...
Transparence
Dear Deer is the collective musical and artistic mustering of Joe Cowie and Scott Kennedy. Melding pseudo-psychodelic ambient musings into a post-rock wall of sound. Dripping with effects laden riffs, melody driven drum beats and improvisational surprises. Quiet,...
Wise Roots
Mapping Monday have created a special projection piece which personifies the 5 tall trees adjacent to the LUMA Village.
LUMA Lounge
The rose garden will be transformed into a playful environment with hospitality, live DJ's and VJ's throughout the long weekend. Come and enjoy some delicious food, refreshing beverages, get warm and have a boogie.
Mirror Mirror
A mirror ball in a forestWhere it belongsNo need for loud beatsOr fiendish rhythmsJust a rake of brightBrushing your cheekThen the limbAnd the barkBigger than the biteFrom teeth of light
Frame
Bringing light into the darkness, The Frame captures a moment in time and space.A place to reflect on the day behind you and ones in front.
Edge of the Universe
In Edge of the Universe, letters of the alphabet cascade like a waterfall between two trees in Queenstown Park. As the falling letters gain in intensity and momentum, they spell out selected lines from six poems by New Zealand writers, before disappearing into a...
Empatheia
Step outside your comfort zone, or perhaps step into it and interact with empatheia. Please keep in mind at all times that it's not just about you, there are others to consider, always. And remember, if you want to find the secrets of empatheia, think in terms of...
Into The Underscore
Into the Underscore was designed by Anita Dykes from ECC using iGuzzini Underscore in/out product. Working in collaboration with Michael Warwick from Maw Design, Mike Ainsworth and Dorian Minty with support from Ullrich Aluminium and The Tag Agency. A series of...
Fragments
Angus is creating a bespoke art installation in the Earnslaw Park willow tree, the piece creates a skeletal framework, creating random lines and intersections of light.
Flame Entertainment
We welcome back Flame Entertainment this year to bring their amazing characters to the Queenstown Gardens. FLAME Entertainment is a performance art company based in Queenstown for over 15 years. They specialize in creating visual spectacles thru various circus, dance,...
