The 2017 LUMA Southern Light Project, was a free community event which lit up Queenstown Gardens for four nights of art, showcasing a selection of unique light sculptures and installations from both local and international artists. The magical weekend brought...
What’s it like to be responsible for ensuring Queenstown’s biggest art and light festival is 100% up and running? We catch up with Simon Holden to find out… First of all, what is LUMA… LUMA is a free arts and light festival in Queenstown, taking place on the 2nd - 5th...
The central tree of the rose gardens is a special place, even more so with the help of thousands of mapped light pixels twinkling throughout its canopy. You might want to stay a while!
Produced by: Matt Chapman, Masha Erjavec, James Holman, Ash Povall Filmed by: James Holman Drone footage by: Tony Young Edited by: Masha Erjavec
About David’s video… I studied Graphic Design in the UK which lead me to become a web designer for the first 10 years of my professional working life. Photography and video was always a passion of mine though so, when I moved to Queenstown seven years ago, I used the...
Wow, what a weekend! LUMA Queenstown 2016 brought magic to the Gardens over Queen’s Birthday Weekend (3rd – 5th June). The free light festival showcased a selection of art sculptures, light installations and illuminations. Thrown into the mix was a lounge area...
Artists: Angus Muir Design & AJ Design Co. Video Production: Shotover Media
Hopefully, you didn’t miss out on all the amazing light installations that appeared along Queenstown’s waterfront in June, but if you did here’s a chance to re-live some of that magic with the official video! LUMA is Queenstown’s very first light festival and this...
The Pilot Project of the LUMA festival took place on 24th-28th of June this year in Queenstown NZ, with several areas of the CBD and lake shore getting lit up by some remarkable art installations. I took some interpretative shots of two of them, ‘Field’ and ‘Shroud’,...
Lighting up Queenstown during this year’s Winter Festival was a flash of The Southern Light Project, ‘LUMA’. The pilot project showcased the work of Auckland based designers Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney ahead of next year’s fully fledged festival set to be held in...
Tilt is an evolution. Taking geometric themes to provide a colonnade welcoming the viewer into the world of LUMA..Angus Muir creates moments. Specialising in atmospheric architecture, Muir’s work is dedicated to conceiving and executing contemporary, immersive...
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...
5 triangular arches 4.5m high frame. Each arch consisting of 120 RGB pixels, or digitally controllable lights with custom sequences changing colour, pattern and pulse.
A window into another dimension through the leaves of a fern brought to life with light. Projection mapping project of Paul Dibble’s cast bronze ‘Fern’. Installation by the Mapping Mondays.
SILO and Angus Muir collaborated on this bespoke piece developed specifically for LUMA 2016. The piece was designed with the hexagonal shape of the rotunda in mind. The sculpture is made up of 168 LED globes suspended in a dome shape, each light is individually...
Projection mapping project of Fleur.
Digital takeover of this historic glass house using the classic “peppers ghost” technique.
Comprising 21 mirror posts, 2.4m tall, set out over a 25 square metre space. The design aimed to showcase and celebrate its location. By day the intense grid of mirrors celebrates its environment, creating an analogue interaction with the viewer. By night the posts...
Array is an interactive sculpture that explores the relationship between the mass and the void, intertwining this with audience interactivity. Commissioned for Vivid Sydney 2014 – this was the first time it had been exhibited in the South Island.
PULSE refers to the Pulse of Nature (environmental dynamics), the Pulse of Life (blood flowing through our veins), and the Pulse of Time (eternity). The Pulse connects all cultures around the world. It connects us to our natural environment. It is universal to us all.
The large 9m long tubes are packed with 120 RGB high power pixels and programmed lighting effects connect the two tubes. Designed to celebrate and illuminate the spaces they inhabit.
60 ground-based PAR64 uplights, each individually addressed allowing the installation to be mapped to hand movements, giving the user control to create waves of different intensity all whilst creating their own soundtrack.
The LUMA Lounge was a music and hospitality area nestled under a canopy of ever-changing light, projection, and illumination and DJ's. Produced by SILO and TOM TOM productions, in conjunction with the World Bar Queenstown