Luke sure knows how to throw one hell of a birthday party… and so the story begins. With a background rooted in architecture, design, and events, Luke is as much of a doer as he is a dreamer, bringing creative ideas to life with the help of friends and family. When not working (which seems to be more often than not), you’ll find him playing with light and lending a hand to create memorable moments at backyard bashes to events and festivals all over New Zealand.

Tim is a graphic designer, brand manager, strategist and tea-boy at Queenstown’s longest serving creative agency, Fluid. Tim was lured towards the lights after a tap on the shoulder from one of LUMA’s instigators right at the start, and has been resisting the darkness ever since. Event promotion has been part of his repertoire since he put together the gig posters for his high-school band The Hairy Marshmellows (you might not have heard of them); this was the start of Tim’s first marketing venture (aged fifteen).

Simon loves making cool stuff, from interactive led sculptures, lattice light canopies, bespoke projection mapping, led costumes, adding in sound and creativity and a sprinkle of magic. Our LUMA super tech, you’ll also find him contributing his skills around NZ to events such as Splore on the install team, at Taniwha’s Den lighting up trees and dropping beats, or maybe even at his day job automating flash-as houses all around Queenstown.

Duncan can be found during the day managing the graffiti strewn Mount Edward Winery, one the most progressive winemakers in New Zealand. By night the six time attendee of the alternative arts festival Burning Man focuses his creative energies on all things LUMA as part of the creative collective behind the event. For his sins he is also the LUMA Trust chair-elect, in his words not only as he was the last one to put his hand up but because frankly the others shouldn’t be allowed out that often in public. 

Driven for success, Craig has used Summit Events as the platform to deliver iconic events all around New Zealand. Raced the Motutapu? Competed at the NZ Rural Games? Ever seen Fat Freddys or UB40 in Queenstown? Summit Events provides the full package and is the reason why LUMA delivers to an international standard as a major event in NZ. Give it up for Craig, the coolest of heads when LUMA is running and to be honest probably when it isn’t as well.

Janey we love you and do everything that you say! Consultant to a wide variety of events in New Zealand over the last 13 years, Janey runs our H&S, ticketing, manages our staff on site and generally keeps us on the straight and narrow when needed, no mean feat….. I mean start with 126,000 light bulbs, 2 kms of cabling, a few thousand volts and all of us, ‘work cut out’ is the expression……. 

Celine is a familiar face at events across New Zealand, from R&A and Splore to Pride Wānaka and Ripe, among others. In between events she works as Event and Project coordinator for Wastebuters Wānaka where she looks after projects like Repair Revolution and ReAction.

In 2023, she joined the Luma team. As a member of the site and operations crew she helps out with the site set up and operations oversight during Luma’s events. Additionally Celine is the Leap Coordinator, where she manages the application and decision making process and the artist liaison side of things.

As you can tell, she’s quite active in the events industry but what her actual purpose is, is to ride as many site vehicles and wear as many different hats (literally and figuratively) as possible, while wearing a radio,across paddocks in NZ.