OUR WORK
These are a selection works we have created for various events, festivals and locations.
LUMA Southern Light Project
LUMA is an annual sensory experience bringing together illuminated art, light sculpture, performance and community in Queenstown, New Zealand. The SILO creative team is the brain trust behind LUMA, We work year round to plan the event, and in conjunction with the LUMA...
Love Luma
Lead Artist: Tim Buckley We wanted to create an “Instagram Moment” element for LUMA 2021. With the help of Angus Muir Design on fabrication, we came up with a fun concept that could be placed on the waterfront creating a beautiful setting for photographs and helping...
Breath – Manawa Ora
Lead Artists: Dan Move 8m wide, 1.2m high luminous word breathe, together with 32 uplights pulsing in and out in timing with the ideal breathing cycle, deep in the forest. Created 2019
Queenstown Central Christmas Tree 2021
Lead Artist: Simon Holden Each year we have the pleasure of creating a new look for their Christmas tree situated just off state highway 6. The creative brief is fairly open, we try to keep the look fresh and interesting with daytime and night time appeal. This year...
Light Up Cromwell – 2020/2021
We have been helping to illuminate Light Up Cromwell since 2019 as part of our commitment to supporting regional community events. This fun family event is run entirely by volounteers, and we love being part it. Each year we help to light up the central Cromwell mall,...
Materiki 2021 – Wanaka
Lead Artists: Simon Holden and Luke Baldock Each year we support the Wanaka Matariki Celebrations as part of our commitment to giving back to the regional community. This year we created a new piece; a whirl of colour generated real time using 32 1m light bars create...
Feels
Feels was created to communicate some of the sentiment around lock downs, our future and about the general unease and sometimes challenging times we have all experienced. It is a 6 part large scale LED piece that delivers these messages in bright bold colours. ...
Queenstown Central Christmas Tree 19/20
Each year we create a bespoke dressing for the Queenstown Central shopping complex Christmas tree. In 2019 we used 18 custom made fully addressable strands of festoon together with acrylic shapes and an adressable neon star for the top. In 2020 we used 18 x 5m LED...
Trilogy
Lead Artist: Simon Holden Trilogy is an interactive light installation. The sculpture has three large fully interactive light surfaces. Each pillar has its own unique sound and light elements elements, and together they create a crescendo light effects that come from...
Phonogram
Lead Artist: Simon Holden Phonogram is the predesesor in technology to Trilogy. An interactive IR light frame sat millimeters in front of 128 light modules. Participants cross the threshhold of the IR frame triggering both light and 128 different sounds. Light...
Ripple
Lead Artist: Simon Holden Interactive fluid dynamic projection, participants move their hands within within the touch frame, and in front of them fluid shapes created real time are projecting patterns on the trees, allowing participants to interact with the light on...
Ladder of Life
Lead Artist: Simon Holden Interactive double DNA strand. This was one of our first light projects, each rung on the ladder was hand soldered. Interactivity was very simple, with participants pushing a single red button triggering ripples of light up the ladder,...