Temporary & Permanent Artwork

At Event Engineering, we specialise in designing, engineering, and constructing temporary and permanent public artworks. Our projects include high-profile events like Vivid Sydney 2022 and collaborations with artists like Janet Echelman and Daniel Boyd. From Chinese New Year zodiac structures to the kinetic Halo sculpture, we bring artistic visions to life, enhancing the cultural landscape.

Vivid 2022

We are proud to have collaborated with all of the Vivid Sydney.

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Sydney Container Walls for Blue & Green Screens

Chronoharp

BARANGAROO
Amigo and Amigo
2022

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

MACULA

Darling Harbour
Julian Reinhold/Rico Reinhold
2022

Pacific Rim 2 Container Walls for Filming

GRAVITATIONAL GRID

First Fleet Park – Sydney
Reelize Studio
2022

Vivid 2019

We worked on 60+ structures at Vivid 2019.

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

Ballerina

Artist: Angelo Bonello, Campbell’s Cove, 2019

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

ROBOT SPACELAND

Artist: XYZ Dimensions & Peewee Ferris, Darling Harbour, 2019

Pacific Rim 2 Container Walls for Filming

NOSTALGIA ABOVE

Artist: Capto Collaborative, The Rocks – Sydney, 2019

Vivid 2018

We worked on 40+ structures at Vivid 2018.

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

1000 CRANES

Artist: Ambient & Co, The Rocks, 2018

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

THE LIMINAL HOUR

Artist: Erth Visual & Physical Inc, Barangaroo, 2018

Pacific Rim 2 Container Walls for Filming

VISIBLE DYNAMICS

Artist: Dutchanee Ongarjsiri, East Circular Quay, Sydney, 2018

Chinese New Year

Design, engineering and construction of 12+ zodiac structures.

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

ROOSTER

Artist: Amigo & Amigo, The Sydney Opera House, Collaborators: Gorilla Constructions, 2017

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

THE OX

Artist: Tianli Zu, The Rocks – Sydney, Collaborators: City of Sydney. 2017

Pacific Rim 2 Container Walls for Filming

THE HORSE

Artist: Qian Jian Hua, The Rocks – Sydney, Collaborators: City of Sydney, 2017

Nomanslanding

Nomanslanding is a major public artwork by five international artists, Robyn Backen, Andre Dekker (+ Observatorium), Graham Eatough, Nigel Helyer and Jennifer Turpin.

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

NOMANSLANDING AUSTRALIA

Collaborators: Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, 2015

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

NOMANSLANDING GERMANY

Collaborators: Urbane Kunste Ruhr, 2015

Pacific Rim 2 Container Walls for Filming

NORMANSLANDING SCOTLAND

Collaborators: Glasgow Life/Merchant City Festival, 2017

Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman is an artist who defies categorisation. She creates experiential sculptures at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. Where: Sydney Town Hall, Client: City of Sydney & Art & About Festival, 2011

Aerial Photo of Film Production in Queensland Container Walls

1.26 TSUNAMI

Janet Echelman tSunami Townhall

1.26 TSUNAMI

Janet Echelman tsunami

1.26 TSunami

Cave Urban

Cave Urban are an international collective formed in 2010 to investigate vernacular lightweight structures and their relevance to contemporary design.

Cave Urban Woven Sky

Woven Sky

Where: Woodford – Queensland
Artist:
Wang Wen-Chih
Client: Woodford Folk Festival
Year: 2014 – 2015

Cave Urban Save Our Souls

Save our Souls

Where: Marks Park – Sydney
Artist: 
Cave Urban
Client: Sculptures by the Sea
Year: 2014

Save Our Souls Near Kin Kin

Near Kin Kin

Where: Customs House Square – Sydney
Artist:
Cave Urban
Client: City of Sydney
Year: 2015

Permanent Public Artwork

Illawarra Placed Landscape

This series of crooked palm trees, massive boulders and the centre piece – a large palm tree fixed to the top of a 10m high pole, is part of Wollongong Council’s public artwork project.

Halo Maintenance

Palm Tree on 10m High Pole

Where: Crown Street, Wollongong
Artist:
Mike Hewson
Client: Mike Hewson
Year: 2017

Halo Kinetic Structure

Palm Tree Seat

Where: Crown Street, Wollongong
Artist:
Mike Hewson
Client: Mike Hewson
Year: 2017

Halo at Night

Palm Tree on 10m High Pole

Where: Crown Street, Wollongong
Artist:
Mike Hewson
Client: Mike Hewson
Year: 2017

Halo

Halo is a wind-powered kinetic sculpture in Central Park Sydney. It consists of a 12-metre diameter tapered yellow ring held by a 6 metre long silver cantilevered arm pivoting off-centre atop a 13 metre high angled silver mast.

Halo Maintenance

Halo Maintenance

Where: Central Park – Sydney
Artist: 
Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford
Client: Frasers Property & Sekisui House
Year: 2010

Halo Kinetic Structure

Halo

Where: Central Park – Sydney
Artist: 
Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford
Client: Frasers Property & Sekisui House
Year: 2010

Halo at Night

Halo at Night

Where: Central Park – Sydney
Artist: 
Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford
Client: Frasers Property & Sekisui House
Year: 2010

Caroline Rothwell

Caroline creates a fictional world, a geographical non place, populated by strange hybrid plants, animals and people, imagined but logical consequence of real world actions.

Caroline Rothwell's The Composer at MCA Sydney

Composer

Where: Museum of Contemporary Art – Sydney
Artist:
Caroline Rothwell
Client: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Year: 2016

Caroline Rothwell's Cartwheeling Youngsters

Cartwheeling Youngsters

Where: Rhodes Foreshore – New South Wales
Artist:
Caroline Rothwell
Client: Canada Bay Council
Year: 2015

Caroline Rothwell's Cartwheeling Youngsters

Cartwheeling Youngsters

Where: Rhodes Foreshore – New South Wales
Artist:
Caroline Rothwell
Client: Canada Bay Council
Year: 2015

Jade Oakley

Jade creates work of an intimate scale in delicate materials such as paper and silk, the kinetic beauty of her work is imminently suited to large scale public applications.

Jade Oakley's Wintergarden Structure

Wintergarden

Where: Wintergarden, 1 O’Connell Street – Sydney
Artist:
Jade Oakley
Client: Lend Lease
Year: 2016

Jade Oakley's Wintergarden Structure

Wintergarden

Where: Wintergarden, 1 O’Connell Street – Sydney
Artist:
Jade Oakley
Client: Lend Lease
Year: 2016

Jade Oakley's Wintergarden Structure

Wintergarden

Where: Wintergarden, 1 O’Connell Street – Sydney
Artist:
Jade Oakley
Client: Lend Lease
Year: 2016

Daniel Boyd

Daniel Boyd reinterprets Eurocentric perspectives of Australian history, often appropriating images that have played significant roles in the formation and dissemination of that history.

Daniel Boyd Macquarie Bank Dots

Macquarie Bank Commission

Where: Macquarie Bank – Martin Place, Sydney
Artist: Daniel Boyd
Client: Macquarie Group
Year: 2014

Daniel Boyd Macquarie Bank Dots

Macquarie Bank Commission

Where: Macquarie Bank – Martin Place, Sydney
Artist: Daniel Boyd
Client: Macquarie Group
Year: 2014

Daniel Boyd Macquarie Bank Dots

Macquarie Bank Commission

Where: Macquarie Bank – Martin Place, Sydney
Artist: Daniel Boyd
Client: Macquarie Group
Year: 2014

Lucas Grogan

Australian artist Lucas Grogan draws on aboriginal Australian crafts as inspiration in his artworks.

Lucas Grogan Waterfalls Beads Installation

Waterfall Beads

Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014

Lucas Grogan Waterfalls Beads Installation

Waterfall Install

Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014

Lucas Grogan Waterfalls Beads Installed

Waterfall Finished

Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014

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