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.
Chronoharp
BARANGAROO
Amigo and Amigo
2022
MACULA
Darling Harbour
Julian Reinhold/Rico Reinhold
2022
GRAVITATIONAL GRID
First Fleet Park – Sydney
Reelize Studio
2022
Vivid 2019
We worked on 60+ structures at Vivid 2019.
Ballerina
Artist: Angelo Bonello, Campbell’s Cove, 2019
ROBOT SPACELAND
Artist: XYZ Dimensions & Peewee Ferris, Darling Harbour, 2019
NOSTALGIA ABOVE
Artist: Capto Collaborative, The Rocks – Sydney, 2019
Vivid 2018
We worked on 40+ structures at Vivid 2018.
1000 CRANES
Artist: Ambient & Co, The Rocks, 2018
THE LIMINAL HOUR
Artist: Erth Visual & Physical Inc, Barangaroo, 2018
VISIBLE DYNAMICS
Artist: Dutchanee Ongarjsiri, East Circular Quay, Sydney, 2018
Chinese New Year
Design, engineering and construction of 12+ zodiac structures.
ROOSTER
Artist: Amigo & Amigo, The Sydney Opera House, Collaborators: Gorilla Constructions, 2017
THE OX
Artist: Tianli Zu, The Rocks – Sydney, Collaborators: City of Sydney. 2017
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.
NOMANSLANDING AUSTRALIA
Collaborators: Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, 2015
NOMANSLANDING GERMANY
Collaborators: Urbane Kunste Ruhr, 2015
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
1.26 TSUNAMI
1.26 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.
Woven Sky
Where: Woodford – Queensland
Artist: Wang Wen-Chih
Client: Woodford Folk Festival
Year: 2014 – 2015
Save our Souls
Where: Marks Park – Sydney
Artist: Cave Urban
Client: Sculptures by the Sea
Year: 2014
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.
Palm Tree on 10m High Pole
Where: Crown Street, Wollongong
Artist: Mike Hewson
Client: Mike Hewson
Year: 2017
Palm Tree Seat
Where: Crown Street, Wollongong
Artist: Mike Hewson
Client: Mike Hewson
Year: 2017
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
Where: Central Park – Sydney
Artist: Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford
Client: Frasers Property & Sekisui House
Year: 2010
Halo
Where: Central Park – Sydney
Artist: Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford
Client: Frasers Property & Sekisui House
Year: 2010
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.
Composer
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art – Sydney
Artist: Caroline Rothwell
Client: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Year: 2016
Cartwheeling Youngsters
Where: Rhodes Foreshore – New South Wales
Artist: Caroline Rothwell
Client: Canada Bay Council
Year: 2015
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.
Wintergarden
Where: Wintergarden, 1 O’Connell Street – Sydney
Artist: Jade Oakley
Client: Lend Lease
Year: 2016
Wintergarden
Where: Wintergarden, 1 O’Connell Street – Sydney
Artist: Jade Oakley
Client: Lend Lease
Year: 2016
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.
Macquarie Bank Commission
Where: Macquarie Bank – Martin Place, Sydney
Artist: Daniel Boyd
Client: Macquarie Group
Year: 2014
Macquarie Bank Commission
Where: Macquarie Bank – Martin Place, Sydney
Artist: Daniel Boyd
Client: Macquarie Group
Year: 2014
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.
Waterfall Beads
Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014
Waterfall Install
Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014
Waterfall Finished
Where: 180 Thomas Street Haymarket, Sydney
Artist: Lucas Grogan
Client: TransGrid
Year: 2014