Mandylights has global experience in the design of bespoke, sensitive and spectacular immersive walks in outdoor locations. Utilising a mix of world-class illuminated artworks, class-leading site and natural lighting and considered music composition, Mandylights transforms parks, forests and botanic gardens into nocturnal wonderlands.
Immersive Outdoor Projects
We celebrate
nature…
Our work seeks to celebrate and accentuate the natural environment; encouraging the public to experience spectacular locations in a new light. Theatrical lighting, artworks and immersive technologies illuminate the natural landscape in a considered way that never seeks to replace the outstanding beauty of a site – instead augmenting the visitor experience with new colours and treatments that enchant and create a sense of wonder.
… and respect
all environments
Mandylights has demonstrated experience in working in highly sensitive natural environments, including in and around UNESCO World Heritage sites, throughout important National Parks and in some of the world’s most beautiful and respected Botanic Gardens in Australia, the USA and United Kingdom.
We seek to engage with all local stakeholders – including traditional owners and First Nations people – to create respectful, meaningful and locally-connected experiences. This includes consultation, collaboration on artworks, and considered identification of sacred and significant areas within landscapes that might need specialised visual treatments.
We do this by owning every stage of the design and delivery process; where our in-house design and production teams work closely from concept to delivery to ensure the highest levels of creative respect and production integrity when working on any project in a sensitive environment.
Project Snapshot:
Sunrise Journeys
We worked with Voyages Ayers Rock Resort and traditional owners from the Anangu people to create a dramatic but respectful immersive visual show that accompanies sunrise each morning at Uluru. Over a period of several months, Mandylights’ design team worked with artists and other stakeholder to create a breathtaking unique show that communicates connection to country and culture across the spectacular desert landscape.
Sunrise Journeys shines a light on three prolific female Anangu artists who have come together to create a bespoke artwork that depicts their deep connection to culture and Country. Before the glowing silhouettes of Uluru and Kata Tjuta are revealed, the artwork is brought to life, utilising the vast desert landscape as a natural canvas.
As the red earth warms under the rising sun, take a seat on the sustainably constructed floating platform overlooking Uluru and Kata Tjuta, and watch the artwork as it is recreated on the vast, dark desert landscape below using cutting edge laser and light projection technology. Indigenous iconography – similar to those commonly seen in dot paintings – begin to gently ebb and flow across the land.
Project Snapshot:
Moama Lights
Mandylights created the Moama Lights with the Murray River Regional Council back in 2021 as a way of reinventing an under-used wetlands site on the banks of the Murray River in regional New South Wales, Australia. Quickly becoming an annual event, the project sees Horseshoe Lagoon respectfully illuminated with a series of complimentary, unique artworks and lighting treatments that see local school children, First Nations artists and musical composers celebrated in a month-long event. The project has quickly earned a reputation for being the region’s most spectacular light event, and attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the exquisite site each year.
Project Snapshot:
Sydney Botanic Gardens
Mandylights has enjoyed over a decade of close collaboration with Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens on a range of projects; from one-off art installations to large-scale sprawling site design and production for projects such as Lightscape and Vivid Sydney. Recognising the extreme natural beauty, stunning location and outstanding work of the Gardens’ teams in maintaining the central Sydney site, Mandylights has created artworks that are respectful, avoid damaging complex root systems and disturbing local animal populations.