UK - Point Source Productions' technical productions department was commissioned by Eclipse Presentations to provide a lighting system for the Australia Day celebrations at the Australian High Commission in London on 23 January this year.
The event involved a Thai-themed gala dinner created by the famed Australian Michelin Star chef, David Thompson, of Nahm in Belgravia, and a cabaret of Australian artists including Philip Quast, Kirby Hughes and Sam Harrison to entertain the diners. The evening culminated in the presentation of the much-coveted Australia Day UK awards for Australian of the Year, Honorary Australian of the Year and Young Australian Achiever of the Year.
Point Source Productions provided lighting for the exterior and reception areas for the evening, in addition to lighting the Gala Dinner and cabaret. Lighting designer David Miller, working on behalf of Point Source Productions, used a simple uplighting effect to colour-wash the front of Australia House, picking out its architectural features, whilst employing a series of Chroma-Q Color-Punches to colour wash the ceilings in the reception areas and highlight the further points of architectural beauty inside.
Within the Gala Dining Room, Martin Professional MAC 300s were used to colour-wash the room and an array of Martin MAC700s and MAC 550s used to create animated gobo washes across the ceiling. These Martin fixtures also provided a variety of lighting states to complement the cabaret acts and augment the conventional fixtures lighting the performance and presentation stages.
Finally, low voltage fixtures at floor level were used to highlight the spectacular flower arrangements and other set dressing throughout the venue.
Bradley Hill, project manager for Eclipse Presentations, was very happy with the finished result: "It was amazing to see the different effects that were created across the dining room to complement each song during the cabaret acts," he said.
