City Lights by Brendan Van Hek

The most difficult installation in our 30 year history, to attach 112 neon tubes of various colour and shapes to aluminium armatures suspended between two circles three metres in diameter. All but twelve of the tubes were installed in a warehouse and then the sculpture was freighted by Events Engineering on a flatbed truck to inner Sydney and suspended so we could attach the tubes that hung below the bottom ring. Then the Events team hoisted it into place and tethered it to the support wires and brought power cables to our ring of transformers.

This work won a gold medal at the Australian Sign and Graphics Awards in the Neon Illumination category 2020.

A time-lapse video of the factory installation can be seen at this you tube address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJilck_53Io