Expo Pavilions

Australian Pavilion

World Expo 2012 – Yeosu, South Korea

May – August 2012

Production company – ThinkOTS

Pavilion and Exhibit Designer

Awards:

BIE Bronze – creative design

Exhibitor Magazine – Best Presentation 

A journey in 3 acts immersing visitors in Australia’s unique relationship with its coast and surrounding waters, reflecting the Expo theme, ‘The Living Ocean and Coast’.

‘Coast’ – contemporary Indigenous art and music, celebrating the relationship that Indigenous communities have with coastal country and the ocean were presented as a welcome to the pavilion.

‘Ocean’ – featured a sculptural centre-piece, representing the swell of the ocean, as it rises and falls between sets of ‘waves.’

Spanning the full width of the space, the sculpture, as a multi-faceted projection surface, allowed each visitor a ‘unique’ view from which to experience the audio-visual presentation.

From under or around the sculpture, the tension between the worlds of what is above and what is below the surface was explored in the sophisticated projection-mapped presentation.

‘Life’ – visitors could have their photo taken aboard an Aussie surfboat and with as they ride a wave into shore with three strapping surf lifesaving kangaroos.

A live video feed into Australia’s amazing Great Barrier Reef provided visitors with an entertaining and educational experience, interacting with a diver.

Experiential installation

Expo 2020 Host Nation bid

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

October 2013

Production Company – Resolution Independent and Pipers

Installation designer

Australian Pavilion

World Expo 2010 – Shanghai, China

May – October 2010

Production company – ThinkOTS

Exhibit designer

‘People’ and ‘Discover’ pre-show

Set designer

‘Discover’

Awards:

AVIA – Best Installation – ‘Discover’

The Australian interpretation of the Expo theme, ‘Better Cities, Better Life’, was presented to visitors to the Australian Pavilion as an experience in 3 Acts – ‘Journey’, ‘Discover’ and ‘Enjoy’.

‘Journey’ – Australia’s multiculturalism, history and contemporary lifestyles were presented in a progression of 5 exhibition spaces, using a variety of media to immerse the visitors on their journey.

‘Discover’ – a spectacular purpose-built theatre-in-the-round for an audience of 1000 per show. Continuously revolving 5m high curved screens, would rise up and down revealing a series of set pieces that, matched to the audio-visual animation, would tell the story of Australia’s dynamic and modern cities.

‘Enjoy’ – Suspended overhead in the atrium, elegant 10m high sculptures represented the native flowers of each of Australia’s States and Territories.

Australian Pavilion

World Expo 2000 – Hannover, Germany

June – December 2000

Production company – Caribiner International

Exhibit designer

‘Many Faces of Australia’