Rochelle Haley

Rochelle Haley's work focuses on painting, drawing, and movement, exploring the connections between bodies and the environments they inhabit. By collaborating with dancers, her installations and performances examine how the sensations of movement shape space. Her art seeks to reimagine the materiality of representation, exploring sensory, kinesthetic, emotional, and rhythmic experiences.

Lunar Sway was designed to address people's discomfort when walking at night under harsh, bright lights. Although these lights are intended to make spaces feel safer, they can sometimes have the opposite effect, making people feel exposed or uneasy. Haley's artwork responds to this need for safer and more calming spaces, especially for women and non-binary people.

The sequence of six lighting sculptures with shifting composition of colour, light and shadow was commissioned by Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct as part of Transport for NSW Safer Cities Program.

Our team in Brisbane designed and engineered the suspended artworks, coordinating with teams like ARUP and SESLHD to ensure the lighting design fits the project. We prepared detailed documentation while overcoming many challenges, to align with technical requirements and site specifics. We also worked with the artist to produce and install the artwork, fabricating 6 artwork lighting assemblies and installing the artwork into the site.