Fourth Phase London, working for Unusual Services, was chosen to provide the lighting for the historic event. Due to the nature of the event (staged virtually on a traffic island), a lighting rig would have compromised sightlines, so Fourth Phase supplied four followspots and a crew to ensure optimum lighting.
Unveiled by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, the multi-million pound, sweeping arc of Australian granite was designed by Australian architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greet. It sits incongruously alongside the imposing Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner, with the names of 24,000 hometowns and suburbs of Australian troops inscribed in the granite, with 47 key battle sites superimposed over them. The site will play host to Anzac Day services from next year.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
