What does a custom installation cost?

It scales with ambition — small one-night pieces start in the low thousands, festival centrepieces run higher. Give us the brief and budget and we'll design to it honestly.

How long does a custom piece take to build?

Simple pieces can turn around in two to three weeks; complex fabrication with custom control wants six to eight. Tell us your date first and we'll tell you what's achievable.

Can we keep or re-hire the piece after the event?

Yes — pieces can be built for purchase, seasonal re-hire or touring. We design for the intended lifecycle from the start, since it changes the engineering.

Do you handle rigging and safety compliance?

Fully — structural rigging is engineered, outdoor components are IP64-rated, everything is tested and tagged, and we work with venue and site managers on approvals.

Can you match our brand or creative direction?

That's the point of custom — we work from your brand guidelines, art direction or mood boards, and share design visualisations before anything gets built.

Creative installations

Custom lighting built from a blank page

One-off lighting pieces designed to your brief — concepted, engineered, fabricated and installed by a crew that's equal parts artist and electrician.

From concept

Start with an idea, not a hire catalogue

Most lighting hire starts with a product list; custom installation work starts with a conversation. Tell us the feeling you want a space to have — a brand moment guests photograph, a festival centrepiece, a venue feature that changes how a room reads — and we design a piece to achieve it. That might be a suspended field of individually controllable pixels, a sculptural fixture built for one event, a lit structure guests walk through, or something nobody has a name for yet. With ten-plus years across AV, events and fabrication, we can tell you quickly what's achievable inside a budget and what the smarter version of your idea looks like. Browse the rest of our creative installations for the shapes this work takes.

Custom-built immersive lighting installation glowing in a dark space

Built properly

Design, control and engineering under one roof

The difference between an art idea and a working installation is engineering, and we carry the whole chain in-house. Pieces are designed with control in mind from the first sketch — DMX and pixel-mapped LED for precise choreography, TouchDesigner for generative behaviour, Resolume where video content drives the piece. Structures are built to be rigged safely, powered cleanly and toured if needed; outdoor pieces use IP64-rated components; and every electrical item is tested and tagged before it leaves the workshop. It's the same discipline we bring to festival production, applied to one-off artworks. The result is a piece that runs all night, every night, without a technician babysitting it.

DMX-controlled custom lighting piece running a programmed sequence

Where it lives

Events, venues, brands and public spaces

Custom pieces end up everywhere: brand activations that need a photographable centrepiece, festivals commissioning a signature artwork, hospitality venues wanting a permanent feature that becomes the reason people book, councils lighting a public space for a season, and private clients marking a once-off celebration. We handle the full lifecycle — concept, design visualisation, fabrication, delivery, install, operation and packdown — across the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Brisbane and the Northern Rivers, with quotes back within 24 hours of a brief. Some pieces are hired for a weekend; others are built to stay. Either way, start by telling us the idea through the contact page, or see our standard hire products if the brief is simpler than you thought.

Guests gathered around a custom lighting installation at an event

How it works

Poolside corporate event set up with festoon lighting overhead

Get a quote

Tell us about your event and venue — we come back with options and a price within 24 hours.

Pre-visualisation render of an event lighting design

Design & plan

We spec the right gear for your space, with renders for bigger builds so you see it before the night.

Lume Hire crew installing lighting from a boom lift

Delivery & install

Our crew delivers, rigs and tests everything — you never touch a ladder.

Festoon-lit lagoon event in full swing at night

Enjoy & packdown

Enjoy the night. When it wraps, we come back and pack it all down.

Frequently asked

: It scales with ambition — small one-night pieces start in the low thousands, festival centrepieces run higher. Give us the brief and budget and we'll design to it honestly.
: Simple pieces can turn around in two to three weeks; complex fabrication with custom control wants six to eight. Tell us your date first and we'll tell you what's achievable.
: Yes — pieces can be built for purchase, seasonal re-hire or touring. We design for the intended lifecycle from the start, since it changes the engineering.
: Fully — structural rigging is engineered, outdoor components are IP64-rated, everything is tested and tagged, and we work with venue and site managers on approvals.
: That's the point of custom — we work from your brand guidelines, art direction or mood boards, and share design visualisations before anything gets built.

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