Celebrated artist and UNSW researcher Rochelle Haley has created a new legacy artwork for Randwick, illuminating a corridor through the health campus and enhancing feelings of safety and wellbeing for local workers at night, while acting as a beacon for the broader community.
Commissioned by the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, the permanent installation features glowing spheres with a changing composition of coloured light, inspired by lunar cycles. The artwork, titled Lunar Sway, lights up each night with special sequences at sunrise and sunset. Visitors can experience the work at two precinct locations – off Avoca Street, just a short stroll from Randwick light rail stop, and at nearby Francis Martin Drive.
Transforming the site at night, the creation of Lunar Sway was guided by consultation with night shift workers across the precinct, as part of the Transport for NSW Safer Cities program.
The Transport for NSW’s Safer Cities program is a statewide investment to deliver projects that help improve perceptions of safety in cities and towns across NSW, particularly for women, girls and gender diverse people as they walk or move through public spaces and transport hubs.
Lunar Sway is one of a series of new creative projects commissioned by the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct, proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Transport for NSW and Create NSW. These initiatives have been transforming and uplifting our streets and have enabled a new Night-time Masterplan in support of more equitable experience across the site for night shift workers and women and girls moving through campus spaces after dark.
Project credits
Artist: Rochelle Haley
Commissioning Curator: Sophie Forbat
Fabrication: UAP | Urban Art Projects – Elishia Whitchurch, Scott Stephenson, Elise Thomson
Lighting Consultants: Rebecca Cadorin and Ghazaleh Akhzary at Arup
Lighting Technicians: Aleš Vašenda, 3S Lighting
Project Videographers: Sophie Georgiou and Stef Mileski of Motel Picture Company
Photographer: Zan Wimberley
Image credit:
Rochelle Haley, Lunar Sway, 2024
Sequence of six lighting sculptures with shifting composition of colour, light and shadow.
Photo: Zan Wimberley
Courtesy the artist