●Festival stage · Tocumwal, VIC · 2025

Deep Jungle

An evolution on the existing structure built in 2024, leaning into a focus on production elements scattered vertically through space. Featuring a muted colour way to leave space for the monolithic nature of the space to take precedence. An alterplace design and build for Strawberry Fields Festival 2025.

Client: Strawberry Fields Festival
Scope: Concept DesignScenographyTechnical DesignBuild Management
Collaborators: Sound — Purple AudioVisuals — Bad Idea FactoryColour Treatment — Christopher MylesColour Treatment — Ash KeatingMetalwork — Brendan & Andi

Golden sunset breaking through gum trees behind the Deep Jungle stage, LED screens and shade poles over the festival crowd — 01photo — William Hamilton-Coates

Golden dust and low sun through the red gums, the crowd framed by the container tower — 02photo — Sabine Fritsch

Fisheye from the booth at night — the red-lit roof truss overhead, LED totems scattered through the trees — 03photo — Duncographic

The container tower glowing deep red above the raised viewing platform at night — 04photo — Sabine Fritsch

Detail of the vertical LED columns on the corrugated container skin, washed in red — 05photo — Sabine Fritsch

From the stage under the corrugated roof — misting fans and the midday crowd among the gums — 06

The muted sand-toned container tower threaded through the branches of a river red gum — 07

An umbrella totem raised against the sunset as the crowd builds around the container platform — 08photo — William Hamilton-Coates