●Festival stage · VIC & NSW · 2019

Grapevine Gathering

A touring festival stage designed and built by alterplace for Untitled Group's Grapevine Gathering, staged across both the Victorian and NSW events. The brief called for a form that could be assembled, dismantled and flat-packed into a truck; the result was two huge barrels and a decorated facade that nestled into the winery settings as though they had always been there.

Client: Untitled Group
Scope: Concept Design
Collaborators: Fabrication & Installation — Stage Kings

Festival stage framed by two giant striped wine-barrel forms beneath an arched Grapevine sign, the night crowd stretching into the dark — 01

The twin timber wine barrels flanking the arched Grapevine proscenium, stage glowing amber at dusk — 02

The barrel stage by day — vineyard rows behind, the vine-scrolled arch over the LED screen — 03

Wide of the flat-packable barrel stage under an open sky, the crowd's hands up — 04

Blue light and haze pouring from the stage between the two barrels at night — 05

A dancer on shoulders silhouetted against the amber-lit rig and barrel — 06

Fisheye of the stage at night, the decorated facade glowing orange over the crowd — 07

The full arena in red — the barrels and vine-leaf arch above a sea of hands — 08

From behind the band at dusk — the crowd stretching to the ferris wheel on the horizon — 09

Front elevation render of the barrel stage — timber staves, steel straps and the vine-covered arch — 10

Three-quarter render showing the flat-packable barrel structure wrapping the stage truss — 11