Web of Light draws inspiration from the moment sunlight catches a spider’s web, scattering tiny prisms of colour across the air. To recreate this natural spectacle at architectural scale, the artists constructed a three‑metre‑wide web composed of 1,000 chandelier crystals. Illuminated from above with energy‑efficient LED arrays, the installation transforms into a radiant lattice of refracted light, shifting as viewers move around it.
Artists: Ruth McDermott & Ben Baxter
Year: 2010
Medium: Crystal, net, pole tubing, LED wall wash (4000K) Dimensions: 2 m × 1.5 m
Exhibition History
VIVID Light Walk, 2010
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, 2011
VIVID Optica, Walsh Bay, 2013
VIVID, 2014
Globelight, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 2013
River Fest, 2012
Sydney University Light Festival, 2016
AfterDark, Maitland NSW, 2022
