Vivid Sydney
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May
13
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Transforming Sydney

Vivid Sydney

The Rocks is a must-see of Vivid Sydney 2026.
When
Friday,
22 May 2026
Saturday,
13 Jun 2026

This year, Vivid Sydney meanders through the city like never before.

The Vivid Light Walk stretches an unbroken 6.5km, weaving its way through Circular Quay, The Rocks, Barangaroo and Darling Harbour—making every step a chance to stumble onto something extraordinary.

Here in The Rocks, the streets, laneways and harbourside corners you thought you knew light up in completely new ways.

Pushing creative and technological boundaries, the walk brings together big‑scale projections, playful interactive installations, and cutting‑edge laser and digital art—all set against the backdrop of Sydney’s oldest neighbourhood.

It’s easier than ever to explore. Harder than ever to forget.

Light Walk Highlights

From 6pm each night, see The Rocks transform with inspiring projections and installations that spotlight the essence of humanity. 
First Fleet Park
Invisible Cities
A tribute to the way our connected lives shape the fabric of a city, Invisible Cities rises as a landscape of aluminium‑ribbon skyscrapers — each one glowing with its own energy, yet linked together in a shimmering chain.
 
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First Fleet Park
As Water Falls
Mysterious and commanding, a waterfall like no other pours day and night over a monolithic cube in First Fleet Park. Streams of glitching code spill down its four towering walls of light — patterns, colours and shapes in constant flux, never looping, never the same twice. Step close and the flow responds, parting, shifting or even reversing around your hand, adding your own moment of beautiful unpredictability to the cascade.
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Museum of Contemporary Art
Vaiola
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s façade is brought to life with Vaiola, a surreal and subversive projection by Samoan-Australian artist Angela Tiatia. Plastic souvenirs, tropical imagery and the colonial term "Polynesian Triangle" are reimagined and reclaimed in Tiatia's newest digital tapa - a bold, contemporary take on the traditional ceremonial bark cloth.
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Sydney Opera House
Lighting of the Sails: Opera Mundi
Renowned French multimedia artist Yann Nguema brings his signature fusion of science, music and digital artistry to the Sydney Opera House sails. Produced by his studio, Anima Lux, and set to a score by Romanian composer Mischa Blanos, Opera Mundi unfolds as a sweeping ode to the natural transformations that once inspired architect Jørn Utzon. The result: a luminous journey across time, form and the living world — painted across Sydney’s most iconic canvas
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Campbells Cove
Koro Loko
Standing over eleven feet tall, this giant heart gleams by day — its surface covered in thousands of dichroic tiles that shimmer like sequins in the sun. As night settles in, Koro Loko comes alive, washing the tiles in shifting iridescent light that ripples and cascades across the heart’s surface. A beacon of colour, movement and emotion, glowing on the edge of the harbour.
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Campbells Cove
Dear You
Blending interactive tech, design thinking and cultural storytelling, this collaborative work turns public light art into a message meant just for you. A neon scrawl unfurls across what looks like an ancient piece of parchment, reading: “Welcome to Sydney, where your story begins.”  Whether you’re seeing the city for the first time or rediscovering it with fresh eyes, Dear You invites you to try something new — in Sydney and in yourself.
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ASN Clock Tower
Circles of Rhythm
Optimism pulses through this luminous projection inspired by the Bauhaus movement, where simple shapes and bold colour transformed everyday design. Beginning with a single glowing circle, the work expands outward — building rhythm, form and colour into a hypnotic play of geometry and light. A modern echo of Bauhaus principles, reimagined on the historic clocktower.
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Hickson Road Reserve
Pendulum
A giant, illuminated take on Newton’s Pendulum will hang above Hickson Road Reserve, inviting you to set glowing spheres in motion and spark waves of light and sound. Created by Sydney studio Amigo & Amigo, Pendulum transforms a classic physics principle into a playful, city‑scale experience that turns scientific wonder into spectacle. Originally commissioned for River of Light Liverpool, it will bring its rhythmic glow to The Rocks.
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The Argyle Cut
TIME: WARPED
A full‑throttle collision of lasers, experimental projection, story and sound, TIME:WARPED is a seven‑minute sprint through time itself — no TARDIS required. Anchored in one simple truth — time is a gift we each choose how to spend — the journey kicks off with a human heartbeat before rocketing spectacularly into the future, twisting and folding the minutes as it goes.
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Alfred and Loftus Street
Manawan
An ode to Bardi Jawi Country in Western Australia, Manawan brings the region’s tropical gum trees — the woollybutts — into the heart of Circular Quay. Created by Bardi man Darrel Sibosado, this towering steel forest glows day and night, honouring the life force, healing energy and deep connections that run through the trees, the land and Country. A moment of WA’s north, rooted firmly in the city.
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Customs House
The Fringe of Infinity
Stand at the edge of everything with this contemplative projection shaped by nature’s own geometry — the repeating mathematical patterns that underpin so much of the world around us. Paired with a resonant score by the artist’s son, Juan Reira Gomez (aka Luminecho), The Fringe of Infinity invites you to pause, look closer, and consider the hidden connections we often pass by.
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Circular Quay & The Rocks
Our Connected City

Our Connected City lights up Sydney Harbour in a sweeping, synchronised show of colour—linking landmarks, water and sky in a celebration of connection. And this year, you can join in. Create your own 30‑second light display for Circular Quay using the simple Your Connected City design tool (desktop only), powered by Mandylights and set to music by composer Bailey Pickles.

Ready to leave your mark on the harbour?

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