CommBank

History

Exhibition

We were engaged to work with CommBank to create a large scale screen installation and exhibition experience for the South Building foyer at their new headquarters in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

The foyer, designed by Hassell, features two areas devoted to the function of ongoing curatable zones; a 10m LED wall and seven enclosed display cabinets.

For the Level 1 screen, we collaborated with Woopaburra artist Leona McGrath to interpret her work into a moving format. Drawing upon Leona’s painted artwork for CommBank, our full CG animation was inspired by themes of nature (river currents moving water grasses), as well as notions of community, connection and wellbeing.

For this motion work, we created a sequence programmed to play 24/7 in the space, with iterative colours designed to respond to the changing light outside.

On the ground foyer entry we worked with CommBank’s Archives team to curate an richly immersive exhibition that was designed to work across the seven box formats and illustrate some poignant moments in the bank’s history.

We used a combination of physical props, moving animatronics and screen animation to communicate a range of historical facts, stories and anecdotes.

Panoramic LED artwork in blue and orange filling a lobby wall as a lone visitor passes

To demonstrate the deepest respect for First Nations voices, CommBank has a special piece of Indigenous artwork co-created by Kuku Yalanji and Woopaburra artist Leona McGrath, CommBank’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous employees, and members of the community. CommBank wanted to create a digital interpretation of this artwork for a 9m LED wall at the main entry of their commercial office building, Commonwealth Bank Place South, in Sydney’s Darling Quarter.

In consultation with CommBank and First Nations artist Leona McGrath, Collider Studio created an original motion work for the digital screen. Interweaving the painting’s design elements with movements found in nature, the motion work creates a meditative and ambient presence with evolving colours cued by the changing light outside at different times of the day.

CommBank Archives History Exhibition — a wide LED wall glowing above the lobby turnstiles

The foyer, designed by Hassell, features two areas devoted to the function of ongoing curatable zones; a 10m LED wall and seven enclosed display cabinets.

For the Level 1 screen, we collaborated with Woopaburra artist Leona McGrath to interpret her work into a moving format. Drawing upon Leona’s painted artwork for CommBank, our full CG animation was inspired by themes of nature (river currents moving water grasses), as well as notions of community, connection and wellbeing.

For this motion work, we created a sequence programmed to play 24/7 in the space, with iterative colours designed to respond to the changing light outside.

History Exhibition screen content — molten gold and teal currents drifting across a wide canvas
Generative animation still in teal and grey scattered with gold sparks, for CommBank Archives
Experience design frame of deep red and amber flows built for the panoramic lobby display
Animation frame fronting a film of the CommBank Archives screen, gold currents on black
CommBank Archives animation in cool teal and silver, currents braiding across the ultra-wide screen
Recessed display case lit by a pendant lamp, an archival blue-toned office photograph behind
History Exhibition object case holding a foundation stone and gilded trowel over a site photograph
Bowler hat and handwritten ledger displayed against a blue-toned image of an old banking hall

On the ground foyer entry we worked with CommBank’s Archives team to curate an richly immersive exhibition that was designed to work across the seven box formats and illustrate some poignant moments in the bank’s history.

Backlit blue artwork glowing in a slim frame on the CommBank Archives gallery wall

We used a combination of physical props, moving animatronics and screen animation to communicate a range of historical facts, stories and anecdotes.

Vivid orange and blue LED artwork beside a small framed caption card in the darkened gallery
Exhibition vitrine where an old desk fan scatters paper across a poster reading You Buy Peace

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