Kelly Hill Caves
Part light show, part guided meditation, Sandpit created a completely unique in-cave experience for Kangaroo Island’s Kelly Hill Caves in partnership with the South Australian Department of Environment and Water.
Visitors to the Kelly Hill caves are guided underground, into a world unlike any other. There, they hear the story of how the caves came to be. This story is abstractly illustrated onto the incredible natural canvas of the cave walls through the medium of coloured lighting.
Spanning 500 million years of geological change in the space of 20 minutes, the story moves through continental shifts, asteroid hits and the rise and fall of entire species.
Sandpit worked with lighting specialist and system designer Chris Petridis to achieve the stunning visual effects and collaborated with composition consultant Cameron Goodall and sound designer Matthew Hadley on the audio. The voiceover was provided by actor and long-time sandpit collaborator Matt Crook.
This was Sandpit’s second project working deep underground in a cave and we were able to bring a level of unique expertise to working in such a specific and challenging natural environment.
