Sharing Light is a free public art installation coming to Archer Park, Bondi, this December. 5,000 handmade clay vessels — each housing a small solar-powered light — will be arranged in rows across the park. Every vessel is handmade by a member of the local Bondi community and beyond: individuals, families, school groups and community organisations from right across Sydney. As the sun sets each evening, the vessels illuminate, en masse, transforming the park into a shared field of light.
Archer Park, Bondi, from 4–14 December 2026 — eleven days and nights. Vessels begin illuminating at sunset and are fully lit by approximately 9pm each evening. The park is open 24 hours a day.
Yes. Sharing Light is free and open to everyone. During busy periods there may be a short wait to enter, in order to preserve the safety of visitors and the artwork, and maintain respect for the site.
Everyone. Sharing Light has been created for the whole community — people of all ages, faiths, backgrounds and connections to Bondi, whether they made a vessel themselves or not.
Sharing Light marks twelve months since the terror attack that shook Bondi Beach and the wider community. It was created to give Sydney a tangible, shared way to acknowledge that anniversary together — through the personal act of making a vessel and the shared act of coming together. It offers a way for the community to give support and hope to one another, and to transform a site of darkness into a space of hope.
No. Sharing Light is not a memorial. It is a temporary public artwork, in place for eleven days and nights only, after which it will be taken down. It has been deliberately designed as a moment of shared reflection and hope around the anniversary, rather than as a permanent or formal memorial.
The creation of a permanent memorial is a long, consultative process that Waverley Council is initiating over the coming months.
Waverley Council will tender expressions of interest for a permanent exhibition at Archer Park, drawing on funding secured from the state government. The details are yet to be determined.
In the twelve months since the attack, communities across Sydney have leaned on one another to grieve, support and rebuild. Sharing Light gives that ongoing support a physical, visible form — thousands of individually made vessels, each representing a person or group who chose to take part, coming together to fill the park with light. It offers the community a way to pause, reflect and stand alongside one another.
Sharing Light is predominantly funded by the community who believe in the significance of the project. Most of the project is the result of in-kind donations from the artists and collaborative team, including Waverley Council, Shalom Collective, other community groups, and hundreds of volunteers working together to make the project a reality. Funding has come from the Waverley Council Local Creative Collaborations Programme, the Multicultural NSW Stronger Together Grant, the JCA Identity Fund, Victims of Terrorism Australia, and philanthropic support. Despite this generosity, some hard costs remain and the project is still seeking additional support from the public to make it viable.
Tax-deductible donations can be made through the Australian Cultural Fund. Every dollar donated goes directly towards bringing this community artwork to life. Donate via the Australian Cultural Fund.
Members of the public of all ages and backgrounds — individuals, families, school groups, first responders, survivors and victims' next of kin, alongside other community organisations. Workshops have been run within schools and community organisations for groups as large as 200 people and as small as five or six, alongside public drop-in workshops in Bondi for anyone who wants to show their support.
Sharing Light was created by a handful of local artists who came together wanting to mark this anniversary in a way that would bring people from across the community into a shared act of care. In keeping with the collective spirit of the work, the artists have chosen not to be named individually.
It reflects what the project is trying to say: that Sharing Light belongs to everyone who takes part, not to any single artist.
Eleven days and nights, from 4 to 14 December 2026.
The park is open 24 hours a day. Vessels begin illuminating at sunset and are fully lit by approximately 9pm.
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Yes. Movement through the installation is guided by pathways between the vessels, and a wider path circumnavigates the whole installation to ensure equitable access, so that wheelchairs and prams can engage with the artwork.
Given the significance of what Sharing Light marks, visitors are asked to move through the installation with care and respect — for the space, for other visitors, and for the community members whose hands shaped each vessel. Please stay on marked paths and avoid stepping on or touching the vessels. Pets are not permitted.
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