TPi Awards 2023
NRG joins Robe's creative lighting team!
Robe was proud to be the lighting sponsor of the 2023 TPi Awards, supplying over 250 of its latest moving lights plus a stunning design to the event produced by TPi Magazine which honours some of the best creative and technical achievements in the world of entertainment.
The lighting team included seven NRG students joining Robe's Group Creative Director Nathan Wan and Andy Webb taking on a variety of different lighting production roles from associate LD to RoboSpot operators, providing invaluable hands-on experience.
As always, the high pressure of designing a show to impress the production industry with a get in the day before and one night of onsite programming were the major challenges, and while Nathan and Andy did achieve a lot in pre-vizzing, meeting all the expectations certainly ratcheted up the pressure.
The main room lighting was run from an Avolites D9 console programmed by Jordan and operated by Will Grubb who was the assistant LD for the evening.
He commented, "The whole experience is invaluable and something that I never even thought was possible – being at the TPi Awards, surrounded by leading industry professionals. It's fantastic to have on the CV, and I would encourage more students to join NRG and explore these opportunities! The whole Robe team is super friendly and working hard to assist students in connecting with the right scenarios and the right people."
Other Robe lighting crew on the night included Jack Barlow who programmed and operated the Avo Tiger Touch II console in the bar. Another Tiger Touch II was used to run the architectural lighting, programmed and operated by Kyle Evans, while Andy used a third TT II for white / key lighting in the main room.
The four Robe NRG students operating the RoboSpot systems were Alison O’Shea, Avram Rosewood, Lewis Bradley and Liam Fox.
Robe also sponsored the ‘Lighting Designer of the Year’ Award, which this year was presented by Robe UK sales director Ian Brown and won by Ed Warren who is known for his creativity and uncompromising imaginative ingenuity. His recent clients include Idles, Friendly Fires, Four Tet and Skrillex, and Ed also won the TPi Award in 2016.
Other 2023 winners included Mark Cunniffe who picked up the Mark Fisher Set Designer of the Year Award for his work on Ed Sheeran’s ground-breaking +–=÷× Tour and Ant Barrett, Coldplay’s video director, who walked away with the 2023 Des Fallon Video Visionary Award.
Photo Credit: Joe Okpato, courtesy TPi