Field of Light in Albany commemorates 100 years since WWI Armistice
Albany’s Avenue of Honour will light up this October in a large-scale art installation by Bruce Munro to mark 100 years since the end of WWI.
While many travel to Gallipoli or Villers-Bretonneux to pay their respects to the Anzacs, The Field of Light: Avenue of Honour aims to offer visitors a significant memorial closer to home.
Particularly relevant to Albany’s history, the installation will also pay tribute to the 41,000 Anzac soldiers who departed the port city to fight in Europe more than a century ago, as well as the Armistice of 1918.
Sixteen thousand glass spheres will illuminate the tree-lined Avenue of Honour in hues of white, yellow and gold — the colours of wattle and kowhai, the national flowers of Australia and New Zealand.
The Field of Light: Avenue of Honour opens October 4, during the region’s peak wildflower season, and continues until Anzac Day 2019.