Sarah Turner - Coca Cola Olympics

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Lighting

The lights for the Olympic Centre really make a statement being 2 metres wide and are made using 190 plastic Coca Cola bottles each.

There are 5 of the large lights in total, each is made up of rings of the plastic bottles and a globe in the middle.

Sarah says:

"I wanted the lights to have an Olympic look to them which is why I chose to make them as circular disks with rings of the plastic bottles, reminiscent of the Olympic rings. I also liked the idea of having the classic looking light bulbs visible, it reminded me of the infamous Coca Cola Christmas truck."

The globe is Sarah's Cola 30 design which are made from of course 30 Coca Cola bottles hand cut and sculpted into decorative forms. The Cola 30 was the first light Sarah made from waste plastic bottles when she first started her work over 4 years ago. This was the design Coca Cola first noticed and expressed interest in, after all it is made using their bottles and is named after them!

Sarah says:

" I really wanted to include my Cola 30 light, I thought the contrast between the whole plastic bottles and the transformation they go through with the Cola 30 was a fantastic thing to show".

Behind the scenes.....

Take a look at the making of the lights from the sorting the bottles, production of the lights, a practise run suspending the lights on a forklift truck and the installation at the Olympic Park.

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