Marcus McShane is one of New Zealand’s most prolific lighting designers, having installed over three hundred designs. In 2016 he designed For The Birds for the New Zealand International Arts Festival, which attracted an audience of over 12000 and was reviewed as a festival highlight. In 2015 he had lighting designs and installations in the NZ New Performance Festival at La MaMa in New York, and he was chosen to represent New Zealand at the Prague Quadrennial. He designed Heat in 2009, a theatre piece lit by custom LEDs which toured it’s own wind and solar power system and became the world’s first self-powered and emission-neutral piece of professional theatre, and in 2010 worked with Peter Stenhouse and 59 Productions on a commissioned work to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the New York MET. His first solo installation work Nag showed in 2009 at Toi Poneke Gallery and has since reshowed seventeen times including The Performance Arcade 201, during which time his designs have been installed in 27 countries. He has five awards for design and visual art, two New Zealand Designers Institute Best awards, and five Chapmann Tripp awards, including Chapmann Tripp lighting designer of the year for 2011 and 2013.