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About

Visual Spectrum Studios is a Belfast-based creative production company. The studio delivers show design, tour visuals, lighting design, projection mapping, spatial audio, and full 360 production across arena touring, cultural commissions, and immersive installations.

The team sits at the intersection of design and operation. The people who design the shows also operate them. That informs every decision made in the process. You design differently when you know you are going to be the one in the room when it goes up.

The creative practice is rooted in years of graphic design, animation, filmmaking, and focused learning. The convergence of those disciplines is what informs the work. Visual communication, motion, narrative, and the physical reality of production are not separate bodies of knowledge at VSS. They feed each other.

VSS invests in three things that most studios do not hold in combination: a purpose-built R&D space at VS Immersive, a significant in-house equipment library, and deep investment in previs and the development of original intellectual property. The R&D space is where the work gets tested before it goes anywhere. The equipment library means the design is never limited by what a vendor has available. The previs investment means clients understand what they are commissioning before money is spent on delivery.

2019

Founded

Belfast

Based

Arena to Installation

Scale

Working Globally

Reach

The Team

Oisin O'Brien

Founder & Creative Director

Ryan Vail

Partner, ROI Sales Director

Morgan Henderson

Production Manager & Lighting Operator

Gabriel Jonkauskas

Project Manager & Media Server Operator

George Hardy

Operations

Christian Orr

Warehouse Supervisor

Lewis Hardy

Warehouse

John Temple

Lighting

Thomas O'Loan

Media