Name: Kieren Dew

Job Title: Project Manager

My role at Tri-Point entails…

Working with clients to help create, design and deliver their projects from ideas to reality.

My favourite project to date was…

“I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” 2022. I had an opportunity to be involved in the walk-in challenges. I was drafting, building, then operating auto – all on the same gig.

When I was a kid I wanted to be…

An engineer. But I didn’t get the marks for it. So, I became a rigger instead!

The most amazing place I have ever visited has to be…

I have very fond memories of cruising down the Nile in Egypt.

My first job was…

Counting shackles and truss bolts in the Tri-Point Botany warehouse.

My favourite movie of all time is…

The 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Mummy, with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.

The strangest thing to happen on one of my projects was…

I was suprised to be handing out tubes of lube to the crew to help install massive roofing skins. Safe to say it worked a charm though!

The best advice I have ever been given is…

Always be kind to your mother, catering, and security.

Photographs (clockwise for top right):

Vivid 2024 “Nest” Build, Sydney Opera House Fireworks Installation, Stage Rigging at The Domain, Taylor Swift 2024 with Dylan Hines

When he’s not buttering up event catering in the green room, Kieren is one of Tri-Point’s very talented Project Managers. A proud third generation rigger and stage builder, Kieren follows in the footsteps of his grandfather (Reg Dew) and father (Graeme Dew) to work in the Australian entertainment rigging industry. Providing Tri-Point’s clients with end-to-end project management, Kieren takes his projects from initial planning, design and quoting stages, right through to managing the rigging team and logistics on-site for build and dismantle. Some of his extensive skillset includes rigging, scaffolding, welding, and drafting to name a few.

Photo (above): Jasin Boland/Warner Bros. | George Miller in action on the film’s Broken Hill set

It’s our Birthday!🎉

To celebrate a Quarter-of-a-Century working with our lovely Clients, Crew and Suppliers, we thought we’d take a trip down memory lane to reminisce on our origin story, and remember some of the highlights we’ve worked on over the years…

In 1998 three career riggers [David Hird, Graeme Dew and Warren Jones], who had worked on film sets, live television broadcasts and international touring stages all over the globe, found themselves working together on a new feature film called The Matrix; shot at Fox Studios in Sydney. That’s where industry legends Ray Brown and Reg Garside introduced them to a production team in urgent need of a rigging company for their new television series, “Farscape”. The guys mobilised quickly; purchasing rigging equipment, borrowing scaffolding from Graeme’s father, Reg Dew, and truss from Tony Davies at Chameleon. Just a few days later, on September 3rd 1998, Dave, Graeme and Warren sent off their very first quote together; “Quote 001” for the supply and installation of rigging equipment to suit the Command Centre Set for “Farscape”. On September 4th 1998, they installed the rig at Fox Studios. And Tri-Point Rigging Services was born…

Tri-Point worked predominantly on television shows and feature films in the beginning. In 2000 Tri-Point were contracted by the Sydney Olympic Planning Authority for the International Broadcast Centre at Homebush. By 2003 we had moved to our current headquarters in Botany, Sydney and increased our major event portfolio to include the 2003 Rugby World Cup and 2005 Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Opening a Melbourne branch in 2006, spearheaded by working on the Commonwealth Games, Tri-Point continued to work on feature films and television shows as well, opening our Gold Coast branch in late 2008 and commencing work on the UK tv series “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!” in 2009, which we’re still working on to this day!

Above: One of countless challenges we have completed for the contestants on “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!” over the years. 

2012

Australian Open of Surfing

2017

Australian Ninja Warrior (TV Series)

From Quote # 001 at the beginning of September 1998 to Quote # 17603 as at the start of September 2023, Tri-Point has come a long way over the past 25 years in business! We feel humble and privileged to have far too many projects and highlights to even try to regale in one email! Thank you to everyone who has and continues to support us on this crazy journey – we couldn’t have done it without all of you!

In Loving Memory of AFG “YC”

Send us an email or head on over to our Facebook page and drop us a comment to let us know what your fav Tri-Point moments so far have been. We’d love to compile them all into a collection!

Email us here or click this link to go to our Facebook page.

Team Tri-Point x

Above: Vivid Sydney 2023, “Sonder”

A Year In Focus

It’s been another crazy busy year at Tri-Point, filled with labour intensive staging projects, blockbuster movies and major events. Here’s our latest update for your viewing pleasure!

Over the past year, Tri-Point have provided staging and temporary structures to a range of outdoor festivals and concerts including highlights such as NYE in the Park, Midnight Oil, Festival X, Relay for Life Sutherland Shire, Vivid Sydney, Opera on Sydney Harbour, and World Pride 2023.

We have completed the production rigging for a tonne of different shows, including highlights Guns N Roses, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Harry Styles, Fatboy Slim, EPIK, Transmission Festival, Festival X, RNB Fridays, Good Things Festival, Knotfest, Midnight Mafia, the Sydney Opera House 50th Birthday, the Forecourt Series 2022, and Australian Fashion Week.

Major sporting events included the NRL Grand Final, the T20 World Cup, and the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, to name a few. Tri-Point also provided production riggers and steel crew to suit a variety of theatre productions including Amadeus in Concert at the Sydney Opera House, 9 to 5: The Musical, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

This season’s film & television projects have been bountiful, and included highlights such as Mad Max: Furiosa (Film), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Film), Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (Film), The Fall Guy (Film), Mortal Kombat 2 (Film), Anyone But You (Film), ‘I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!’ (TV Series), Thank God You’re Here (TV), The Voice (TV), Australian Idol (TV), Paper Dolls (TV), Under Investigation (TV), Last King of the Cross (TV), Space Princess (TV), La Brea (TV), Masterchef Australia (TV), Ten Pound Poms (TV), The Masked Singer (TV), Strictly Ballroom (TV) as well as numerous other films, television shows and TVC’s.

Clockwise from top left: Relay for Life Sutherland Shire, Festival X, Woochop Stage, New Years Eve In The Park, Amadeus in Concert at the Sydney Opera House, This That Festival.

COUNTERWEIGHT
In Stock for Hire

Our stock of 1 tonne concrete ballast blocks has been growing of late, and now exceeds 250 x blocks!

Combined with our inventory of 500kg and 600kg blocks, 25kg lead ingots, and a variety of other stage weights and shot bags, we have plenty of counterweight to hire for your event or production.

Send us an email for more info.

STAGECO CLASSIC ROOF SYSTEMS
Available Installed

Did you know that Tri-Point are proud stockists of StageCo’s superior 20m & 25m black steel roof systems?

With two 20m 3-Tower StageCo Classics or one 25m 4-Tower StageCo Classics in stock ex. Sydney, Tri-Point can provide outdoor staging to suit even the biggest of shows in Sydney and beyond.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our lovely Clients, Suppliers and Crew for their ongoing support, and for helping us through another massive year for Tri-Point. We can’t wait to do it all over again next financial year, see you then!

Team Tri-Point x