Awards

  • DARE Fellowship in Scenography, 2011-14, University of Leeds / Opera North
  • Overall Winner Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2003
  • Selected to represent the UK at Prague Quadrennial 2007
  • Selected for World Stage Design Exhibition 2013
  • Fringe First Award. Edinburgh Festival
  • First Ruskin Prize for Anatomy Drawing

Designs and Visual Art

  • MOMENTUM Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / photo-essays and films to accompany music workshops with refugees and homeless people / Artist
  • CASSANDRA  Choreographed by Ludovic Ondiviela / The Royal Ballet / Set and Costume Design
  • TRANSMISSION INTERACTIVE Becs Andrews Company / Manchester Science Festival / York festival of Ideas / interactive installation based on transmission of disease and memes / Lead artist and Producer
  • THE CRACKLE  Composed and Directed by Matthew Herbert / The Royal Opera House /  Set and Costume Designer
  • THROUGH HIS TEETH Directed by Bijan Sheibani / Royal Opera House / Set and Costume Designer
  • TRANSMISSION Becs Andrews Company / Choreographed by Simon Birch / York Festival of Ideas / contemporary dance and installation based on transmission of disease / Lead Artist, Producer and Costume Designer
  • GOLD DUST: OF MEMORY AND LIGHT University of Leeds / video sculpture based on particle physics / Artist
  • ROMEO AND JULIET  Directed by Bijan Sheibani / National Theatre / Set and Costume Designer
  • ALL ALIGHT Choreographed by Richard Alston / Phoenix Dance Theatre  / Costume Design
  • REPETITION OF CHANGE Choreographed by Sharon Watson / Phoenix Dance Theatre / Set and Video Design
  • LEAVING PLANET EARTH Directed by Catrin Evans and Lewis Hetherington / Grid Iron for Edinburgh International Festival / Set Designer
  • CONDUCTOR Howard Assembly Room, Opera North / Video installation tracking the gaze of orchestra conductors / Artist
  • FASTER  Choreographed by David Bintley / Birmingham Royal Ballet & National Ballet of Japan / Costume Design / Selected for World Stage Design exhibition
  • PHASE REVIVAL: AN OPTICAL HARMONICA  University of Leeds / Opera North / Leeds City Museum / kinetic installation based on spectroscopy / Lead artist and Producer
  • SONGS OF EXPERIENCE Opera North Education / photo portraits series of people with dementia and their carers / Artist
  • HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE . Leeds City Centre, part of Overworlds&Underworlds / kinetic installation / Artist
  • STEEL MAGNOLIAS Directed by Jemima Levick / Dundee Rep Theatre / Set and Costume Designer
  • TERRARIUM Choreographed by Simon Birch / Simon Birch Dance Company / North York Moors / Costume Designer
  • REMOTE Choreographed by Sarah Dowling/ Royal Opera House / Set, Costume and Video Designer
  • PHANTASMAGORIA: SEDUCTION AND PSYCHOSIS  Stage@leeds / theatre performance about psychosis / Director
  • FOUR SEASONS:WINTER Opera North / Yorkshire Sculpture Park / films and installation / Artist
  • JUSTICE BBC One / Series Production Designer
  • MOMO Choreographed by Didy Veldman / Ballet:Bern / Set, Costume and Video Design, Lighting co-design.
  • BANGLANATAK RESIDENCY Banglanatak / West Bengal, India / Artist
  • SIVALOKA Choreographed by Mayuri Boonham / Atma Dance Company / UK Tour / Costume Design
  • MUM’S NOT IN Written and Directed by Claire Fowler / Production Designer
  • SESSION Choreographed by Didy Veldman / Introdans / European Tour  / Costume Design
  • THE SWIMMING MAN Written by Esther Wilson / LA Productions / Production Designer
  • THE ART OF NOT LOOKING BACK Choreographed by Hofesh Shechter / Hofesh Shechter Company / Brighton Festival and International Tour  / Costume Design
  • UNTITLED Choreographed by Hofesh Shechter / Brighton Festival / Costume Designer
  • THE HOTEL Directed by Mark Watson / The Invisible Dot / Set and Costume Designer / Fringe First Award
  • ON THE RIM OF THE WORLD Composer Orlando Gough / Directed by Karen Gillingham / Royal Opera House / Set and Costume Co-designer
  • YOU CAN ONLY DREAM Directed by Tim Yealland / English Touring Opera / Royal Opera House / Set and Costume Co-designer
  • THE QUIET LITTLE ENGLISHMAN Directed by Paula Simms / Liverpool 08 / Set, Costume and Video Designer
  • EUGENE ONEGIN Directed by Will Kerley / Scottish Opera & RSAMD / Set and Costume Designer
  • ALBERT HERRING Directed by Will Kerley / British Youth Opera / Set and Costume Design
  • LA SERVA PADRONA Directed by Harry Fehr / Royal Opera House / Set and Costume Designer
  • SLAPPERS AND SLAPHEADS Directed by Bob Eaton / Royal Court Liverpool / Set and Costume Designer
  • THE ELECTRIC HILLS Directed by Nick Bagnall / Everyman Liverpool / Set and Costume Designer
  • THE TINDER BOX Directed by Paula Simms / Unity Theatre /  Set, Costume and Video Designer
  • OUR KIND OF FUN Directed by Jeremy Herrin /Live Theatre, Newcastle / Set and Costume Designer
  • CYRANO DE BERGERAC Directed by Guy Slater / Basingstoke Haymarket / Set and Costume Designer
  • THE MAGIC TREE Written and directed by Ursula Rani Sarma / Cork Midsummer Festival / Edinburgh Festival / Irish Tour / Set and Costume Designer
  • BEAU JEST Directed by Susie McKenna / Hackney Empire / Set and Costume Designer
  • FIESQUE Directed by Emma Rivlin / UCOpera / Bloomsbury Theatre / Set Designer
  • THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY Directed by Edward Dick / Guildhall, Bridewell Theatre / Set & Costume Designer
  • ITINERARIUM Choreographed by Margarita Zafrilla / The Place / Set and Costume Designer
  • APERTURE Battersea Arts Centre / dance performance inside camera obscura / Director
  • HAMLET Directed by Dylan Lowthian / Al Bustan Festival, Beirut / Set and Costume Designer
  • PERPETUA by Fraser Grace / Directed by Dan Milne / Latchmere Theatre / Set and Costume Designer
  • ORESTES 2.0 Directed by Daniel Kramer / Guildhall / Set and Costume Design / Selected for UK entry in Prague Quadrennial 
  • TWELFTH NIGHT Directed by Stephen Unwin / ETT / National Tour / Set Designer
  • JEFF KOONS  Directed by Gordon Anderson / ATC / ICA and National Tour / Set and Costume Designer / Overall Winner, Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design
  • SET AND RESET Choreographed by Trisha Brown / EDge Dance Company / The Place and UK Tour / Set, Costume & Video Designer
  • SOLO IN GRENZEN Choreographed by Iris Seewald & Seraina Dejaco / DatanzDa, Gessneralle, Zurich / Set and Costume Designer
  • TWOS Choreographed by Jane Leaney / Juntos Dance Company / St Pancras Church Crypt / Set, Costume & Lighting Designer
  • CLEPSYDRA Choreographed by Linda Remahl / Solas Dance Company / The Place, London / Set and Costume co-designer
  • LOUNGE Choreographed by Iris Seewald /London Contemporary Dance School / Set and Costume Designer
  • CORNER OF THE WORLD Choreographed by Caroline D’Haese / Parts, Rosas, Brussels / Set and Costume Designer
  • THE MAGIC FLUTE Directed by Wayne Ives / Oxford Apollo / Set and Costume Designer
  • WEST SIDE STORY Directed by Wayne Ives / Oxford Playhouse / Set Designer
  • FEEDBACK The Ruskin / Bloomsbury Crypt / video-installation / Artist
  • HIGH LIGHT FLYING LESSON Exterior BT Building, Oxford / site-specific video installation / Artist
  • HAUNTING Various street locations, Oxford / site-specific installation / Artist

Talks / Public Engagement

  • ‘TRANSMISSION: THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF EPIDEMIOLOGY’ Film showing and Presentation at The British Society of Parasitology Autumn Symposium, University of Salford
  • ‘CULTURE, CREATIVITY AND THE ACADEMY – BUILDING A NEW PARTNERSHIP’ Artists in Residence Panel, The Cultural Capital Exchange / Panel Member
  • ‘PHASE REVIVAL: AN OPTICAL HARMONICA’  Film showing, Presentation and Poster at The Royal Society of Chemistry AGM, University of Durham
  • ‘PHASE REVIVAL’ Make Some Noise seminar for public engagement /  University of Leeds / Speaker
  • ‘COMPLEX COLLABORATIONS: REALISING INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPACT IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES’ Knowledge Exchange and Arts and Humanities Research Conference /  University of Southampton / Speaker
  • ‘PERMISSION TO WORK DIFFERENTLY: DESIGNER AS AUTEUR’ / PSI#18 (Performance::Culture::Industry) International Conference / Speaker, Chair of Session
  • ‘BEYOND THE RUSKIN’ Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University / Talk
  • ‘WORKING AS A BRITISH STAGE DESIGNER’ Shanghai Academy of Dramatic Art / Speaker
  • ‘COLLABORATING AS A THEATRE DESIGNER’ ECCA Enterprise Week / University of the Arts London / Speaker
  • LINBURY NORTH Portfolio surgery for young stage designers / Advisor
  • ‘DESIGNING SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES’ Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / Visiting Lecturer
  • ‘DESIGNING THE HOTEL’  Association of British Theatre Design Courses Conference / Speaker
  • ‘DESIGNING FOR NEW WRITING’  Everyman Young Writers, Liverpool Everyman / Talk
  • ‘WORKING AS A STAGE DESIGNER’ The Arts Institute, Bournemouth / Visiting Lecturer
  • ‘PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE’ Association of British Theatre Design Courses Conference, Nottingham Trent University / Talk
  • ‘DESIGNING THE ELECTRIC HILLS’ Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts / Talk
  • TIME AS PERFORMANCE / PERFORMANCE TIME Summer Acadamie at Kunstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt / Contributor

Workshops

  • ROYAL OPERA HOUSE Education Department / Thurrock / Delivering a range of design and making workshops to Primary, Secondary, and FE
  • WIDENING PARTICIPATION WORKSHOP Workshop for young adults & local artists / Plymouth Drum Theatre / ATC / Workshop Delivery
  • CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS Formby High School, Merseyside / Devised performance
  • CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS Blacklow Brow Primary School, Knowsley / Devising, scriptwriting & performance
  • GENIE IN THE GUTTER Liverpool / delivery of bespoke stage design course for recovering addicts
  • EVERYMAN YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP Workshop for young writers / Liverpool Everyman / Workshop Delivery

Exhibitions

  • MOMENTUM Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival / Film and Photography
  • WORLD STAGE DESIGN 2013 Selected Designer / designs for Faster
  • PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL 2007 UK Entry / designs for Orestes 2.0
  • STYGMERGY The Gallery, Liverpool / Large-scale photographs
  • TRANSFORMATION & REVELATION: UK DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE Cardiff / Exhibitor / designs for Momo and On The Rim of The World
  • ISLE OF MY INDIA World Museum, Liverpool / Video-installation & Large-scale photographs
  • COLLABORATORS: UK DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE V&A Museum / Curators Selection / designs for Orestes 2.0
  • COLLABORATORS: UK DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE Nottingham / Exhibitor / designs for Orestes 2.0 and La Serva Padrona
  • POCKET Group Show /  Site Gallery, Liverpool / Sculpture
  • LINBURY BIENNIAL PRIZE FOR STAGE DESIGN 2003 National Theatre Lyttleton Foyer / Designs for Jeff Koons
  • CHANGELING Solo Show / Dolphin Gallery, Oxford / video-installation, sculpture
  • AT HOME Solo Show / Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art / Photography
  • THE OUTER EXTREMTIES Group Show / Mary Ogilvie Gallery Oxford / Photography, drawings
  • BILDUNG Group Show / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Video art
  • RAW Group Show / Wolfson College Oxford / Drawings
  • CARDIFF ART IN TIME FESTIVAL Group Show / Video art
  • RUSKIN AND ANATOMY Group Show / Brantwood House / Drawings
  • TRUCKSTOP INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL Curated by Metal / Edge Hill Station, Liverpool / Performance Artist

Publications

  • TRANSFORMATION & REVELATION UK Design for Performance 2007 – 2011
  • COLLABORATORS UK Design for Performance 2003 – 2007

Education

  • MA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art
  • BA Design for Performance, Wimbledon School of Art

Employment

  • Freelance stage designer and artist 2002-present
  • Visiting Research Associate, Department of Music, University of York 2014-present
  • DARE Fellowship in Scenography, University of Leeds 2011-14
  • Lecturer, Central School of Speech and Drama 2009
  • Lecturer, Course Leader BA Design for Performance, Edge Hill University 2006
  • Visiting Lecturer, various HE institutions (LIPA, RWCMD, TAI Bournemouth, University of Leeds) 2007-present

 

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