SCENIC ART

 

With Scenic artist/designer parents, I grew up backstage and in many of Sydney's scenic workshops.  My love of the artform started early and I was allowed to officially begin paid work at 12 with Trowell and Balcombe in Glebe. (Mum is keen for me to point out this was not child labour, rather an abnormal level of interest on my part).

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SYDNEY:

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2019-2024

Head of Scenic Art at Opera Australia

 

2017-2019

Head of Scenic Art at The Sydney Theatre Company

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2007-2016

Since 2007 I have divided my time between design projects and scenic art, continuing to freelance for the following companies:

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• 2015-2017 The Australian Ballet—
  (at Scenografic Studio)
  Alice in Wonderland
  The Sleeping Beauty

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• 2017 Ensemble Theatre—
  The Rasputin Affair

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• 2016 Sydney Theatre Company—
  Speed the Plow
  A Flea In Her Ear
  Hamlet , Prince Of Skidmark

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• 2016 Belvoir—
  The Great Fire

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• Opera Australia

• Bangara

• Australian Museum

• Taronga Zoo

• Sydney Aquarium

• Private Commissions and shop fitouts

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LONDONS WEST END:

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2004-2007

• Saturday Night Fever—Drury Lane paint frames

• Full Circle— Drury Lane paint frames

• Aladin—Drury Lane paint frames

• Joseph & his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat—New London Theatre

• Zing Went the Strings—Doily Cart, for the QM2, Scenic effects on costumes & sewing

• Cinderella—Scenic effects on costumes & sewing, The Grange Opera

• Peter Pan—Scenic effects on costumes & sewing, Savoy Theatre, London

• Refurbishments of various repertoire productions, West End, London.

• Paint finishing & touch-ups for Kenwright Ltd.

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DUBLIN, IRELAND:

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2003-06 

Bewleys Theatre & The Oscar Wild Society:

• The Remarkable Rocket

• The Happy Prince

• The Nightingale & the Rose

• The Lilly Lally Show

• Crabbed Youth & Age

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SYDNEY/BRISBANE:

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1999-2003

OPERA AUSTRALIA. Full time Scenic Artist, under head painter Alan Stewart on the following operas:

• Rinaldo

• La Boheme

• Don Carlos

• Wozzeck

• The Gypsy Princess

• The Pearl Fishers

• Capriccio

• Simon Boccanegra

• Elixir of Love

• Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci

• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

• Der Freischutz

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Plus Refurbishment of 30 repertoire productions between 1999-2002.

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2001

• Blue Heart Stables Theatre—designed by Ralph Myers

• Shop interior Argyle Oracle. The Rocks, Sydney—designed by Bill Maron

2000

• 1000 Years of the Olympic Games. Powerhouse Museum, Sydney—designed by Stephen Curtis

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1998

• N.R.L Football Banners. Neon Graffiti

• Segaworld, Darling Harbor, Sydney.

• Scenic effects—large shopping centre display. (FX Staging).

• Death Of A Salesman, Designed by Judith Hoddinott Ensemble Theatre

• Gossamer, Ensemble Theatre

1997

• A Winters Tale—Designed by Justin Kurzel. Scenografic Studio.

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—Scenografic Studio.

• Honour—Designed by Michael Scott Mitchell. Pier Productions.

• Puppy Love—Designed by Paula Martin S.T.C.

• Football Banners. Neon Graffiti.

1996

• Tru—Marion St. Theatre. Design Graham Maclean

• Intencity—Westfields, Canberra (Stageman)

• Theatrical, scenic finishes of house interiors (on commission)

• Christmas Around The World—Display for Robina Town Centre. Gold Coast. (Themeworx).

1995

• Educating Rita—Q Theatre. Sydney, Design—Judith Hoddinott

• Animaniacs—Shopping Centre display (FX staging)

• Intencity—Westfields Shopping Centre, Parramatta and Tuggerah (Stageman)

1994

• Reg Livermore’s Red Riding Hood, The Speed Hump and the Wolf—Ensemble and Clarendon Theatres. Design- Martin/Simcox

• Hermes Ball backdrop—Sydney Showground (Design- Martin/Simcox)

1993

• Westfield Christmas displays: The Wizard of Oz, Santa’s Workshop Village and Carnival Castle. Design—Encore Production

• Odyssey—Jupiters Casino. Design—William Passmore

• Reg Livermore’s Mother Goose—Ensemble and Clarendon Theatres. Design—Martin/Simcox

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