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Traditional Scenic Art for Theatre

Alice in WonderlandThe Australian Ballet, 2017. Painted at Scenografic Stusdio. Sharkstooth gacze with filled lettering.

SCENIC ART​

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2025

 

  • Tokyo, Japan- Really Useful Group, Love Never Dies

 

2019-2024

Head of Scenic Art at Opera Australia

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  • ​Shanghai, China- Really Useful Group, Love Never Dies

  • Sydney, Australia- Really Useful Group, Phantom of the Opera, World Tour

  • Melbourne Theatre Company—Bernhardt/Hamlet

  • Pinchgut Opera 

  • Belvoir Theatre

 

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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