Recent News & Events:
- Degree Exhibitions and Shows 2013
- NTU hosting Transformation & Revelation until 10th May
- Transformation & Revelation at Nottingham Trent University
From the Blue Pages:
NTU hosting Transformation & Revelation until 10th May:
8 April – 10 May 2013
This touring exhibition created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in collaboration with the Society of British Theatre Designers celebrates the work of over 30 of the most pioneering British theatre designers, architects and artists
The selected works on show ranges from costumes for live opera and drama to video projections for stadium music concerts and illustrates how each designer looks for new ways to transform space, light, sound and body for the stage.
Transformation and Revelation features drawings, photographs, scale models and costumes, as well as sound, lighting and multi-media installations to present the distinct personal vision and inspiration of each of the designers.
Highlights include Rae Smith’s digital projections from the National Theatre’s West End production of War Horse (2007); Antony Gormley’s creative process for the dance work Sutra produced by Sadler’s Wells (2008) and photographs and models of Es Devlin’s design for Lady Gaga’s Monsterball Tour (2009- 2010).
Exhibitors
To view the list of exhibitors please visit the exhibitor page.
Exhibition venue and opening times
For further details about the exhibition please visit the NTU events pages.
Contact us
For further details about this exhibition please call 0115 8488268 or email us.
Degree Exhibitions and Shows 2013:
Arts University Bournemouth
Wallisdown, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5HH
BA (Hons) Costume with Performance Design
Private view 20th June (6 – 9pm)
Open to public from the 21st – 28th June 10 – 5pm.
There is an open day on the 22nd June from 9.30 – 3.30pm.
A selection of work from BA Costume with Performance Design
will also be exhibited at Prime Cuts, New Designers Part 2
Business Design Centre, Islington, London N1 0QH
Extra Details: http://www.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/link=328
Wednesday 3 July:
15:00-21:00 VIP, Press & Premium Tickets
18:30 – 21:00 Awards Preview Evening
Thursday 4 July: 10:00-20:00.
Friday 5 July: 10:00-18:00
Saturday 6 July: 10:00-18:00
BIAD Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University, BIAD, Corporation Street, Gosta Green
Birmingham. B4 7DX
BA (Hons) Theatre, Performance and Event Design
Private View and Industry Evening
Wednesday 12/06/13: 18:00 – 20:00
Open to the public: Monday 10/06/13 – Friday 14/06/13: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday 15/06/13: 10:00 – 16:00
Cambridge School of Art
East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT
BA (Hons) Film & Television Production, Film, TV and Theatre Design
Friday 7 June – Friday 14 June (including Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 June)
Opening Times: Weekdays 10.00 – 20.00; Weekends 10.00 – 16.00
Venue: Ruskin Gallery, Balcony and Studios
Private View: Thursday 6 June, 18.00 – 21.00
Central Saint Martins
Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, Greater London N1C 4AA
BA Performance Design and Practice
Private View 18/6 from 6 – 10pm
Open to public 19/6, 20/6, 21/6 from 12noon – 8pm + 22/6 & 23/6 from
12noon – 6pm.
Cleveland College of Art and Design
Hartlepool Campus, Church Square Hartlepool, TS24 7EX.
BA( Hons) Entertainment Design Crafts.
Church Square, Main Building
Friday 7th to Sat 8th June 2013
10.00am till 4.00pm
Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th June 2013
10.00am till 8.00pm
Thursday 13th to Saturday 15th of June 2013
10.00am till 4.00pm.
FdA Costume Construction for Stage and Screen
Hartlepool Art Gallery, Church Square, Hartlepool
Friday 7th to Sat 25th of June 2013
10.00am till 5.00pm every day
Closed Sunday and Monday.
Edge Hill University
The Lowry Theatre, The Quays Salford M50
June 6
Exclaim showcases work from media, performing arts, creative writing, computing, film, television and advertising
IADT (Institute of Art Design and Technology) part of the National Film School of Ireland,
Kill Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
First graduate show of students studying on the Design for Stage and Screen programme and who specialise in one of three strands, Production Design, Costume Design and Make-up Design.
Thurs. 6th June – Thurs 12th June.
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Mount Street, Liverpool, L1 9HF
BA(Hons)Theatre and Performance Design/Theatre&Performance Technology
Portfolio reception on Wednesday 5th June 5.00 – 7.30pm. Anyone wishing to attend should email Ashley Shairp (a.shairp@lipa.ac.uk)
London College of Fashion
Factory 7 -11 Hearn St off Curtain Rd EC2A 3LS
BA Costume for Performance, BA Make-up and Prosthetics for Performance, BA Technical Effects for Performance
Thursday 27th June, 12-5pm, Private View 6-9pm
Friday 28th June 12-9pm
Saturday 29th June 11-2pm
Nottingham Trent University
Waverley Building, Nottingham Trent University, Burton St, Nottingham, NG1 4BU
Theatre Design BA and Costume Design & Making BA
Private View Thursday 30 May 5-9pm
Open Friday 31 May to Saturday 8 June 2013
Monday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 11 am – 4 pm
Contacts: Kate Burnett or Patrick Connellan
RADA
Theatre Entrance, Malet Street. London WC1
Postgraduate Theatre Set and Costume Design Exhibition
Industry Night: Wednesday 3rd July, 6pm – 10pm
Public Viewing: Thursday 4th & Friday 5th July, 10am-2pm & 3pm – 5pm
Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance
School of Design, Management and Technical Arts
The Bargehouse , London Southbank Private view Wednesday June 5th, 6-9pm.
Open to the public 10am – 9pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6th to 8th June.
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama | Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru
Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ER
Preview 14th June (opening night) – 23rd June in Cardiff at RWCMD
And at the Bargehouse, Southbank, London
27th June (opening at 7.00 pm) – 30th of June (closes 4pm)
Wimbledon College of Art Merton Hall Rd, London SW19 3QA
BA (Hons)Theatre – Costume Design, Costume Interpretation, Set Design for Screen, Technical Arts and Special Effects, Theatre Design.
Private View: Thursday 13 June, 18.00 – 21.00
14 – 22 June 2013 (closed Sunday 16 June)
Opening times: Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 20.00 / Saturday: 11.00 – 17.00
Transformation & Revelation at Nottingham Trent University:
8 April – 10 May 2013
This touring exhibition created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in collaboration with the Society of British Theatre Designers celebrates the work of over 30 of the most pioneering British theatre designers, architects and artists
The selected works on show ranges from costumes for live opera and drama to video projections for stadium music concerts and illustrates how each designer looks for new ways to transform space, light, sound and body for the stage.
Transformation and Revelation will feature drawings, photographs, scale models and costumes, as well as sound, lighting and multi-media installations to present the distinct personal vision and inspiration of each of the designers.
Highlights include Rae Smith’s digital projections from the National Theatre’s West End production of War Horse (2007); Antony Gormley’s creative process for the dance work Sutra produced by Sadler’s Wells (2008) and photographs and models of Es Devlin’s design for Lady Gaga’s Monsterball Tour (2009- 2010).
Exhibitors
To view the list of exhibitors please visit the exhibitor page.
Exhibition venue and opening times
For further details about the exhibition please visit the NTU events pages.
Contact us
For further details about this exhibition please call 0115 8488268 or email us.
The life and work of Richard Negri:
A story of British theatre during the second half of the 20th century from the perspective of one of its foremost designers.
Published by the Society, this book is written by Negri’s former student and colleague, David Burrows.
Copiously illustrated, the book draws on the author’s exclusive access to the personal archive of designs, production photographs, press reviews, magazine articles and ephemera of the theatre designer Richard Negri (1927-1999), now housed in the archive centre at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London. The narrative is strongly supported by, and is interwoven with transcripts of interviews with Negri’s former colleagues, associates and students. The complete interviews by Lydia O’Ryan (financially supported research funding from the University of the Arts, London) with the actor Bernard Cribbins, director Frank Dunlop, lighting designer Richard Pilbrow, writer Ronald Harwood and actor/musician/teacher George Hall are now part of the British Library’s Oral History collection. There are additional transcripts of further interviews by the author with colleagues, students and Negri’s family members.
Significant productions are included from Negri’s oeuvre: from his student days at the Old Vic Theatre School under Michel Saint-Denis, collaborations with George Devine at the Royal Court Theatre – notably, Sartre’s ‘Nekrassov’ (with Robert Helpman) and Chekov’s ‘Platonov’ (with Rex Harrison) – landmark productions with director Michael Elliott – ‘Brand’ with Patrick McGoohan in 1959, ‘As You Like It’ at Stratford in 1961, (launching Vanessa Redgrave’s career), ‘Peer Gynt’ at London’s Old Vic (with Leo McKern), and ‘Miss Julie’ at Chichester and London’s Old Vic (with Maggie Smith and Albert Finney).
The lasting legacy of Negri’s vision is his design for the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and the design process and thinking that led to this extraordinary building is explored as well as previously unpublished material on designs for a new, but unrealised, stand-alone theatre in Manchester that was a precursor to the Royal Exchange.
Negri spent several years teaching at Wimbledon School of Art and his influence on generations of designers for theatre, film and television cannot be underestimated. Several of his graduates offer illuminating analysis of his teaching and the impact on their subsequent careers.
Clicking on the link below gives access to a preview of the entire book.
NB Discount codes are often available for Blurb books and can be found via an internet search. The books are printed individually and are, therefore, relatively expensive, so use of a discount code is strongly advised as 15%+ can be saved!
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WSD2013 World Stage Design:
World Stage Design 2013
www.wsd2013.com
World Stage Design 2013 is a celebration of international performance design from the world of theatre, opera and dance which will take place in Cardiff, UK between 5 – 15 September 2013, hosted by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
There are several opportunities for performance designers to get involved, as applications are now open for the World Stage Design exhibition, a competition to design a sustainable theatre, and opportunities to bring a performance to Scenofest, part of World Stage Design 2013.
Online application to exhibit at World Stage Design 2013 in Cardiff is now open.
WSD2013 will include an international design exhibition. Exhibitors will be selected to take part in the World Stage Design 2013 exhibition by a panel of international judges, and must apply online through the World Stage Design website http://www.wsd2013.com.
The exhibition application process is open to any performance based designer and is open to all: established professionals, emerging artists and students.
All designs submitted for the WSD2013 exhibition must be of performances that have been taken to final realised outcomes between the dates of March 2009 and March 2013.
Application to exhibit at the WSD2013 exhibition is now open online and will close at midnight (GMT) on March 15 2013 The World Stage Design 2013 exhibition will explore the diversity of capturing design, and encourages designers to explore the breadth of possible presentation modes. It will support exhibitors who are proposing new presentation techniques, alongside the more traditional displays of models, photographs, costume, props and drawings. All exhibition applicants will have their work displayed on the World Stage Design 2013 online design gallery.
Each year the event awards gold, silver and bronze prizes to selected exhibitors. Past winners of World Stage Design have included designers Monica Raya (Mexico), Liu Xinglin (China) and Jorge Ballina (Mexico).
Deadlines:
Online application is now open. Digital submissions must be received by midnight (GMT) on March 15 2013
Contact details:
email: info@wsd2013.com
Full guidelines, entry fee details and online application can be found at
Could You Design a Sustainable Theatre?
Online application is now open for a competition to design a temporal sustainable theatre, to be built in Cardiff, as part of the World Stage Design 2013 festival.
This competition is open to students and emerging practitioners from across all related disciplines; theatre architects, technicians and scenographers should all see this as an opportunity to develop and apply their practice. Collaborative proposals are also welcome.
The winning design will be built in the courtyard of the Anthony Hopkins Centre and will be used as a major venue to house performances, presentations and seminars during the World Stage Design 2013 festival. The theatre must seat between 100 and 150 people. The structure must be weather and soundproof and be designed using either existing and readily available building components or alternative sustainable elements. Full entry details and online application is available on the website http://www.wsd2013.com/competition/
All entries will be exhibited in the WSD2013 online gallery, a further ten shortlisted entries will be exhibited in Cardiff during the event
Deadlines:
Online application is now open. Digital submissions must be received by midnight (GMT) on March 15 2013
Contact details:
email: info@wsd2013.com
Online application: http://www.wsd2013.com/competition/
Bring a performance to World Stage Design 2013
WSD2013 will feature Scenofest, an extraordinary festival of performance and design with a diverse programme of events that will include live performances and performance art installations alongside lectures, workshops and seminars to be led by some of the most influential figures working in the industry today.
Companies and artists from the UK and around the world are being invited to apply to bring performances to Scenofest, WSD2013. Applications are encouraged from a broad range of work, and could include collective or solo shows, live art and installation, public participation pieces and everything in between.
Designers or scenographers who are taking the lead in developing performance projects and who create performance with the visual or the object as their starting point are strongly encouraged to apply, whether as solo artists or leaders of companies.
Applicants to this strand of WSD 2013 should consider sustainability as being at the core of contemporary practice. This could be demonstrated in a number of ways including innovative touring methods, materials used, subject matter or using theatre without walls.
The festival will host the selected events at various performance venues in and around the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. This includes a sustainable theatre venue built for the event, traditional theatre spaces including the Richard Burton Theatre and the Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall and site specific spaces in and around Cardiff. (Technical, administration and front of house support will be provided by the festival)
All applicants will need to demonstrate a willingness to share their practice by further exchange with their audience via talkback, workshop or presentation.
Applications are welcome from practitioners at every stage in their career – from students through to established artists.
WSD2013 are also keen to hear from artists interested in bringing stand-alone workshops or presentations to the event.
Companies and artists selected to perform will be able to present their work to both UK and international audience members in one of the most exciting international performance events taking place in the UK next year.
Applications are now open.
Deadlines:
Online application is now open.
Applications must be received by midnight (GMT) on March 15 2013
Contact:
email: performance@wsd2013.com
More details and application guidelines here: http://www.wsd2013.com/scenofest/be-part-of-scenofest/
WSD2013 is hosted by the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and is supported by the Welsh Government, OISTAT, the Ministry of Culture Taiwan, & the Society of British Theatre Designers.
From the Page to the Stage: A theatre design workshop:
This fun and revealing workshop allows you to actively participate in the process of realising a real stage production from the first reading of the script to the opening night.
With two expert stage designers from the Society of British Theatre Designers, you will have the opportunity to design a theatre set model. The workshop will provide a box full of artifacts, photographs, drawings, props and documents to help you explore the unique complexity and creativity that goes into producing a theatrical stage design.
Organised to coincide with the V&A and Society of British Theatre Designers’ exhibition Transformation & Revelation : From Gormley to Gaga :UK Design for Performance 2007-2011 at Summerhall.
Suitable for participants of all levels, no previous experience required.
Making a Scene: The Anatomy of Theatre Design Symposium:
January 25th 2013
14.30-17.30
Summerhall, Edinburgh
Tickets £12 or £6 concessions
A symposium for performance design practitioners, their collaborators and students of all design for performance related disciplines in association with the Society of British Theatre Designers and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
How and where will we be making work in the future? Will it be in a nation, a region or a country or as global flâneurs? Who will our collaborators be ? Makers, hackers, scientists, gamblers, astronomers, engineers, physicists? Are we on the brink of a new enlightenment or are we working out how to survive the end of the world as we know it?
Join us in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at Summerhall to dissect these and many other questions with our panel of speakers, Becky Minto, Kate Nelson and Stewart Laing. Following this a special Burns reception with entertainment.
Celebrate the residency of the SBTD/V&A exhibition Transformation & Revelation: From Gormley to Gaga : UK Design for Performance 2007 – 2011 in this amazing venue by joining us for Burns Night delicacies and entertainment.
SBTD Young Designers meeting:
IMPORTANT: This meeting has been postponed due to bad weather. We will reschedule and post a new date here asap.
The SBTD is hosting an informal meeting for young designers at the Young Vic Theatre on Monday, 21st January, from 6.15pm to 7.15pm.
The meeting point is the Young Vic Box Office.
The meeting will be an opportunity to have a look at the rehearsal space for the new production by fevered sleep, Above Me The Wide Blue Sky, and to talk to members of the creative team about the collaborative process. The SBTD is extending this invitation to the Young Vic’s Young Directors scheme, so there will also be opportunities to network and to share experiences and ideas with other young directors and designers.
We will also talk about the upcoming World Stage Design 2013 in Cardiff, and the next National Exhibition of Theatre Design, taking place in 2015, with a view to exploring new ways of exhibiting and sharing young designers’ and directors’ process and work.
Links:
www.wsd2013.com
www.feveredsleep.co.uk
SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR £10,000 SET AND COSTUME AWARD:
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill designed by Jean Chan at
The Southwark Playhouse
JEAN CHAN, CHLOE LAMFORD and TIM SPOONER have been shortlisted for the
2013 Design for Peformance (Set and Costume) Fellowship.
The winner of the award will be announced on the 24th January at the Arts Foundation Awards 2013 by Antony Gormley, trustee of the Arts Foundation who says;
‘The selection of artists shortlisted for the 2013 awards have proved what extraordinary talent we have in the UK today. Although only one artist will go through to win the award their original nomination and then selection onto the shortlist already proves that the are producing notable work and we are very proud to announce the line-up in all categories awarded this year.’
The judges for Design for Performance who selected the three designers from a longlist of nominated artists were judges Es Devlin (Designer), Matthew Dunster (actor, director and writer) and Richard Hudson (Designer).
Previous winners of theatre related fellowships include Katrina Lindsay (Costume Design 2005) Rufus Norris (2002) and Clare Lizzimore (2009) for theatre directing.
The Foundation is celebrating its 20th year of supporting emerging artists this year with a superlative shortlist of artists across 6 artforms who have shown great promise through their existing work. £10,000 fellowships in Composition for Musicals, Printmaking, Screenwriting, Still Life Photography and Sculpture will also be awarded this year.
For more information about the Awards or to obtain images from the shortlisted artists please contact Shelley Warren on 030 0123 3042 or info@artsfoundation.co.uk. Website www.artsfoundation.co.uk.
The Arts Foundation
The Arts Foundation exists to help artists and celebrate the existence of art. Since the inception of its Fellowship Scheme with an anonymous bequest twenty years ago, the Trust has awarded over £1.4m supporting numerous artists from the fields of Performing and Visual Arts, Crafts, Literature, New Media, Film and Design. Its remit is specific – to support the individual artist. Awards of £10,000 are made to talented, emerging artists at a time in their careers when they have shown commitment to, and reached some standing in, their artform. At this critical stage a period of relative security in order to explore new avenues or consolidate existing work is often crucial. Awards are made on the basis of both talent and need to artists living and working in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
BIOGRAPHIES ON SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS
JEAN CHAN
As a recent graduate Jean secured a sought after place on the apprenticeship programme at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her skills were further tested a year later when she applied for the Linbury Prize where her final task was to design a set for The Garbage King, directed by Rosamund Hutt. The set involved recreating a landfill site where recycled puppets, costumes and scenes would spring out of the debris and for this feat she won the coveted prize in 2011.
Jean went on to assist other designers including Katrina Lindsay and Jon Bauser with whom she worked on the Paralympics Opening Ceremony. She has created sets for The Hairy Ape and The Irish Giant at Southwark Playhouse, Hamlet YPS at the RSC and Alice by Heart at the Lyric LYC.
CHLOE LAMFORD
Chloe has designed sets and costume for film, opera and theatre working with directors such as Lies Pauwels, Liam Steel and Mike Figgis. Her exploration into more abstract design started with It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It Is All Right Now by Lucy Kirkwood where her design took the form of a walk-through installation exploring the experiences of a young girl trafficked into the sex industry. Spaces ranged from an elevated Perspex tunnel symbolising a lost visit to Brighton to a warehouse strewn with plastic wrapped goods representing the material objects the protagonist so desired. She went on to design for Knives in Hens (National Theatre, Scotland) and Salt, Root and Roe (Donmar Warehouse) allowing her to explore even further the abstract in design.
TIM SPOONER
While studying for his degree in Design for Performance Tim worked as part of a collaborative company mainly producing shows based on Punch and Judy.
Making these shows cemented the importance of the handmade in his work where subtle decisions are made in the making so that the process is a physical exploration akin to painting or sculpture.
After leaving college he used his own design-led solo shows to explore his ideas in their purest form and to demonstrate object-based visual languages. For the last two years he has been working as a designer in the more traditional sense. Projects include Ladies and Gentlemen at the Wales Millennium Centre directed by Lea Anderson, Tall Tales Tours for dance group The Cholmondeleys at the South Bank and Lullaby at the Barbican
Transformation & Revelation exhibition in Edinburgh:
Billy Budd, Glyndebourne. Set and costume designer Chirs Oram. (c) Alastair Muir
Times: 11am till 6pm Daily (Please note that the Summerhall Galleries will be closed on the public holidays that fall over the festive period.)
Following a successful six month residency at the V&A Museum in London, Transformation & Revelation will be opening at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Thirty-three large specially designed vitrines showcase the fascinating work of British stage and theatre designers on famous productions.
In this wide-ranging and intriguing exhibition, the drawings, plans and above all the imagination of those who create creating the mystery behind a show are revealed in magical ways.
Es Devlin’s stage and set designs for Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball World Tour are here, as are Antony Gormley’s settings for the Sadler’s Wells ballet, Sutra. Joanna Scotcher’s reworking of the much loved Christmas classic film, The Railway Children, for Waterloo Station Theatre reminds one of a heroic and simpler past while Connor Murphy’s minimalist opera design for The Magic Flute, which bewildered South Korean audiences, can be mused over. Warhorse and Billy Budd are also shown here with original models, drawings and video clips from the shows.
Summerhall is the former Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh. It is situated on the eastern corner of the Meadows, a short walk from the Royal Mile and other major festival venues – including Pleasance, Assembly George Square and Udderbelly.
Summerhall,
1 Summerhall
Edinburgh,
EH9 1PL
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Box Office: 0845 874 3001
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