Panto design

Puss in Boots Set and cloths design

The design is influenced by 1950s fabric prints, illustration and adverts, particularly travel posters. 

I have used block colours with sharp edges and no black outlines.

Link to The Georgian Thetare Royal Website

Finished design for 365 Leeds Stories

Between Autumn 2013 and Summer 2014, Alison Andrews and Matthew Bellwood will be working with people from all over Leeds to create a series of maps of the city. These will be produced in collaboration with a range of other artists. Maps will be sung, embroidered, floated down rivers, fixed on to buses and rendered as shadows. Each map will show the city from a different perspective.

In May 2014, the maps and the stories they tell will be presented in Leeds Central Library where they will take the form of a labyrinth, an interactive maze of maps through which new routes and journeys may be imagined.

 Finished design for the Labyrinth, for 365 Leeds Stories. 

This is the centre of the Labyrinth, with a well in the centre. People who travel through the labyrinth have the chance to leave a story in the well.

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Promised Land

If anyone is around in Leeds in June come and see this! It's a great new play, Directed by Rod Dixon, that I've designed the set for.

Some research images

Model box pictures

Frankenstein model and set

Costume sketch

Dream Play modelbox..

I have been developing the design in the model box for A dream Play,  working on a back wall structure, combining some elements of the different location and ideas that become more obvious and prominent throughout the play. The back wall also combines the door that is referred to throughout the play.  I'm currently developing the relationship between the tower and other areas with the idea of a montaged back wall.

Bittersweet Sunshine..

I have finished the model, technical drawings and costume drawings for Bittersweet Sunshine. I have the final design presentation meeting tomorrow and I will also be going to see the venue that the show will be performed at.

Here are the costume drawings...

Here  is the model..

Bittersweet Sunshine..

I have worked on the projection screen at the back of the set, this will be used for flash back scenes, where Solomon (who was a child soldier in Sierra Leone) imagines huge shadows from his former life taking over his surroundings.

Bittersweet Sunshine..

This design is for a play that I am doing with Red Ladder/Red Grit, for the emerge festival in Leeds.

The play is based on a guy called Terry who runs and English bar in the Costa Brava, his neice comes to visit him to ask questions about her Father and find out about his past.

During my research I have been looking at the photographer Martin Parr, who over saturates images of the stereotypical tourist on holiday. I also liked the idea of the Costa Brava/the bar/ their lives being very gray and dull, old and worn but having a facade that is all flashing bright over saturated, as Ben put it "hyper real". Another thing that stood out to me when researching into the bars in tacky holiday resorts is the bombardment of hand written black board sign advertising all the home comforts from England. They almost tessellate the walls of the clubs and bars.  I liked the idea of having lots of these signs, either advertising the usual fish n chips, pukka pies etc..or maybe some of the things that the hostess/rep talks about during her odd speeches!  For example "casual sex", "extreme alcohol intake" etc etc!

Under Milk Wood model box..

I have been developing the design for Under Milk Wood. Adding texture and colour to the floor and adding set dressing to show different locations and scenes.  For example currently you can see the washing that is hung up by Polly Garter. 

The floor is split into different section also mirroring the hands of a clock face and sections of a clock.

Looking for the Rainbow..

 

This is the very almost finished design!

Looking for the Rainbow..

I have reworked the floor, though may change it back to yellow, the model shows all scene changes, I have changed the river so it comes from up stage rather than down stage right. I have also added circular coloured mats for the children to sit on.

Opening scene, ironing in the house

The cave

The hook a duck fairground game

The River

Back at home..the Rainbow

 

Burglars model box and initial set..

Pericles final model continued...

I have added hand rails, extra wood supports around upper levels, finished gangway, developed main sail, developed curtain under platform, added props and boxes/crates and added a finishing net.

Pericles final model continued...

Pericles final model continued...

Pericles final model...

My very tidy desk...

I've been working on the platform's wooden deck, using a combination of very thin wood veneer, balsa wood, varnish and paint.

The Heights Model continued..

I've worked into the texture and colour of the floor, added a cut out window to the back wall and developed the downstage narration area.

The Heights Model continued..

I have added a wall covered in layers of paper, developed the floor, which is still unfinished, i would like the floor to be more of a pale green/turquoise shade in the center, the bed still needs more work and will eventually resemble a more detailed frame, (cast iron look). There are still 3 more masks to complete and design elements of costume to accompany them.

Pericles model box update..

Today I have added a wooden floor, reduced the back of the raised platform, developed the swag shape of the suspended fabric towards the back, added curtain tracks with draped muslin underneath the platform and experimented with different wood for the decking.

Pericles model box developments..

Model box developments positioned over ground plan