Poster, flyer, website banner and t-shirt design for the first Bristol Blues Exchange in July.
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Sunday, 13 April 2014
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.
Golden Snitch costume - Mark 3
Finished Golden Snitch costume for Potted Potter. This is the third version of this costume that I've made, as they have had new actors and taken the show over to America for Broadway.
The Tinderbox floor
Finished painted floor for 'The Tinderbox' at the Old Vic.
The design is a tiled floor, very decayed with dirt and burnt. I laser cut a stencil to create the pattern on the tiles.
Scenic painting assistant: Zoe Brennan
Set design by Rosanna Vize
Set design by Rosanna Vize
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Profiterole samples
Over the weekend I worked on some samples of prop profiteroles for a children's puppetry T.V show.
I adapted the foam gun with a piping nozzle.
I've used expanding foam, paint and latex.
I think this method could work really well for all confectionary and cakes.
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Puss in Boots 2014 at the Georgian Theatre Royal
I have started work on the set and props design for This tyears Panto at the Georgian Theatre Royal 'Puss in Boots'. I'm very happy to be working with the same creative/production team as Cinderella. This years Panto will be set in the 1950's, here are some of my research images:
Here is a link to my Pinterest board for Puss in Boots with lots more research images and ideas:
Raree man Peepshow project with Promenade Productions
I am currently working with Tony Lidington on a Raree man Peepshow project.
I will be designing the peepshow box, cart & internal designs
A bit about the show from Tony:
The
Raree Man
The
peepshow was one of the most popular forms of street entertainment in the 18th
and 19th centuries - not only depicting scenes for amusement, but often as a
medium to educate, showcase exotic locations and inform a captive audience
about key events past and present. We believe this is the perfect medium to
engage with the contemporary passing public– a show that is at once
interruptive and intimate, familiar and unexpected…an immersive experience in
miniature!
The
Raree Show will be
a live performance of a fully mobile, self-contained peepshow for the Twenty-First
Century. The peepshow will display a series of re-imagined automated tales
using pre-cinematic techniques on a contemporary theme. In keeping with
Promenade Promotions’ mission to develop historical popular entertainment forms
and present them in contemporary contexts.
The show will be performed out of doors and the
audience invited to interact with the peepshow by the Raree Man (showman
Tony Lidington) who will narrate and dramatise the peepshow’s scenes
Tony Lidington
Some research images:
365 Leeds Stories
I am currently designing an installation for '365 Leeds Stories'.
Some research images:
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.
Here is a link to the project website:
Click here: 365 leeds stories
I have been collecting lots of research images and pinning them to my Pinterest board:
Click here: 365 LS Pinterest Board
'Little Red Riding Hood' painted dance floor scenic painting
In february I painted this dance floor, assisted by Ria Wilcox and Dean Sudron,
for 'Little Red Riding Hood', designed by Laura McEwen.
http://www.lauramcewen.co.uk/
X factor the musical 'I can't Dance' - Costumes
In February I made these hand sewn fried breakfast items, including tomatoes, eggs and sausages for a fried breakfast dress.
Jill Molynueux and I made these three sunflower head pieces.
http://www.jagprops.co.uk/
Book of Mormon 2014 God Cloak
In January I made a new God cloak for The Book of Mormon, as they had a new taller actor.
For Jagprops. http://www.jagprops.co.uk/
Cinderella opens!
More photos to come...
Written and directed by Tony Lidington
Costumes designed and made by Naomi Parker
Set and Props designed and made by Kelly Jago
A few reviews:
Northern Echo/British Theatre Guide - Helen Brown:
"PANTO is the last refuge of the old variety performances when music hall was king. Where better to put the nation’s favourite, and the oldest traditional Christmas pantomime, than in this beautiful little theatre.
And what a panto, I’ll go as far as saying that it’s the very best panto I’ve ever seen.
Director Tony Lidington knows a thing or three about theatre and it shows. He uses shadow puppetry to cover the early scene-setting story to great effect."
"The use of the historical woodland scene backcloth was a masterstroke from designer Kelly Jago, even though the copy cloth is probably more tatty than the original, she complimented it with some extraordinary painted scenery in the kitchen and I think Jago has probably got glitter in her veins - I bet she glued glitter to macaroni as a child."
The Stage - Kevin Berry:
"This is a visually beautiful pantomime, rather than merely pretty, that will live long in the memory."
Teesdale Mercury:
The sets and costumes are perfect throughout and the children as sprites are an absolute delight even if just a touch scary.
If you don't know of the Georgian Theatre Royal have a look at this tour of the Theatre:
Painting the Cinderella cloths at the Bristol Old Vic
I hired the Bristol Old Vic paint frame for 5 weeks to paint 4 cloths @ 4m x4.5m, 1 title cloth @ 3m x 3m, 2 border @ 1.5m x 4.5m, 4 legs @ 1m x 4m and some set pieces:
Ballroom
Boudoir
Kitchen
Floor
Front cloth and title cloth
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