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EVENTS & EXHIBITION DESIGN

Curator 'Hello Stranger' Theatre Design Exhibition for SB Yorkshire Region at Leeds Playhouse and Prague Quadrennial 2023

Art Director, After Olympia Yen Wang Preston, National Exhibition, June 2023

Exhibition Design Windermere Jetty Museum, Interactive Education Space, Designed with Liz Postlethwaite for Small Things

Director/Designer Promenade Graduate Showcase, Huddersfield Art Gallery and University of Huddersfield Costume with Textiles, June 2019 (Producer)

Stylist for ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Photoshoot exhibited at The Anthony Burgess Centre, Manchester 2012 Photography by Miklos Csepely-Knorr

Director/Designer of Degree Catwalk Costume Graduate Show for University of Huddersfield Summer 2009, 2010,2011,2012,2013, 2014,2016,2017

Art Director For Visual Feast, Royal Bank of Scotland Awards, London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Edinburgh Events 2006

Set Dresser, For Visual Feast, Bank of Scotland Conference, Birmingham NEC December 2005

TEACHING

 Lecturer in Costume Design with Textiles (BA), University of Huddersfield  October 2009- Sep 2023

Visiting Lecturer for Salford University, LIPA, York University and Edinburgh Collage of Art (2007- Present)

Delivering Master classes in Costume Design for film/theatre/opera/dance/illustration techniques and life drawing.

Guest Lectures in principles of set set design and designing costume for all areas of performance. 

Assessment of degree modules at every level

Interviewing prospective candidates. 

​WORKSHOPS/FACILITATING

Manchester's 42nd Street Young Carers Charity

Workshops with young carers aged 12-18, 

Opera North - The Verve

Design workshops with young people with Aspergers Syndrome January 2013 - 2017

The Music Ambassadors Workshop, Introductory Design Workshops for Primary School Teacher,  June 2012

Library Theatre Company,‘Careers in Design’ workshop June 2011 and June 2012

Bristol Old Vic Technical Youth Theatre and Summer School Workshops 

Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Summer School Workshops

Including activities in Wardrobe,Props and Scenic Art 2005-2007  

 

 

PUBLICATIONS/EXHIBITOR

BEBE AI featured in 'Hello Stranger,' Exhibition and Publication Society of British Theatre Design /Prague Quadrennial 2023

Rhondda Rips It Up! featured in 'Staging Places' with the Society of British Theatre Design, V&A Museum 2019

Il Ritorno D'Ulisses in Patria featured in 'Make/Believe' SBTD exhibition and publication, Nottingham Trent University January 2015

 The Red Shoes Exhibited at Manchester Library Theatre Closing Gala, 2011

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