BIOGRAPHY

Recent Work and Credits:

• La Bayadere - restaging of the ballet for which I designed sets, costumes and lighting at New National Theatre Tokyo 2024.

• Creative Director - Light Theatre Company 2022 -

• Director and Producer for Light Theatre Company - Bloomsday and Joyce Birthday Celebrations 2024/23/22

• Printmaking at Creative Spark and Belfast Print Workshops 2022 working on ‘Remembering or Forgetting’, series

• Director and Producer Light Theatre Company - Ulysses Celebration 2nd February 2022 - Bloomsday

• Commissioned Videos - Daniel Mulhall on Ulysses and his book: A Readers Odyssey

• Director - Seth Linder’s play: The Trial of Ulysses.

• Mentor for Future Foundation - for visual artists.

• Directed Short Films: “Bananas”, “The True Myth”, “Kite Flying with Dickens”, “The Emigrant Woman’s Tale”. 2021.

• Chairman Stephen Joseph Committee of ABTT - recently retired.

• Producer online Rostrevor Bloomsday Festival 16th - 20th 2021.

• Virtual Group Exhibition - July 2021 An Táin Arts Centre.

• Creative Spark Residency Exhibition - Beneath the Surface An Táin Gallery, Dundalk 2019

• “My Place - Our Place” Project Facilitator - Film making project for young people

•  Artist in Residence - Belfast Print Workshop (June/July ’19)

• “Falling or Flying” - Solo Exhibition Down Arts Centre - (April/May 2019)

• Designs for the Theatre - Solo Exhibition - Market Place Arts Centre Gallery (January /February 2019)

• Artist in Residence - Creative Spark, Dundalk (Dec ember 2018 - February 2019)

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Design Credits Include

Costume, Set and Lighting Design

• La Bayadère - Production: Asami Maki. New National Theatre Tokyo, Japan.

• Romeo and Juliet - Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan. Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires.

• Tales of Hoffmann - Production: Peter Darrell. Asami Maki Ballet, Tokyo and Leningrad.

• Metropolis – Choreographer David Atkins. Australian Dance Theatre.

• Playing Moliere – Director: John Noble. The Stage Company, Adelaide.

• Dreams in an Empty City – Director: Ross Coli. Perth, Western Australia..

• Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Director Ken Campbell, Sci Fi Theatre of Liverpool.

Production Design/Art Director (Selected)

• The Trojan Women – Michael Caccoyanis Film – Art Director

• Run Chrissie Run – South Australian Film Corporation -

• Light 2000 – Documentary of Millennium Community Art Project - Director

• Tales of Hoffmann - Production: Peter Darrell. Australian Ballet & Scottish Ballet,

• Cantador - Choreography: Jodi Foster -CandoCo Dance Company, London.

• A Collection of Small Parts –Production: Mark Baldwin. Mark Baldwin Dance Company.

• Tributo A – Production: Eduardo Rivero. Union Dance Company, London.

• The Abduction from the Seraglio - Director: Dennis Olsen. State Opera, South Australia

• Song and Dance – Director: John Caird. Palace Theatre, London (Associate Designer).

• Anything Goes – Director: Penny Cherns: Northcote Theatre, Exeter.

• Blood Wedding – Director: Colm Ó Brian. Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

• The Glass Menagerie – Director Vincent Dowling. Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

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Consultancy and other Projects

• The Yoga Studio - Director

• Chris Harris Dance Photographic Exhibition – Theatre Museum, V & A London

• The Austradome Project - Westpac Bank, Australia.

• Living Arts Centre - Villis O'Brien Architects and Pac Poy Kneebone Consortium, Adelaide, South Australia.

• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts – Administrative Director.

• Perth Cultural Centre - Proposed Redevelopment, WA Government.

• Arts Implementation Strategy- Rockingham City Council.

• Energy Efficient House - Adelaide, South Australia.

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Exhibitions include:

• 2D>3D Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, Knapp Gallery, London.

• Linnel Associates, London.

• Galerie Decus, Nurnberg, Germany.

• PQ '91, Prague Quadrenniale. •OISTAT '89, Sydney Australia.

• Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia.

• Matilda Bay Brewery, Western Australia.

•Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia.

• New Collectibles Gallery, Fremantle, Australia.

• Forest Centre, Perth, Western Australia.

• Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, Australia.

• Lynn Seymour Workshop, London

• Art Reflections Gallery, London.

•Theatre at New End, London.

• Charles Spencer Gallery, London.

• Alan Alexander Gallery, Edinburgh

• Wright Hepburn Gallery, London.

Work in Public and Private Collections include:

  • Stassia Stakis Collection, Los Angeles and London,

  • Glasgow University, Special Collection.

  • Peter Scherer Collection, Nürnberg,

  • Linnel Associates, London,

  • Countess of Portland Collection, London, David

  • Calder Collection, Glasgow

  • Hough Collection, Western Australia,

  • Western Australian College of Advanced Education, Perth WA.,

  • Performing Arts Collection of South Australia,

  • Lynn Seymour Collection, London,

  • Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide Australia,

  • The Abbey Theatre, Dublin,

  • The Roger Brace Collection, Dinan France

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Publications include:

  • Chris Harris Dance Photographs 1976 – 1986 – For Theatre Museum London

  • Computer Aided Design and La Bayadère – for Society of British Theatre Design

  • Channel 4 - Producers Forum - for Australian Film and Television School.

  • Lotteries House Funding Proposal - Rockingham City Council.

  • Implementation Study - Rockingham City Council.

  • Perth Cultural Centre Redevelopment - Feasibility Study, Govt. W. Australia.

  • First International Symposium on Electronic Art - Utrecht.

  • The Production Design Report - WA Academy of Performing Arts.

  • Living Arts Centre Project - Govt. South Australia.

  • The John Bury Workshop - CPA Adelaide, South Australia.

  • Yoga for Energy – Published by Duncan Baird Publishers

  • Yoga for people with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus - Link Magazine Oct. 2002

Lectures include:

  • 25th Anniversary Lecture - Society of British Theatre Designers, V&A London

  • Georgiadis and Macmillan: A Fusion of Talents – Theatre Museum, London

  • Theatre Forum, Perth Western Australia.

  • John Bury Workshop – Adelaide Australia

  • OISTAT '89. – Keynote presentation

  • First International Symposium on Electronic Art. The Hague