I am an artist and theatre designer based in London and work across the UK and Europe.

From Yorkshire originally, I spent the best part of a decade in Glasgow, where I trained as a fine artist. I had explored and appropriated stagecraft in various ways throughout my art practice and so it was no surprise when I was attracted and eventually seduced by the world of theatre. 

I grew up with a passion for art, literature and history. Theatre design is an expression of all three in the sense that you are creating a history of character, space and situation, whilst finding an appropriate visual solution to the text or score. There are so many different aspects to stage design, and that in itself is half the appeal for me.

I spent a number of years working as an exhibiting artist in Scotland, whilst also working as a designer on several productions, including Snuff (Arches Theatre Company/NTS), Home:Stornoway (NTS), and Just (Glasgow Citizens/Royal Lyceum). In this period I also assisted Stewart Laing on a number of opera and theatre productions. I then moved south to study on the post-graduate Motley Theatre Design Course in London.

Since completing the course I have been a Linbury Prize finalist, and designed more shows including Rupture (Traverse/NTS), Transient (Edinburgh Festival), Don Giovanni (Festival de Berbiguieres), and Endgame (Cork Everyman and Irish tour), whilst continuing to assist on the designs for various international opera companies. I have also continued to exhibit my artwork as well as creating other work for stage including stop-frame animations for the Metropolitan Opera production of Dr Atomic in New York.

This website will hopefully operate as an online archive and reference point, demonstrating the full range of my creative output. This includes scenography, painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, play-writing,  musical composition, poetry, and model-making.

Thanks for your time.

Will

There are fuller details in my cv,  whilst I have attempted to express myself at greater length in the section entitled words. Press clippings are also available for your perusal.

 

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