Imagining The Future, Leeds 2023

A team of us designed the space for 'Imagining the Future 2023', an open space meeting to discuss the possibility of a European Capital of Culture bid for the city of Leeds. Together with Kizzy Davies, Hannah Wilson, Katie Winter and Carmel Woolmington, we made the city from cardboard in a grand total of 3 days.

27, Haringey Shed

I've just finished working on designing and realising '27' a new play for Haringey Shed, a modern day re-telling of Lord of the Flies at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre.

Production Photos by Tracey Anderson

 The story begins with a group of children and young people finding themselves mysteriously shipwrecked on an island. Running parallel to the original story of Lord of the Flies, suspicion and anger begins to rise amongst the many children thrust together, and tensions rise. The Makepeace family, who arrived on the island before the rest of the group are inspired by Nelson Mandela's 27 years on Robben Island, and leave clues around the island to help to bring the group together in peace.

1:25 Model of the Design

Costume Designs

Model making Workshop

SO, at the end of November, I was asked to do a model making workshop at Burton Colllege. For photography students, it was a one day project to create  a world within a box, and then to photograph it. I showed some of my work, and work of other designers, and then we set off making!

Though we overran a little (which meant the edits were shown the next day), it was great fun, and Marie and myself also created our very own world...

https://vine.co/v/hPaJzLTYxhX

On Shining Wings Model

So I must admit, I've been reminiscing a little recently about uni life in Nottingham. I really did have such fun, and find myself thinking, 'this time last year I was...'. Last night I found myself looking back on the Christmas play that I designed for Oldham Theatre Workshop (@OTWOldham) last year, for which my planning started a year ago exactly! I never did manage to get some pictures of the model I made for the show up on here, so... here we go! It's not the best angle, so for that, I apologise. However, I remember being really impressed that the space looked so much like the model that I made! 

(I know that it should, it was just my first major realisation of this fact) It dawned on me that it really is possible to conjure up something in your head, work it through in scale form, and then make it in real life.

Ah well, enough ramblings from me on the joy of tiny things!

Master and Margarita Model

Model for 'Master and Margarita', site specific work in Park Tunnel, Nottingham. Design as Occupy camp.