Spirit Of Courage
Global Grooves | 2022
Platinum Jubilee Pageant centrepiece
Lead designer and fabricator of large-scale sculptural ship installation.
Team mentoring and workshop support
Delivery to strict production timeline
Cabasa / GLobal Grooves : space/ infrastructure/ volunteers and artists
Future Leaders: supporting Artists
Mike Pattison : Mechanised cart framework
Tony Mason: Horse
Ross: Waves sculpt / Mold lead.
Supporting Artists: Mel Roberts, Lizzie , Rowan, Kate, Claire, Becky
Poppy
Nutkhut | 2024
Touring Cultural celebratory events
Giant illuminated poppy that tours cultural events across the UK.
Aluminium and silk petals mounted onto a modular aluminium base frame, with fiberoptics, el wire and Floods.
Step by step instructions on assembly/ storing and transportation
4m x 2.5m
HIBISCUS
Giant Illuminated hibiscus
Phool Bloom: Bradford LIT Festival 2023
Divali Marble Arch
Rose
Phool Bloom: Bradford LIT Festival 2023
Divali Marble Arch
Princess and the Chickpea
Nutkhut and Cirque Bijou Collaboration
This reimagined large-scale outdoor performance version of “Princess and the Pea” transports audiences from 16th-century Mughal India to modern-day Southeast Asia.
We created a giant 4 poster bed made from a combination of of scaffolding poles, aluminium poles, tube clamps, fishing rods and royal drapes, a giant, quilted , raising mattress operated by pulleys, giant props, cushions, bolsters, Giant gilded birdcage come chickpea cage and giant bed time story book. All to be installed by 2 people in under an hour, and all fitting in the back of a 4m wheelbase van.
Full handover to cast in person.
Design and making time : 6 weeks
All At Sea
Scenic/ props commission to dress boat
Our exploration of what gives meaning to life, All At Sea combined bittersweet theatre and melancholic humor in a moving and intimate performance.
The Wheelhouse
Set Designer/ Dresser
Combining striking design and theatrical acrobatics, the show unfolded within a unique, circular set as it rolled through its audience.
A tender love story set in a dystopian (but possibly not too far off) future, the show played with the confines and fragile balance of a constantly rolling wheel in an exploration of friendship, and its essential place in our perseverance and survival in extreme situations.
Exeter Unexpected
Exeter Unexpected Festival
Site specific Costume Props commission
Oceanallover
Gifting Tree
Spinning Puppet Tree Designer/ Dresser and Costume Maker -
Devizes Carnival. DOCA
Making Carnival accessible to those unable to participate in person, working in care homes, and with those experiencing early stage of dementia.
Using the idea of treasures, wishes and gifts as the overarching theme, the tree symbolises age, blossoming, growth, wisdom - decorated with leaves and flowers. These were made by participants who embossed their wishes / memories for their lives onto the aluminium leaves, using the carnival as a platform to celebrate together.
Tree shape and spinning mechanics: Tony Mason
