APDG member and Tony Award nominee, Peter England, is in conversation with Live Performance Committee Chair, Stephen Curtis, in this fascinating article. The brilliant work of Australia’s Live Performance designers is acknowledged here every year, through the APDG Awards and at other industry awards events. But it is an extra pleasure when an Australian designer and […]
Our beloved administrator, Caitlin, is about to leave us. This is sad news for us all as Caitlin has had a profound effect on the way the guild has performed over the two years she has been with us. Her wonderful personality, diligent attention to detail, great communication skills and work with Dan Willis and Peter Sheehan APDG […]
Australian designers and design professionals continue to shine in the screen world, notably Fiona Crombie who earlier this year received a BAFTA award and an Oscar nomination for her work on The Favourite. Fiona joins a long list of Australian production designers, costume designers and make-up designers who in recent years have picked up prestigious […]
EXTRACT FROM DESIGNER ANNA CORDINGLEY’S PUBLIC PROGRAMS LECTURE FOR QAGOMA’S INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION: ‘OF WOMEN’ CONVERSATION 6.00pm Tuesday 25 September │Gallery 9, QAG Throughout history, artists and designers have used clothing, props and ornament to shape representations of women. In this two-part event, award-winning set and costume designer Anna Cordingley talked to Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, Curatorial […]
APDG Live Performance committee member, designer, director and installation artist, Anna Tregloan, has for the last six years managed the Australian contribution to Prague Quadrennial – the prestigious 4-yearly international celebration of scenography. Here Anna reviews the 2015 Quadrennial, looks ahead to work well underway for PQ later this year 6 -16 June 2019, and […]
Live Performance Survey Live Performance Members will remember that late in 2017 we sent out a survey seeking feedback from designers on how they see their working relationship to the companies that employ us. It has taken some time to distil the results, but we would like to take this opportunity to share them with […]
Congratulations to Production Designer Fiona Crombie for her outstanding work and winning the Best Production Design BAFTA! All members of the guild are very proud of Fiona’s achievement and wish her luck for the Oscars.
The APDG President, George Liddle APDG, Vice-President Fiona Donovan APDG, State Committees, Awards Committee and judges are delighted to release the nominees for the 2018 APDG Awards. The announcement took place at the facilities of one of our valued sponsors, Yeo Creative Solutions, on Thursday 15 November. With the addition of six new categories, the […]
The Australian Production Design Guild is delighted to announce Fenella Kernebone will host the 8th Annual 2018 APDG Awards at the stunning Eternity Playhouse in Darlinghurst on Sunday 16th December. President George Liddle APDG says ‘In 2018 we have introduced 6 new categories and once again we received the highest number of outstanding entries to date, […]
Game of Thrones production designer Deborah Riley, reveals some great behind the scenes facts from the show, in a new interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. You can read the article here.