Profiles

Kathrine is a practitioner, academic and doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, working across live performance and the visual/audio arts. She uses predominantly space, sound, light and illusion within live performance, gallery installation and site-specific events. Commissions and collaborations nationally and internationally have included: Opera North; Liverpool International Biennial of Contemporary Art; Harare International Festival of Arts; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Tate Liverpool; Aldeburgh Music; FACT; Stephen Berkoff; Prague Festival Ballet; Video Positive; Realworld Records; Oxford Stage Company; Hemingway Design; New York ICFF, Glaxo Neurological Centre and Liverpool’s Everyman and Unity Theatres. In 2002 she created the light environment for the award winning “52 Degrees South” - opening presentation of the Imperial War Museum North and was more recently the Production Designer and Lighting Curator for Vintage at Goodwood 2010, winner of the “Best New Festival 2010”. In 2011 she was selected as one of 13 designers to represent the UK in the Prague Quadrennial and received an “International Award for Excellence in Sound Design”, the first recognition of sound as scenography in the history of PQ. Her research and teaching encompasses design for both the purpose-built and non-purpose built space, with emphasis on how the environment starts to inform our experience of the work – through light, sound, sculpting and structure. She has directed devised work with performing and non-performing students in the UK and USA, blurring the perception of conventional performance and production roles. These have included filling a white cube space with soil for ‘STATIC’ and devised response works for ‘Striptease’, ‘The New York Avant-Garde’, ‘Philadelphia Street Stories’, Kurt Weill’s ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and part of the closing ceremony for Liverpool 08, European Capital of Culture.