2020 BFA Design for Performance alumni
NIDA acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we learn and tell stories, the Bidjigal, Gadigal, Dharawal and Dharug peoples, and we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present.
Tess is a multidisciplinary creative; she practices set and costume design, fashion art direction and styling and graphic design. Her approach involves developing highly collaborative working relationships with all artists, contributing strong conceptual and meaning-making skills.
Tess is deeply passionate about collaborating on works featuring striking new voices and perspectives in Australian and international theatre, film and television. Her design process is driven strongly by feeling, subversion and contemporary imagery, always striving for diversity and representation wherever possible within her work.
Highlights while at NIDA include assisting the team in developing the design and realisation of NIDA’s first ever Mardi Gras float, collaborating with the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) students to create Australia’s student entry in the Prague Quadrennial (2019) and working with Zoë Hollyoak (MFA (Directing)) to create triple j Unearthed winner Dugong Jr.’s music video On My Own.
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Set/Costume Designer
Antigo Nick
Co-Graphic Designer/Co-Exhibition Designer
EXPONIDA 2020
Production Designer/Costume Designer
On My Own by Dugong Jr. (triple j Unearthed music video)
Stylist
Moving On by Telescreen (triple j Unearthed music video)
Co-Set Designer/Costume Designer
Weimar Kabarett
Co-Set Designer/Costume Designer
SIX
Co-Production Designer/Co-Costume Designer
I Wish You Knew What I Was Thinking (short film)
Design Assistant/Scenic Artist
Flora
Co-Art Director
Alienated (short film)
Co-Collaborator/Artist
SWAG; Australian Student Entry, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space & Design
Set/Costume Design Assistant
Stay Happy Keep Smiling
Set Design Assistant
The Way of the World
Costume Assistant
The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Production Designer
Jellybean (AFTRS short film)
Design Assistant
Mardi Gras 2019
Costume Department
Three Thousand Years of Longing (Kennedy Miller Mitchell Films Pty Ltd)
Design Assistant
The Lord of the Flies (Sydney Theatre Company with Elizabeth Gadsby)