Designing for stage and screen requires a special set of skills and considerations. Hear how our experts in fashion and design work with directors, choreographers and performers to design sets and costumes and how innovation is helping to create transformative spaces.

Featuring artists representing the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct: Bangarra Dance Theatre, Bell Shakespeare Company, Sydney Dance Company and the Sydney Theatre Company.

SXSW Track: Screen | Fashion Beauty & Lifestyle

Moderator:
Karen Rogers, Director of Arts, Create NSW
Karen is the Director of Arts at Create NSW, a role that feeds her passion and commitment for championing and strengthening the NSW arts and cultural sector, while also supporting artists and arts workers through focussed funding program reform.

Karen’s varied career has encompassed roles in producing, programming, management and policy, including senior positions at organisations such as: Creative Australia, Griffin Theatre Company, Seymour Centre, Force Majeure, Performing Lines and the Olympics Arts Festival.

Panellists:
Elizabeth Gadsby, Artist and Set Designer
Elizabeth Gadsby is an artist and set designer. She primarily creates work for live performance including Theatre, Dance, Ballet and Opera. She lives in the Blue Mountains working on Darug, Gundungurra, and Gadigal land. Her background in installation and site specific works influences her design process, lending itself to works of scale.

Jake Nash, Designer and Artist
Jake's ancestral land is Daly River (Mother's side), he also has Chinese and Scottish heritages. Raised on Quandamooka Country, he's lived across the Eora Nation for 20 years. His work spans Theatre, Film, TV, Fine Art, and Public Art, creating iconic images from a First Nations perspective.

Akira Isogawa, Designer
Born in Kyoto Japan. Akira moved to Sydney in 1986. Debuting in 1996 at Australian Fashion Week, and Paris Fashion Week 1999, he placed himself on the world map as a fashion designer. His powerful creative force has seen him collaborate across multiple platforms, including designing costumes for the Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance Company.

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