Kim Carpenter

Kim David Carpenter AM is an Australian visual artist, theatre director, designer and devisor. For thirty years he was artistic director of his company, Kim Carpenter's Theatre of Image.[1]

Early life

Carpenter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1950.[2] He moved to Sydney as a teenager to train as a painter.[3] He studied production at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1968 and 1969.[2] He also studied at Motley Theatre Design Course in London in 1971.[4]

Biography

During the 1970s, Carpenter designed for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney's Nimrod Theatre Company. He was, for a short period, co-Artistic Director of Nimrod along with John Bell and Neil Armfield in the early 1980s.[5]

In 1988, Carpenter established Theatre of Image as Sydney's first visual theatre company. Theatre of Image has developed into a leading Australian theatre company for children and families, with its productions having a distinctive visual style.[6][7] In September 2019 he announced the closure of the company.[8]

His work includes The Book of Everything[9] which he created with Neil Armfield for Theatre of Image and Belvoir. The production toured Australia and played a season in New York at the New Victory Theater.[10]

In 2019 he adapted and designed The Happy Prince[11] as a ballet for The Australian Ballet.[12] It premiered at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre In February 2019[13]

Carpenter was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2013 for significant service to the performing arts.[14][15]

Carpenter has devised, directed or designed over 100 productions for theatre, opera, dance, physical theatre, ballet and puppetry.[16]

Awards

Member The Order of Australia (AM)
Lifetime Achievement Award Australian Production Designers Guild
2 Helpmann Awards
3 Australian Writers' Guild Awards
4 Sydney Theatre Awards 2011, 2012
2 Green Room Awards
Centenary Medal Australia
Arts Hub Award

Study Awards

Australian Artist-in-Residence Atelier Artistique International de Seguret, France
Australia Council Travel Grant New York to work with Robert Wilson
Loudon Sainthill Scholarship Europe
Churchill Fellowship (puppetry) to visit Japan, France, Holland & UK

Independent Works

Year Production Role Partnerships
1970 Death of a Salesman Designer The Old Tote Theatre Co, UNSW Drama Foundation
1970 The Breasts of Tiresias Designer University of Sydney, Footbridge Theatre
1970 This Story of Yours Designer The Old Tote Theatre Co, UNSW
1973 Lysistrata Designer The Old Tote Theatre Co, UNSW Drama Foundation
1973 The American Dream Designer Q Theatre Co
1974 Oh, What a Lovely War! Designer Rusden State College
1974 Time Director Rusden State College
1978 Bon-Bons and Roses for Dolly Designer Playbox
1983 Beyond Mozambique Designer Festival of Sydney
1983 Rapunzel in Suburbia Adaptor, Director, Designer Marionette Theatre
1985 The Little Mermaid (Boyd) Director, Designer The Australian Opera
1986 An Imaginary Life Adaptor, Director, Designer Belvoir
1986 Fantastic Toys Designer Australian Dance Theatre
1987 Away Designer State Theatre Co of SA
1988 A Moon Between Two Houses Designer Kite Theatre Co, QLD Tour
1988 Sun-Hunters Director, Designer Dancenorth, Festival of Sydney, Australian Bicentennial Authority
1988 The Pathfinder Director World Expo on Stage
1991 Earthly Paradise Director, Designer Malthouse
1995 Last Days Of A Famous Mime Devisor, Director, Designer SYDNEY STORIES Sydney Theatre Co, Sydney Festival
1996 Lift off Live Designer Australian Children's Television Foundation, Sydney Festival, national tour
2020 The Happy Prince Ballet Adaptor, Designer Queensland Symphony Orchestra, The Australian Ballet
2024 Incredibilia Adaptor, Director, Designer Riverside Theatres, State Library of NSW

For The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

Year Production Role Partnerships
1968 Dark of the Moon Designer Jane Street Theatre
1968 Right You Are (If You Think So) Stage Manager University of NSW, Old Tote Theatre (1963-1969)
1968 The Matchmaker Designer The ABC Concert Department, Elizabethan Theatre Trust, UNSW
1969 Lock Up Your Daughters Designer
1969 Rooted Designer The Old Tote Theatre Co, UNSW Drama Foundation
1969 Spurt of Blood Director Jane Street Theatre
1969 The Rise and Fall of Boronia Avenue Designer The Old Tote Theatre Co, UNSW, UNSW Drama Foundation
1979 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Designer Jane Street Co, Sydney Theatre Co, Sydney Opera House Trust
1988 Veneer Director The Adelaide Festival of Arts
1988 Veneer 2 Director

For The Melbourne Theatre Company

Year Production Role Partnerships
1972 Danton's Death Designer Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The University of Melbourne
1972 Father Dear, Come Over Here Designer Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The University of Melbourne
1972 The Chocolate Frog Designer Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The University of Melbourne
1972 The Old Familiar Juice Designer Elizabethan Theatre Trust, The University of Melbourne
1973 Jugglers Three Designer Canberra Melbourne & Sydney
1978 Just Between Ourselves Designer Melbourne
1978 Richard III Designer The University of Melbourne
1978 The Beaux' Stratagem Designer The University of Melbourne
1978 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Designer The University of Melbourne
1982 Crimes of the Heart Designer The University of Melbourne
1983 Gulls Designer The University of Melbourne
1983 Slice Devisor, Director, Designer The University of Melbourne
1995 Blabbermouth Designer Arena Theatre Co
1993 & 1995 Two Weeks with the Queen Designer Sydney Theatre Co & tour

For Nimrod Theatre

Year Production Role Partnerships
1974 How Does Your Garden Grow? Designer
1975 You Want It Don't You Billy? Designer
1976 All Over Designer
1977 Much Ado About Nothing Designer
1977 Twelfth Night Designer
1979 On Our Selection Designer Festival of Sydney
1979 The Life of Galileo Designer
1980 The House of the Deaf Man Designer
1980 The Oresteia Designer
1980 Volpone Designer
1981 Three Sisters Designer
1984 Salonika Designer
1985 A Midsummer Night's Dream Director, Designer
1976 & 1977 Travesties Designer
1981 & 1983 Slice Devisor, Director, Designer Melbourne Theatre Co

For Theatre of Image

Year Production Role Partnerships
1988 The Sky Wizard Devisor, Director, Designer World Expo on Stage
1989 Colours of Desire Devisor, Director, Designer Art Gallery of NSW
1989 Hello Devisor, Director, Designer Sydney Theatre Co
1990 Swimming in Light... The world of Lloyd Rees Devisor, Director, Designer Melbourne Theatre Co, National Gallery of Australia, Caracas International Theatre Festival, Seymour Centre Sydney
1990 Wanted Pictures Devisor, Director, Designer Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Biennale
1992 The Last Stop Devisor, Director, Designer Art Gallery of NSW
1994 Carnival of the Animals Devisor, Director, Designer Sydney Theatre Co
1994 White Heat Devisor, Director, Designer The Art Gallery of NSW
1995 Pierrot and Columbine Adaptor, Director, Designer Sydney Theatre Co
1997 Vivaldi's Ring Of Mystery Devisor, Director, Designer The Sydney Symphony Orchestra at Sydney Opera House
1999 Exotic Pleasures Devisor, Director, Designer Sydney
2000 Grandma's Shoes Director, Designer Opera Australia
2001 The Gypsy Boy Devisor, Director, Designer Sydney
2002 Mad Bad and Spooky Director, Designer Sydney Festival
2004 Tales from the Arabian Nights Designer Sydney and tour
2005 Stella and the Moon Man Director, Designer Australian Youth Orchestra, , Sydney Theatre Co
2007 Lulie the Iceberg Director, Designer Kageboushi Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Co
2008 Pixel and Friends ... the colour show Devisor, Director, Designer Powerhouse Museum
2011 Snow On Mars Creator, Designer Sydney Festival
2019 Brett & Wendy... A Love Story Bound by Art[17] Creator, Director, Designer,Writer Riverside Theatres, Sydney Festival
1991 & 1999 Hansel and Gretel...a tale of our times Director, Designer Belvoir & Sydney Theatre Co
1992, 1993, 2003, 2008 The Happy Prince Director, Designer Sydney Theatre Company, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Seymour Centre, Sydney Festival, Awesome Festival, Arts Centre Melbourne, National Tours
1997, 1998, 2001 Jake And Pete…A Roadstory For Cats Sydney and tour
2002 & 2003 Robinson Crusoe Adaptor, Director, Designer Sydney Theatre Co, Windmill Performing Arts & tour
2005 & 2006 Go Pinocchio! Director, Designer Sydney & Regional Tour
2010 & 2015 Little Beauty[18][19] Devisor, Director, Designer National Portrait Gallery
2011 & 2013 The Book of Everything Designer The New Victory, Melbourne Theatre Company, Belvoir
2014 & 2015 Monkey...Journey To The West[20] Creator, Designer Australian International Arts Festivals - tour

International Tours

Year Production Role Partnerships
1973 Dido & Aeneas / Edward John Eyre Designer UNSW Opera, London & Aberdeen
1990 Swimming in Light... The world of Lloyd Rees Devisor, Director, Designer Caracas Theatre Festival Venezuela
1992 Hansel and Gretel...a tale of our times Director, Designer Aotea Centre New Zealand
1995 Two Weeks with the Queen Designer Sydney Theatre Co, Johannesburg
2001 Jake And Pete…A Roadstory For Cats Director, Designer Manitoba Theatre for Young People
2002 The Happy Prince Director, Writer Manitoba Theatre for Young People
2012 The Book of Everything Designer New Victory Theater New York City

Solo Exhibitions

2024 A Midsummer Night's Dream Maunsell Wickes Gallery Sydney
2022 WILDE: Life and Fantasy Maunsell Wickes Gallery Sydney
2020 The Happy Prince ARO Gallery Sydney
2015 Art For The Theatre The Depot Gallery Danks St Sydney
2007 Page to Stage Lulie The Iceberg Japan Foundation Gallery
2004 Pixel & Friends Powerhouse Museum
Two exhibitions Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

Group Exhibitions

Wright Hephurn Gallery London
Quadrennial (2) Prague
Theatre Designs S. H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
British & Australian Theatre Design Adelaide Festival, National Tour, UK Tour
Australian Centenary of Federation designs for The Future Powerhouse Museum, Sydney permanent collection
Australian Curated Exhibit A.A. Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum, Moscow
Australian Designers Association Productions Sydney Opera House

References

  1. ^ "Kim Carpenter: life after Theatre of Image". Limelight. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b Zeplin, Pamela (1995). Parsons, Philip (ed.). Companion to Theatre in Australia. Sydney: Currency Press. p. 128. ISBN 0868193577.
  3. ^ "Creative visionary Kim Carpenter returns to NIDA". ABC News. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  4. ^ Mullin, Michael (1 January 1996). Design by Motley. Associated University Presse. ISBN 9780874135695.
  5. ^ Meyrick, Julian (2002). See How It Runs: Nimrod and the New Wave. Sydney: Currency Press. p. 189. ISBN 0-86819-651-7.
  6. ^ Kembrey, Melanie (10 April 2015). "Theatre of Image's Kim Carpenter displays body of work in new exhibition". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  7. ^ Verghis, Sharon (20 June 2005). "Theatre is more than mere child's play". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  8. ^ Low, Lenny Ann (9 September 2019). "Final curtain call for legendary theatre company". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Belvoir Hit The Book of Everything for Adelaide | Stage Whispers". www.stagewhispers.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  10. ^ "The Book of Everything Scores Rave Reviews in New York | Stage Whispers". www.stagewhispers.com.au. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  11. ^ "The Happy Prince ballet may be jinxed, but the show goes on". Australian Financial Review. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  12. ^ "★★★☆☆ The Happy Prince (The Australian Ballet)". Limelight. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  13. ^ Ballet, The Australian. "The Happy Prince | The Australian Ballet". australianballet.com.au. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Kim David Carpenter". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  15. ^ "Pyrmont theatre company owner appointed member of Order of Australia". DailyTelegraph. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  16. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  17. ^ "Brett and Wendy … A Love Story Bound by Art | Stage Whispers". www.stagewhispers.com.au. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  18. ^ "Little Beauty". National Portrait Gallery calendar. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  19. ^ Circle, Canberra Critics (3 July 2018). "Canberra Critics Circle: LITTLE BEAUTY". Canberra Critics Circle. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  20. ^ "Monkey … Journey to the West". Australian Arts Review. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
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