KEY APPOINTMENTS
Scenic Artist (Grade 2/3) Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Full Time (Fixed Term) August 2019 – February 2020 (6 Months)
Senior Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery Freelance (Recurring) July 2016 – August 2019 (3 Years 1 Month)
Scenic Artist Ralph Lauren Freelance (Recurring) August 2009 – November 2018 (9 Years 4 Months)
Office Assistant Almeida Theatre Part Time (Internship) April – September 2014 (6 Months)
Scenic Artist / Counselor Stagedoor Manor (NY, USA) Full Time (Fixed Term) June – August 2011 (3 Months)
TRAINING EDUCATION
MEWPS (TAL Card) December 2019 MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy (PASS with DISTINCTION)
Abrasive Wheels (Safe Use) December 2019 Goldsmiths, University of London 2014
Harness Awareness April 2019
BA (Hons) Theatre Practice: Scenic Art (2:1)
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London 2008
REFERENCES
Rebecca Ashley Head of Scenic Art Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Contact details on request
Becky Whitehead Head of Paint Shop Rocket Scenery Contact details on request
Fernando Vasquez Production Manager Ralph Lauren Contact details on request
STAGE (Theatre / Live / Immersive Experience) SCREEN (Film / TV / Music Video)
Nickelodeon The Experience (The Luna Cinema), U.K. Tour Don’t Turn Out The Light (Tom Fletcher), TMF Productions
Scenic Artist Illusion Design and Construct Art Director
June - July 2022 March - April 2019
Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema), Gunnersbury, London Worzel Gummidge (BBC / Leopard Pictures), Footprint Scenery
Scenic Artist Illusion Design and Construct Scenic Painter (Dailies)
May – June 2022 June 2019
Peaky Blinders The Rise (Immersive Everywhere), Camden Time Crashers (Channel 4 / Wall 2 Wall), Helen Atherton
Scenic Artist Illusion Design and Construct Scenic Painter (Dailies)
May 2022 April 2015
The Comedy of Errors (RSC), 2021 S-U-A / U.K. Tour / Barbican Lee Kern’s Celebrity Bedlam (E4/Objective Productions), Erin Moore
Scenic Artist Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Props Painter
2020 2012
The Winter’s Tale (BBC 2021), Royal Shakespeare Theatre, S-U-A The Fast Show: Faster Special (BBC2 / Fosters Funny), CINECO
Scenic Artist Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Scenic Artist
2020 April 2011
The Boy In The Dress (RSC), Royal Shakespeare Theatre, S-U-A The Legend of Dick and Dom (BBC), Helen Atherton
Scenic Artist Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Scenic Painter (Dailies)
August 2019 - March 2020 2009
As You Like It / Taming of the Shrew / Measure for Measure, Barbican + U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
2019 + 2020
Cinderella (English National Ballet), U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, London Palladium
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2019
On Your Feet, Curve Leicester / London Coliseum / U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2019
Amelie The Musical, Watermill Theatre / U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2019
The King and I (Lincoln Center), London Palladium + U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018 + 2019
War Horse (National Theatre), NT / U.K. / International Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018 / 2019
White Christmas, Curve Leicester / Dominion Theatre
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
Motown The Musical, U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
Me and My Girl, Chichester Festival Theatre
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
Frozen, Theatre Royal Haymarket
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2018
Lady Windermere’s Fan, Vaudeville Theatre
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2017
A Woman of No Importance, Vaudeville Theatre
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2017
Evita, Johannesburg, SA / Australia
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2017
Beautiful, U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2017
42ND Street, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2016 - 2017
The Bodyguard, U.S. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2016
Sister Act, U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Rocket Scenery
2016
The Drowned Man, Temple Studios, Paddington
Scenic Artist Punchdrunk
2013
Private Peaceful, U.K. Tour
Scenic Artist Scamp Theatre
2007 + 2009
The Masque of the Red Death, Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
Scenic Artist Punchdrunk
2007
MISCELLANOUS (Display / Mural / Theming)
Wimbledon 2022 (Bond St.), Ralph Lauren
Scenic Artist
June 2022 Window DISPLAY
Black Mirror Labyrinth (Thorpe Park), Freemont Baxter
Scenic Artist
March 2020 THEMING Dynamic Forms (Schroders, City of London), Hugo Dalton
Scenic Painter
2019 MURAL
Entrance Mural (Shaftesbury Avenue), Happy Entertainment
Artist
2018 MURAL
Various Schemes (Bond St. / Regent St. / Fulham Rd.), Ralph Lauren
Scenic Artist (Glasgow / Mount St. / Westbourne Grove /Europe)
August 2009 – November 2018 Window & Interior DISPLAY
Love Story Collection (NEXT), NEXT
Scenic Artist
2015 ADVERTISEMENT
Blood Swept Lands & Seas of Red (Tower of London),Historic Royal Palace
Poppy Planter Designer: Paul Cummins / Tom Piper
2014 INSTALLATION (Sculpture)
Bally (Harrods, Knightsbridge), Millington Associates
Scenic Artist
2013 Window DISPLAY
C A R O L I N E S H E L L E Y
SCENIC ARTIST / SCENIC PAINTER / ART DEPARTMENT
PROFILE
Experienced scenic artist / painter & creative, with over 15 years experience. An established history of working in the entertainment & fashion industries. Skilled in painting techniques for hard scenery, softs (cloths), murals and creating high quality effects. Regularly working in workshops and on location / site (paint calls), in different teams & independently. Knowledge of production & administration processes. Proficiency in meeting short deadlines, proactive & adaptable.
Passionate about creating convincing environments, whether realistic or fantastical. Looking to do more TV / HETV / Film work.
SKILLS
Techniques: research, interpreting / translating, Scaling and Drawing Up / models / CAD drawings / reference images, colour mixing, preparing (filling, sanding, priming), Trompe L’Oeil, spraying, texturing (tool application & hopper), faux finishes/finishing (wood graining, marbling, Stone, Concrete, Brick), wood staining, lettering, wallpaper & tapestry painting, stone effects (including brick), stenciling, aging and distressing, lining in, finishes (matt, silk-matt, silk, satin, gloss, traffic).
Materials: velour / gauze / canvas (softs / cloths), woods, metals, plastics, polystyrene, fillers, texture (Idendun, jesmonite, rubber crumb, polyfibres, vermiculite, sand, sawdust, artex, one coat plaster).
Paints: Oil & water based. Scenic (Rosco, Bristol, Flints, Mylands, Hato), emulsion, dyes, metallic, fluorescent, invisible UV, UV, fabric, plastic, wood stains, waxes. Shellac, meths, button polish. Glazes & varnishes. Spray Paints.
Equipment: OWN: Spray Guns, brushes, drawing equipment USE: hopper, textured rollers - Hand Tools
Digital: Mac & PC. Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, basic html coding. Social media presence, website & blog.