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The Founding Committee will soon be inviting applications for the 2014 scholarship.  Applications for theatrical designers and makers open October 1st 2013 and close December 1st 2013.  The successful recipient will be announced at The Green Room Awards 2014.

Please check the website closer to applications opening for an updated application form.

Previous Recipient Career Update

Victoria Lamb

My previous design commissions were Glass Menagerie for State Theatre Company of South Australia and The City for 'Now, yes, Now (Geordie Brookman). Later this year I will design Maggie Stone for State Theatre Company of South Australia. This year I have also taken over from Mary Moore as design lecturer to the Honours directing students at Flinders University. In a couple of weeks I am travelling to America where I will be running some model making seminars.

Announcing The 2012 Winner of The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship For Design in The Performing Arts

Melbourne based designer Anna Cordingley is the 2012 recipient of The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship For Design in The Performing Arts. Anna graduated from The Victorian College of The Arts where she was awarded The 2003 John Vickery Scholarship. In 2009- 2011 was Artist in Residence, Set and Costume design for Malthouse Theatre. Her recent work includes Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Julius Caesar for Bell Shakespeare and costume design for Chunky Move’s Connected. She is currently designing Macbeth for The Bell Shakespeare Company. Anna’s travel plans include study at the Akademie der Kunste Berlin, and Warburg Institute in London.

There will be an exhibition of Anna’s designs at the Arts Centre Melbourne in The Smorgon Family Plaza opening on the 13th April. We thank the Arts Centre for their generous support, and in particular staff members Tim Fisher, Theo Strasser, Margot Anderson and Jeremy Vincent. The Malthouse Theatre has kindly allowed us to borrow the costumes featured in this exhibition. We are indebted to their costumier Amanda Carr for her assistance.

The Selection Committee would like to thank all the unsuccessful applicants for their outstanding submissions to The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship For Design in The Performing Arts. The scholarship saw a particularly strong field of applicants and the final decision was extremely difficult. We would encourage you to reapply in the future. The next round of applications commence October 2013 for the 2014 scholarship.

The scholarship’s previous recipient Victoria Lamb is currently in London and sent the following email.

“Today is my third day in London. In early 2010 I had the great privilege and surprise to be awarded the inaugural KF Scholarship. Part of this is my current visit to the UK. I will be undertaking a placement with designer Lucy Osborne and following her progress through designing "The Recruiting Officer" for the Donmar Warehouse. This is their first production with new artistic director Josie Rourke. I will also be using my time here to meet up with other designers and directors, visit studios, see shows and learn first hand about the work they are doing. My first day was spent with designer Mark Thompson and Director Jamie Lloyd at the NT on the technical rehearsal for "She Stoops to Conquer" and seeing the extraordinary mechanical abilities of the Olivier stage. It has already been an amazing few days. I have loved every jet lagged minute of it. Winning the Scholarship has been quite literally a life changing experience. Aside from the benefit of overseas travel, the unexpected affect it has had on my design career within Australia has been nothing short of meteoric. It has given me access to unexpected professional opportunities and opened doors that I had been knocking on for a long time. In short, I have been so busy designing in my home town of Adelaide and now for the first time, with major companies in Sydney, that it is had taken almost two years for me to find a free window of time in which I could undertake my travel. For this I am very, very grateful”.

We would like to thank Beleura House and Garden and The Tallis Foundation for making it financially possible to advertise the application dates for the scholarship.

Further donations came from designers Hugh Colman, Shaun Gurton, Fiona Reilly and Christina Smith, we thank them for their generosity and ongoing support for the scholarship.

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Applications open October 1st 2011 for the 2012 Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts. Closing date for submissions is December 1st 2011. The successful applicant will be announced April 2012. Please visit apply page of website for further information.

If you are in Sydney early 2012 you can see Kristian Fredrikson's evocative designs for the musical Annie which opens on 5th of January at The Lyric Theatre, Star City. It was first presented by Gordon Frost and Sports and Entertainment Ltd in 2001.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Michelle Potter has commenced research for her forthcoming book on Kristian Fredrikson.Michelle Potter is a dance writer, historian and curator with a Doctorate in Art History and Dance History from The Australian National University. She is based in Canberra, Australia. She writes about dance for The Canberra Times and a number of other print and electronic outlets in Australia and internationally.

Houston Ballet

Houston Ballet Company will be presenting Stanton Welch's Cinderella designed by Kristian Fredrikson for The Australian Ballet in 1997 as part of their 2012 season. It opens on the 23rd of february

Update from Victoria Lamb, our first scholarship recipient

Since winning the Scholarship seven months ago, quite a lot has happened. Arranging an overseas placement has been a slow process but to my great surprise, the difference the Scholarship has made on the local front has been huge. As a designer from Adelaide I have put a lot of effort in to trying to cross the "State Divide" and gain some work with interstate companies. Until recently these efforts were met with some encouragement but not actual contracts.

However, the Scholarship exhibition in Melbourne bought my work to the attention of Sydney based agent; ICS, through our combined efforts and some good luck I am now suddenly looking at 2011 offers from three major Sydney based companies, as well as two shows with the State Theatre of South Australia, who have been hugely supportive through the whole process. The next twelve months are now looking so busy that my overseas travel plans may have to wait a little longer.

The local benefits of the Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship were unexpected but very welcome, thanks again to all those who have made the Scholarship a reality.

Victoria Lamb.

Scholarship recipient announced

The Founding Committee for The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship For Design in The Performing Arts has pleasure announcing that the first recipient of the scholarship is Victoria Lamb from South Australia. The official presentation will take place on 15th March at The Green Room Awards Melbourne. To coincide with the presentation a small exhibition of Victoria’s designs will be displayed in The Smorgon Family Plaza in the Arts Centre Melbourne until 3rd June

Victoria has her own website, www.victorialamb.com should you care to see examples of her designs.

Coppélia

Kristian Fredrikson’s ravishing designs can be seen onstage in The Australian Ballet Company’s production of Coppélia. The Sydney season commences at The Opera House on 4th May and concludes on 22nd May, and the Melbourne season commences at the Arts Centre on 10th June and concludes 22nd June.

This particular production was staged by Dame Peggy van Praagh in 1979 and was her last production as Artistic Director for the company.She had two important collaborators, “the incomparable Kristian Fredrikson created a mesmerizing world of exquisite detail - from the hazy glow of the harvest to the gothic ornamentation of the workshop and dozens of lush costumes. Peggy also called upon theatre director and mime expert George Ogilvie, a graduate of the famous Lecoq School”

From Ballet New, Issue 49, edited by Kate Scott

Applications Closed

The application date has now closed for the 2010 scholarship award.

The Scholarship Founding Committee would like to thank all the applicants for their submissions.

The selection panel is in the process of assessing applications.

We will be inviting applications for the next scholarship in October 2011, and awarding the next scholarship in 2012.

Website progress

We have nearly finished our new website.

We still have some work to do on Kristian Fredrikson's page, which eventually will house a gallery of images of his designs.

We would like to thank all the individuals and organisations who have helped us along the way by providing images.