Ailsa Paterson is an award-winning costume and set designer for live performance and film. She lives and works on the lands of the Kaurna people and pays respect to elders past, present and emerging.
If the design process is in its early stages I am working from home, sourcing visual references, exploring with scale and proportion in the model box, drawing concept sketches and meeting with the director and other creatives. If the show is in rehearsal, I move between the rehearsal room and the workshops where the set is being built. I source sample materials and constantly update plans as things evolve in the rehearsal room and with the build.
