Melbournian designer Anna Cordingley has been announced as the winner of The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship For Design In The Performing Arts.
The biannual Scholarship is a memorial for the late Kristian Fredrikson who died in 2005; a 40-year veteran designer he worked in all aspects from ballet, exhibitions, opera to film and television. The scholarship was launched in 2008 to encourage future generations to realise his artistic visions onstage.
The winning applicant of the scholarship receives $10,000 and the opportunity to be mentored by established designers in Australia and gain firsthand experience or education in stage design.
Anna Cordingley, an Artistic Associate in Design at the Malthouse Theatre Company in Melbourne, is a set and costume designer who graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts where she was awarded The 2003 John Vickery Scholarship. Her recent work includes Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Julius Caesar for Bell Shakespeare and costume design for Chunky Move’s Connected.
Cordingley’s designs will be exhibited at the Arts Centre in Melbourne from 13 April, at the Smorgon Family Plaza. Cordingley plans to travel aboard to study at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin as well as the Warburg Institute in London.
The previous recipient of the scholarship, Adelaide born Victoria Lamb, is currently in London undertaking a placement with designer Lucy Osborne amongst other activities. In a statement she said, ‘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’.
The Selection Committee said the scholarship saw a particularly strong field of applicants and the final decision was extremely difficult picking and encouraged unsuccessful applicants to reapply in 2013 for the 2014 scholarship.
Visit www.fredriksonscholarship.org for more info.
