He trained at London’s Wimbledon School of Art‚ and is recognised as one of the leading stage designers of his generation. He was honoured by Liverpool Institute of the Performing Arts with an honorary Doctorate, and was shortlisted for Best Designer at the 2022 International Opera Awards. Recent projects include Aida (St Gallen), Simon Boccanegra (Latvian National Opera), Francesca da Rimini and Manon Lescaut (La Scala‚ Milan)‚ Antigone (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Leipzig), Le nozze di Figaro (Israel Opera), I puritani (Barcelona)‚ Werther (Nancy‚ winner of Prix Claude Rostand, Quebec, Marseille)‚ Al Wasl (Welsh National Opera, Dubai), Der Zigeunerbaron (Geneva)‚ Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera, Magdeburg), Billy Budd and The Merry Widow (Opera North)‚ Peter Grimes (Magdeburg, Basel), The Excursions of Mr Broucek (Grange Park Opera), Rusalka (Santa Fe), The Marriage of Figaro (Kansas, Philadelphia, San Diego)‚ Fiddler on the Roof (Malmö)‚ La clemenza di Tito (St Louis)‚ Carmen (Welsh National Opera)‚ Twelfth Night and Death of a Salesman (Manchester Royal Exchange). // The list of the productions below is complete - Last update of the biography: March 2023.