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Giuseppe Belli
Giuseppe was born in 1966 in Manchester and studied Theatre Design and Fine Art at Birmingham Polytechnic under Christopher Morley (Royal Shakespeare Company) & The Slade School of Fine Art under Peter Snow and Yolanda Sonnabend.
He was awarded the Worshipful Company of Painter\'s Guild prize for fine art at Slade Schools in 1992 and was elected a Freeman of the Guild in 1999.
He received the Arts Council of Great Britain bursary for Theatre Design in 1994 at Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, going on to design many productions; and became Artist in Residence at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds from 1995-98 designing with choreographer Janet Smith. Giuseppe is also a practising painter and sculptor and has also worked extensively in the film, TV and advertising industries. Exhibitions include the Walker Contemporary Gallery, Dean Clough Contemporary Galleries, A \' Gallery, and annually at The Guild of Painters, London winning the award for best work in any medium in 2006.
Giuseppe & his wife Emma Belli began theatre design collaboration in 1999. They are currently designing Verdi\'s opera Falstaff for Grange Park Opera & Tour in 2008, and designs for their own opera/musical/dance production of The Ancient Mariner, and a musical concept based on the life of Benvenuto Cellini. They are also working on a new musical for the West End.
Other joint designs include:
La Traviata for Opera Holland Park directed by Elaine Kidd (ROH).
Fabula, Cochraine Theatre.
Sweet Charity, Oldham Coliseum.
Touching Zulu, Scottish Dance Theatre.
Comedy of Errors and Sweet William by Alan Plater, Northern Broadsides national tour.
Poetry or Bust, written and Directed by poet Tony Harrison, Salts Mill.
Once Upon a Time in Wigan Contact Theatre Manchester, The West Yorkshire Playhouse & Tours.
Star Cross\'d Lovers, Welsh National Opera.
The Merchant of Venice , Antigone, Henry V, A Woman Killed with Kindness Northern Broadsides national tours.
After leaving the Slade School of Art I wished to explore more closely the relationship between artwork and audience.
As an artist, designing for theatre allows me the luxury of studying more specific spatial relationships between the active human form as part of the artwork, (performer and scenery) and as observer.
It also allows me to experiment more freely with the idea of placed artwork as part of its complete environment \' its \'belonging\' Integral to all of this is light, both natural and artificial.
\"Current works explore perceptions of observation and order in nature - The border between abstract and real, the relationship between abstract marks and their perceived representation of realism in the whole work.
This order and form is then abstracted further into other works. They are painted in layers of lightfast acrylic, ink and metal leaf, onto clear acrylic panels and divided into sections.
The aim is to inspire an order of viewing, (similar to that of the artist on location) and to mirror the changes in lighting on location in the hung work.
In future paintings I intend to explore these ideas further in all scales, including much larger works for many types of space, both private and public.\"
Giuseppe Belli
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