Scenic Artist
Tricia is a final year Scenic Artist at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Alongside her work on the school's operas, musicals and plays, Tricia has worked in a professional capacity for a variety of theatre companies at home and abroad, including Copenhagen's Nørrebro Teater, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, The Royal Lyceum Theatre, and Marmoset. Tricia is an adventurous and creative practitioner who loves nothing more than turning vision into reality.
Education
2023 - present
BA Production Arts: Scenic Art
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Intensive training in all aspects of the craft of scenic art, including managing a large scale production as Head Scenic.
Gauze painting / woodgrain / Texture / Trompe l'oeil / Translating Design Models and References / Drawing and Scaling / Colour Mixing / Ageing and Distressing / Faux Finishing (Woodgrain, Concrete) / Texturing / Compressor Spray Gun / Hand Tools / Working at Height / Budgeting and scheduling
2013 - 2014
International Diploma,
Practical Filmmaking
The European Film College, Denmark
All aspects of filmmaking, including: Avid Editing; Production Management; Directing Documentary; Advanced Acting for Feature Film; Documentary Slate; Screen Acting and Directing Actors
Achievements: Wrote and directed three short investigative documentaries about: the demise of handwriting; elderly people in remote communities of Scotland; public opinion of contemporary art. She was awarded the Obel Family Scholarship for her contribution to the social and professional life of the school.
2009 - 2013
MA, French and German
The University of Edinburgh
With Distinction in Spoken French.
Other courses studied: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (1st); Bertolt Brecht (1st); The Monster in French Literature (1st); Literature and Testimony of the Third Reich (2:1); European Theatre (A); European Cinema (A); History of Architecture (A)