SAL PITTMAN
Visual artist and production designer working across a variety of disciplines. Work ranges from distinct digital and analogue light and film based projects with KlangHaus to art direction, costume and production design, standalone graphic illustration, art books, collaged film and supergraphics.
Visual artist and co-founder of KlangHaus - a collaborative music/art/building concept. KlangHaus is an award winning installation theatre umbrella project born out of The Butcher of Common Sense project. The work revolves around a hybrid of live music and visual art using evaporating cinematic narratives, analogue and digital light and sound, projected film, site specific installation set pieces and promenade performance.
Concrete Dreams exhibition – exhibition design and large scale immersive film work for the re-opening of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Hayward and Purcell Rooms. April 2018
800 breaths Southbank Centre. 3 week residence and 42 shows. 2017 Four Storeys St Georges Works. Norwich. Residency. Dec. 2016 Alight Here Queen St Bus Depot. Colchester. Residency. Sept. 2016 OnAir Southbank Centre. 3 week residence and 42 shows. Lower Ground 2016. Somerset House WC2. 3 week residence. 2015 Edinburgh Fringe 3 week residence. 39 shows. Summerhall. 2014 KlangHaus. NAC. Associate Artists. 2014/17
Visual Artist and creative direction for a collaborative project in sound and art. Graphic design/typography, illustration, animated film and super graphic light projections. Premiered 2012 at The Horse Hospital WC1.
Sound and Vision Festival, Undercroft at The War Memorial Soft Launch November 2012 Horse Hospital WC1. Premiere and exhibition November 2012 N&N Festival 2012 Performance /installation May 2012 Unlit Literature Festival: November 2012 (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.) DoubleThink . Production and Costume Design. Sheffield Doc Fest.2018 Phantoscopic/Metal: Different Trains 47. Art Direction and lead Tech. Production. The Barbican Centre 2017
The World We Knew. (Feature) Art Direction and Set Design. (in post prod.) 2017.
Art Direction and Production Design Including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Scott Walker/Sun O))), Daughter, Can. Spoon, The Big Pink, Gang Gang Dance, Station to Station, for Doug Aitkins at The Barbican Centre,
4AD in association with Dazed Digital. Art Direction/Set Design. 2012.
Set and Costume Design Including Grinderman, John Hillcoat, Nick Cave, Short Circuit - Mute Fest. Production Design Underage Festival - Victoria Park. Creative Director for a Performance house for Polly Scattergood, Florence & The Machine & Wild Beasts.
Film and Video Design Large scale contemporary choral presentation Arms of Sleep. Premiered N&N Festival 2017 and Brighton Festival 2018 Ideas of Flight. Premiered N&N Festival. 2013
Director. The Neutrinos, Build Him ‘Til He Breaks (shot on 16mm)
Concrete Dreams at Southbank Centre. Spring 2018 KlangHaus at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Small Animal Hospital. Summer 2014 The Butcher of Common Sense at The Horse Hospital. WC1. London. Autumn 2012
Various for Queen Elizabeth Hall re-opening exhibition. Spring 2018 The Guardian. Picture Interview. Plus various for Klanghaus - On Air at RFH Summer 2016 The Beechwood Airship Interviews. Dan Richards. Harper Collins 2015 The Times. KlangHaus, The Guardian. KlangHaus, The Telegraph. KlangHaus TimeOut. KlangHaus. All August 2014 Ultrabold: The journal of St Brides Library. Issue #12. ‘Sal Pittman: The Butcher of Common Sense.‘ 2013 The Butcher Of Common Sense art book. 340 pp. Hand printed Edition.150. 2012.
GFA award for recording and film development. KlangHaus. 2018
GFA award for Research and Development. KlangHaus 2016 R&D - Sold out iterations for Klanghaus include Somerset House London, Bus Depot Colchester and St Georges Works Norwich.
Three Weeks Magazine Editor's Award for Innovation 2014 Awarded for the KlangHaus show. Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
GFA Escalator award. KlangHaus. 2014 KlangHaus at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Small Animal Hospital. four x 5 star reviews and eight x 4 star reviews.
GFA Escalator award. I am A Building. 2012 Research and development for live site specific music/art shows, culminating in a three week residency at The Horse Hospital
GFA Escalator award. The Butcher Of Common Sense. 2008 The Butcher of Common Sense : an experiment and exploration into music, art and performance in architecture. A 10 day residency at Funkhaus Nalepastrassse - Berlin.
Associate Lecturer: UAL. London College of Fashion. Womenswear FDT. Design. BA. 2006- 2018 MA Fashion Futures. Design and 3D Realisation. 2008- 2015 Kingston University. Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Design and 3D Realisation. MA. Grad. Dip. and BA. 2012 – 2017
Further Roles: I am also a master pattern cutter – lecturing and realisation roles at Kingston University and UAL: London College of Fashion. UAL: London College of Fashion. Project Leader and Associate Lecturer. Artscom. Bespoke Pattern Drafting and Cutting. 2010 –present. UAL: LCF. Project Manager and Associate Lecturer. MA access. 2015 UAL. LCF. Art Direction and Curation. MA Fashion Futures. 2011-12