Alex Rigg

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! Alex Rigg is an artist working in a number of different disciplines. His work is often of a large scale and developed for a specific context or location. He makes performance events with his company, Oceanallover, and has designed set, costumes and choreography for many other companies, including NVA, Theatre Cryptic, Theatre Babel, Nation, Al Seed, Ramesh Meyapaan and Process 10:28. He designs and builds green oak structures that are functional and sculptural, making use of traditional framing techniques. Together with Trevor Leat, he designs and build large willow structures, including The Wickerman for the Wickerman Music Festival in Galloway and pyrotechnic sculptures for Carlton Hill as part of ’s Hogmanay celebrations. Much of what he makes !involves collaboration with other artists, musicians and craftsmen. !Education: BA Fine Art (Hons) First Class – School of Art - 1992 !MA Fine Art – Belfast – 1994 !Web-sites: !www.oceanallover.co.uk !www.leatrigg.co.uk !

Auchenstroan; Moniaive; Thornhill; Dumfriesshire; DG3 4JD; 00 44 (0)1848 200 357 [email protected] Alex Rigg ! ! ! !Teaching Alex is in demand as a mentor and teacher. He currently runs a course in Scotland called “Embodied Theatre” which teaches advanced theatre practice at a professional level. He has taught design and performance at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and Glasgow School of Art. He has worked on educational projects with Scottish Ballet and for Artlink Central. His projects frequently !involve teaching classes and workshops in making and performing. !Design and Making - Excerpts Date Project

! 1982 - Orkney – 1989 !Archaeological illustrator, Howe of Howe excavation. Member of the Orkney Printmakers.

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1990 - Apprentice blacksmith with Elspeth Bennie and John 1995 Creed. 1992 The Quartz Cycle – set design for David Glass and State Theta. 1994 - Set and Costume design for Theatre Cyptic. 1997 1996 - Catalyst Carnival – costume design with Lindsay John. 1998 1995 The Bothan Hotel., Ardlui – interior design. 1996 Sister – project and set design for Nation at the National Review of Live Art. 2000 Treasures – illustrations for Dumfries Museums exhibition 2000 !

! Benchmarks – design for House for an Art Lover, Glasgow 2002 Chariot of Light – Design for The Working Party 2003 Grounds fro Play – Designs for Bellahouston Park, Glasgow

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2002 - ! 2012

! – Design & Build with Trevor Leat for The Wickerman Music Festival, Galloway 2003 Primitive Streak – Design Summer School, Glasgow 2004 Painful Creatures – Design for Mischief La Bas – Falkirk, Austria, France, London, Bradford 2005 - Archaeoman – sculptural commission with Trevor Leat 2010 for Archaeolink, Aberdeen 2005 - Hogmanay Fire Sculpture with Trevor Leat for Unique 2011 Events, Edinburgh

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2006 - ! 2012

! Timber Frame comissions, various clients including the RSPB and Dumfries and Galloway Council 2009 Tam O Shanter – Sculptural Comission with Trevor Leat for Three Sisters – Costume design, Paris 2009 Lindsay John – Sound Design, Edinburgh

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1989 - Beltane Fires – performer and maker for Lindsay John 1992 and Test Department. 1989 The Doulton Fountain Project – performer and maker for Lindsay John and Test Department. 1990 The Second Coming– performer and maker for Lindsay John and Test Department. 1990 - Life Dance – artistic director and designer 1994

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1995 Direction and design for Fiat International Festival, and Montenegro. 1998 1998 A Language of Others – direction and design; Tramway, Glasgow. 1998 !

! Britain’s Day at the Lisbon Expo for NVA – Design and performance. 1998 Time Will Mark You – residency at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. 1998 GIFT International Festival, Tiblisi – direction and design. 1999 GOMA, Glasgow – residency for Dance House. 1999 Residency with Gerry Loose at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens 2000 Sweat Heart – design and direction for Scotland’s Year of the Artist. 2000 Burn Gigantic – Direction & Design for Glasgow’s Millennium Celebrations 2000 Sweat Heart – Direction and design for Ae Forest, Dumfriesshire 2000 City Space – Performance for Dance House, Glasgow

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2001 Pay As You Go – Direction and design for Dance Base, Edinburgh 2001 Stealing Lead – Direction & Design for National Museum of Scotland 2001 Stealing Lead - Slovakia 2002 Yellow – Performance for The Space, Dundee 2003 Everything and Nothing – design and performance for The Mega Mango Festival, Mumbai 2003 Shearwater – Performance for The Arches, Glasgow 2003 Over an Unknown Coast – Performance for SSA, Edinburgh 2005 - ! 2007

! Yararacusu – Design and Direction, touring production 2005 – performance for NVA 2008 Surfacemen – Design and Direction for Scottish Natural Heritage

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2008 !

! Peeping at Bosh – Design and performance for Mischief La Bas, Tramway, Glasgow 2009 - ! 2011

! Feather Mammy – design and performance for Dance Base, UZ Arts and the National Museum of Costume – Glasgow, Edinburgh, Galloway, Marseille

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2009 – ! 2012

! The Tide Machine – design and direction – touring production 2011 Last Orders – performance and design for Al Seed and David Hughes Dance 2011 Treadmill Poets – design and direction for Sound !Thoughts Festival, Glasgow. Wickerman Festival - sculptural commission. 2012 !

! Halls of Fame – Design and direction for UZ Arts, Roofless project

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2012 World Heritage Day – Design and direction for Tim !Fitzpatrick and Physical Theatre Scotland. !Wickerman Festival - sculptural commission. 2018 - 2102 - sculptural commissions for Unique Events, Ediburgh. 2012 - ! 2013

! The Lost Supper – Direction and Design with Mischief La !Bas and Mark Zygadlo. Touring Event. Wickerman Festival - sculptural commission.

2013 !Hansel and Gretel - design for Scottish Ballet Education. POLLEn & POLLENISER - touring performance project in !Scotland, England, Slovakia and Hungary. Wynden - Sculpture and performance for the opening of !the Helix Park, Falkirk. Commissioned by UZ Arts. !Wickerman Festival - sculptural commission.

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2014 Abrupt Encounters - special needs performance project !with Artlink Central in Stirling and Scottish Parliament. Perch - design for large scale outdoor work by Conflux, !Glasgow. UnLooking - performance project commissioned by the !Mackintosh Festival, Glasgow. Wickerman Festival - sculptural commission. 2015 The Games - performance with Dick Lee for the !Glasgow Commonwealth Games. !Bellmouth Papercone - touring performance project . Crawick Multiverse - performance commission for !Buccleuch Estates and Chales Jenks. Eel Mother - performance commission for Christchurch !Festival, New Zealand. Wickerman Festival - Sculptural Commission.

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2106 Not To Scale - touring performance; Scotland and !Hungary. On Tenterhooks - performance & sculptural commission !- Unexpected Exeter.

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2017 !Jorvik Viking Centre - sculptural commission. !Sea Hames - touring performance production. !Maximillion Events - design commission.

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