Kieran Swann

– Exhibitions, Saturday 14th November 2009

Kieran is a Brisbane based performance maker, and one half of duo the Restaged Histories project, who are currently developing a work with Next Wave 2010.  They have previously staged Omon Ra, The Greater Plague, Marat/Sade (educational residency at QUT), and The Jack Tragedy. He continues to develop solo and duo performance pieces, often durational and with a focus on the alteration of the site of performance.  This work has been seen at Metro Arts, and as curated by ARI inbetweenspaces.  ‘The exercises’ is on ongoing series of performance pieces analysing responsibility in relationships in contemporary pop culture; four separate exercises have thus far been created.

Kieran was engaged in 2007 as the first designer under the emerging artist program by Queensland Theatre Company, for whom he has designed That Face, Stones in his Pockets, I Am My Own Wife, The Estimator, Property of the Clan, Caucasian Chalk Circle, and worked as assistant designer of Away, and design assistant of Hamlet, Private Fears in Public Places, Constance Drinkwater and the Final Days of Somerset, and Vincent in Brixton, and taught workshops in design for theatre and performance for high school students. Kieran has also worked as designer of The Ghost Writer (...and moor Theatre Company), Deep Blue (Creative Media Warehouse), The Laramie Project (Forward Movement/Springboard Theatre Company), Ivy Shambitt and the Sound Machine (Backbone Youth Arts), Mad Forest (NIDA Open Program), Tashi Stories (Imaginary Ltd), The Physics Project, Beautiful (QUT Postgraduate Program), and in capacities of assistant designer, design co-ordinator or design assistant of Walking by Apple Tree Creek, The Mayne Inheritance (La Boite Theatre Company), Charters Towers The Musical (Queensland Music Festival 2005) and the 2006 Brisbane Festival.

In 2006 he was awarded a place in the SPARK national arts mentorship scheme.