Gina Gascoigne
Lighting Designer/Artist
2022 - 2024
Lighting Designer
Kamarra Bell Wykes, A Daylight Connection, Rising, A Good Catch, Snuff Puppets,
The Shift Theatre, Circus Oz, Maude Davey
Other
Masters by Research (Fine Art)
2020-2021
Creative developments as lighting designer and artist:
Ongoing - A Good Catch circus group new production 'Zoe'- experimenting with video and projection as moving art on bodies, as
light moving through space
- with musician and sound artist Chris Lewis playing with light as video, art as video
Other - Moreland Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
- Outer Urban Projects
- Make It Up Club performance
Lighting Designer
'Alter Edith' Holly Durant
'Arterial' Na Djinang Circus, Yirramboi Festival
La Mama Theatre
Top Acts 2021
2015 -2019
Lighting Designer
‘This is Eden’,Outer Urban Projects ‘Poetic Licence’, ‘Vessel’ ‘The Audition’ Creative Development with Nat Grant, Sound Artist
School with No Walls Project-Eltham Primary School
VCAA ‘Top Acts’, 2016-2021
Castlemaine Festival, Footscray Arts Centre, NICA, Cabaret Festival, Citizen Theatre
Maude Davey, Deborah Leiser Moore, Nica, Kate Hunter, Debra Batton, Karma Dance, David Joseph
Visual Artist
Bauhaus Now, Buxton Contemporary Gallery, Melbourne
Ruin, Gallery West, London, U.K.
Structured Memory with Lynden Cunningham, RMIT First Site
Third Year Grad Show, RMIT, Melbourne
Fringe Festival Art Show Meat Market, Nth Melbourne
Salon Show, Sagra Gallery, Malvern
2012-14
Lighting Designer
Archie Roach ‘Into the Bloodstream’ Tania Bosak’s Barefoot Orchestra, MONA FOMA
Castlemaine Festival, Maude Davey ‘My Life in the Nude’, La Mama,
Kerry Armstrong, ‘The Woolgatherer’, La Mama, NICA, Melbourne International Jazz Festival
What’s Coming Festival, Dancehouse, Women’s Circus
Visual Artist
Suspension, group exhibition, Tinning St Gallery
Gathering group student exhibition, Tinning St Gallery
Material Culture group exhibition, Counihan Gallery
Petit Wangaratta Art Gallery
2003-2011
Lighting Designer
David Byrne, Adelaide Festival, Melbourne Festival, Chamber Made Opera, Next Wave Festival
Platform Youth Theatre, Ennio Morricone Experience, ‘The Berryman’, Hothouse, Wodonga
‘Show us Ya Tiddas’ Lou Bennett, Angus Cerini, Snuff Puppets
NICA, Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Women’s Circus,Westside Circus,This Side Up Company
1994-2002
Circus Oz, Melbourne Festival , Adelaide Festival
1989-1994
Production/Lighting Assistant Barcelona Olympic Opening & Closing Ceremonies
Klapstuk Dance Festival, Belgium (1991/3)
Jacobs Pillow Festival, Massachusetts,U.S. (1992)
Lighting Designer
Mal Pelo dance company
Production / Lighting Designer / Technician for independent dance companies
EDUCATION
2024 Masters by Research (Fine Arts), RMIT
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), RMIT
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Distinction), RMIT
2011 Diploma of Studio Art and Design, RMIT
2009 Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
Other Qualifications
Test & Tag Licence
Elevated Work Platform Licence
Languages
English, Spanish