• Lighting design for any live medium, encompassing indoor and outdoor performance and installation projects. i specialise in site-specific theatre, outdoor events, pyrotechnical collaborations, urban architectural work, and large-scale landscape interventions.

• Artistic direction and creative design for live work and commissioned projects.

• Artistic project management, production and technical consultancy, lighting and electrics consultancy, project planning and advice.

• Environmental strategies for arts projects including renewable energy sources, carbon emissions reduction, management and control of consumable plastics and other pollutants.

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My experience covers a whole range of public and private clients and locations, from the smallest of small scale theatre production, to large scale (35 000+) public events for local government. In addition to a long experience of conventional venues and managed sites, I have successfully delivered on a number of projects in environmentally sensitive areas including: SSSIs, on National Trust and English Heritage properties and in National Parks.

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Earlier on…

My work in the production industry started at CYTO, the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation, based in a converted school gym in South Norwood in South London. As a 16 year old I had no idea where wiring 15 Amp plugs and painting canvas flattage would take me. After a three year interlude in Newcastle-upon-Tyne studying for a Ba (hons) degree in Archaeology, My first full time events job was as a crew member for London Borough of Lambeth Arts and Entertainments. I worked on The Lambeth Country Show, and free musical entertainment in the Borough’s Halls, open spaces and parks throughout the summers from 1992 to 1995 . It was this work in the early nineties that gave me a love of free outdoor public entertainment. There is nothing more magical when well conceived and executed.

I hope you enjoy looking at these images as much as I enjoyed creating them.

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Phil Supple Monday, 23rd March 2009