Overview
Bunny is passionate about costume and its relation to truth within the fictional celluloid environment.
Bunny has been a part of the AUB since 2008 and has been connected to the course since 1995. Commencing at the AUB as a technician, she became a Lecturer in 2012 and a Senior Lecturer in 2020. Throughout her academic career, she has been responsible for the film costume side of the course.
Previous to 2008 she worked across the Film, TV, Performance and Bridal industries as a designer/supervisor/wardrobe manager/milliner and consultant. Her professional credits have been varied: freelance milliner and headdress maker (clients have included Issy Van Randwick and Dorothy Tutin); Wardrobe Supervisor: Ronnie Wood Live at the Ambassadors Theatre; Research Consultant: A Conversation with Edith Head (Sally Humphreys Productions ltd); Wardrobe supervisor and milliner to Diane Kruger: Joyeux Noel (Nord-Ouest Films); Milliner: Iphigenia at Aulis (National Theatre): Milliner: Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre); Assistant Wardrobe and Cloche Manipulator for Philip Prowse's Semi Monde (Thelma Holt Ltd); Wardrobe Supervisor: The Nutcracker (Royal Festival Hall), Wardrobe Supervisor: Imagine...John Soanes (BBC).
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Creative Professional Practice (University of Portsmouth)
- BA (Hons) Performance (Mountview)
- HND Costume Design for Stage and Screen (Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design)
- ND Fashion (Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design)
Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Education (University of the Creative Arts)
Teaching
Bunny teaches costume design across all three years at undergraduate level and has lectured on MA Historical Costume in backstory and film skills.
Although her specialism is in character clothing for screen, she also lectures in performance design costumes. She is the unit leader for the Level 5 unit Historical Design and the Level 4 unit, Costume Design for Film. She also leads the film costume sections of all Level 6 units and Creative Projects in Level 5.
Bunny is constantly engaging in developments with inclusivity and, in particular, neurodiversity within teaching and assessment and has recently become a member of the course contextual studies team.
Bunny is a liaison with Level 6 students on the BA Film Production course at AUB and Level 5 students on the BA Film course at Bournemouth University.
My Teaching Gallery
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Bunny is currently writing a book about key costume designers across the performance and screen industries over the past 60 years. It will feature ballet/dance, opera, theatre, film, television, animation and other performance designers.
She is passionate about the artistry of costume design in film and the backstory of character and this features heavily in her work.
My Research Gallery
Professional Engagement
Bunny has collaborated on a number of professional engagements whereby she has designed costumes and mentored student assistants, makers, supervisors and breakdown artists. She has designed for film and music videos as part of her role on the course including for Treehouse Digital on their Shelly project for Crypt TV and a music video for BeauBowBelles.
She is also responsible for a number of course Level 6 work placements. Recent examples have included for various TV projects at BBC Birmingham, Netflix's The Crown, Michele Clapton's Secret Garden, Alexandra Byrne's Emma and with designer Annie Symons.
My Professional Engagement Gallery
Awards and Prizes
Notable awards/prizes
- Bunny has won the AUBSU Thank You teaching award twice and as a team we have won the AUB Aubretia award.
- As a team we were awarded the prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Costume Design.
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Fellow (FHEA)