Melbourne based designer Anna Cordingley has been awarded the 2012 Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship tor Design in the Performing Arts.
Cordingley is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, where she was awarded rhe 2003 John Vickery Scholarship. In 2009-2011 she was Artist in Residence at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne. Her recent work includes Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Julius Caesar for Bell Shakespeare and costume design for Chunky Move’s Connected.
The scholarship was created to provide an on-going memorial to the brilliant designer Kristian Fredrikson who died in 2005. The $10,000 biennial travel scholarship provides a designer or theatrical maker with the opportunity to further their career overseas. Cordingley’s travel plans include study at the Berlin Akademie der Kunste Berlin and the Warburg Institute in London.
The scholarship’s previous recipient Victoria Lamb is currently in London undertaking a placement with designer Lucy Osborne following her progress designing The Recruiting Officer for the Donmar Warehouse.
‘Winning the Scholarship has been quite literally a life changing experience,” she says. “Aside from the benefit of overseas travel, the unexpected affect it has had on my design career within Australia has been nothing short of meteoric. It has given me access to unexpected professional opportunities and opened doors that I had been knocking on for a long time.
“In short, I have been so busy designing in my home town of Adelaide and now for the first time, with major companies in Sydney. For this I am very, grateful.”
No doubt Cordingley’s career will be similarly meteroic.
For further information see www.fredriksonscholarship.org