Curriculum Vitae
PRODUCTION DESIGN
STRIKE: The Running Grave (2026) Bronte Films / BBC / HBO
Director: Sue Tully
Producer: Alex Rendell
Writer: Tom Edge/ Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling)
5 part popular returning drama with detective Cormoran Strike RELEASE DECEMBER 2026
Shot on location and in studios in London and Norfolk (2025/2026)
With Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger
POSSESSION (2025) Snowed-In / Sky Atlantic
Director: Storm Saulter
Producer: Kate Ogborn
Writer: Karla Crome
5 part thriller about the disputed inheritance of a former sugar plantation set in 18thC and present day. RELEASE AUGUST 2026
Shot on location and in studios in Bristol and Jamaica 2024/25
With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jonny Lee Miller, Sheldon Shepherd and Bel Powly
BRIAN AND MARGARET (2024) Baby Cow/ Channel 4
Director: Stephen Frears
Producer: Dan Winch
Writer: James Graham
3 part period drama based on interviews between Margaret Thatcher and Brian Walden
With Steve Coogan and Harriet Walters
Nominated for BFDG production design award 2026
MOTHER, MOTHER (2023) Potboiler Productions/ Secret Hideout/ Blue Sky
Director: K’Naan Warsame
Producer: Andrea Calderwood
Feature film set in Somalia, shot on location in Kenya and Somaliland
Global Premiere TIFF September 2024 , FIPRESCI Prize winner 2024
THE SALT PATH (2023) Number Nine Films/ BBC Films
Director: Marianne Elliott
Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen
Feature film based on the best selling book by Raynor Winn
With Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs
Global Premiere TIFF September 2024, global cinematic release May 2025
ONE LIFE (2022), See-Saw Films/ BBC Films
BFDG Award for Best Period Film, 2024
Director: James Hawes
Producers: Guy Heeley, Jo Laurie and Iain Canning
Period drama about the Kindertransport from Prague, shot in London and Prague
With Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn and Helena Bonham-Carter
Gala premieres at TIFF and LFF 2023, cinematic release January 2024
THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY(2021), Essential Cinema/ Free Range Films/ BFI
Director: Hettie Macdonald
Producers: Juliet Dowling, Marilyn Milgrom, Kevin Loader
Feature film based on the novel by Rachel Joyce starring Jim Broadbent, cinematic release April 2023
A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL (2021), Blueprint/ BBC/ Amazon
BFDG Award for best production design for independent TV drama, March 2022
Director: Anne Sewitsky
Producer: Chris Ballantyne
Period drama about the life and notorious divorce of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
BRITANNIA (2020 – 2021), Vertigo Films/ Neal Street/ Sky
Directors: Ben Gregor, Joasia Goldyn, Mackenzie Crook
Producer: Rupert Ryle-Hodges
Season 3 of period fantasy drama based around Roman conquest of Britain
HONOUR (2019), Hera Pictures
Director: Richard Laxton
Producers: Alliea Nazar, Liza Marshall
Powerful crime drama series about honour killing, based on real events, broadcast ITV 2020
SUMMERLAND (2018), BFI/ Embankment Films
Director: Jess Swale
Producer: Guy Heeley
Magical period drama with Gemma Arterton (cinema release August 2020)
SUPER BOWL LIII , Bud Light/ Game of Thrones, (Feb 2019), Anheuser-Busch, HBO
Award: Super Clio 2019 Agencies: Wieden + Kennedy, Droga5
Products: Bud Light, Game of Thrones: “For the Throne”
Directors: David Nutter, Spencer Riviera
JUST HENRY ITV
Director: David Moore; based on the novel by Michelle Magorian
Family drama set in 1949 shot on location & studios in Yorkshire
THE NATIVITY Kudos/ Red Planet for BBC1
Director: Coky Giedroyc; Writer/Exec: Tony Jordan
Period Drama shot on location & studios in Morocco
EXODUS Artangel, Channel 4
Director: Penny Woolcock
Contemporary reworking of the Book of Exodus
Collaboration with Anthony Gormley
THE BEST MAN also known as Unhitched
Director: Stefan Schwarz
Romantic comedy
Shot on location and in studios in Hungary & UK
LENA The Bride of Ice
Director: Polly Steele
Contemporary reimagining of the life of Alma Mahler
Premiered at Venice 2003
10 MINUTES OLDER
Portfolio feature “Addicted to the Stars”
Director: Michael Radford
With Daniel Craig and Roland Gift
Premiered at Venice 2002
ART DIRECTION
LEGACY OF SPIES (2026) Ink Factory/ BBC/ Amazon MGM
Credit: Supervising Art Director UK
Directors: Michael Lennox, Claudia LLosa
Production Designer: Tom Conroy
Cold War drama based on novels of John Le Carre, UK section shot on location in Liverpool
THE RHYTHM SECTION (2018, released 2020), Eon Productions, Paramount Pictures
Credit: Supervising Art Director
Director: Reed Morano, Producers Barbara Broccoli, Michael G Wilson
Production Designer: Tom Conroy
Action film with Blake Lively and Jude Law, shot in Ireland and Spain
SERENITY Identical Pictures, I M Global
Credit: Senior Art Director
Director: Steven Knight
Production Designer: Andrew McAlpine
Drama with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, shot in Mauritius
GAME OF THRONES, Seasons 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 HBO
Awards: EMMY for Excellence in Art Direction, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
BAFTA for Best TV Production Design, 2018; special BAFTA Craft Award 2018.
Honors for Excellence in Art Direction, ADG, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018; Best Production Design, BFDG 2017
Credit: Supervising Art Director, Foreign Unit (Morocco, Croatia and Spain)
Production Designers: Gemma Jackson, Deborah Riley
DENIAL , BBC Films, Participant Media
Nomination: BAFTA Best British Film, 2017
Credit: Supervising Art Director
Director: Mick Jackson, written by David Hare
Production Designer: Andrew McAlpine
Drama shot on location in UK and Poland
THE OTHER MAN Rainmark Films
Credit: Supervising Art Director
Director: Richard Eyre
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Thriller set in Milan and UK
JOHN ADAMS HBO
Awards: EMMY for Excellence in Art Direction, 2008
Honors for Excellence in Art Direction, ADG 2008
Credit: Supervising Art Director, Hungary
Director: Tom Hooper; Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Period Drama shot on location & studios in Hungary
SPARTAN Franchise Pictures
Credit: UK Art Director
Director: David Mamet
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Thriller with Val Kilmer
A DIFFERENT LOYALTY Lions Gate Films
Credit: UK Art Director
Director: Marek Kanievska
Period thriller with Rupert Everett and Sharon Stone
KILLING ME SOFTLY Montecito Picture Company
Credit: Art Director
Director: Chen Kaige
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
Thriller based on the novel by Nicci French
HOTEL SPLENDIDE Film 4
Credit: Supervising Art Director
Director: Terence Gross
Production Designer: Alison Dominitz
ROGUE TRADER
Credit: Supervising Art Director
Director: James Dearden
Production Designer: Alan Macdonald
Shot in UK, Malysia and Singapore
LOVE IS THE DEVIL
A Portrait of Francis Bacon BBC Films/ BFI Productions
Credit: Art Director
Director: John Maybury
Production Designer: Alan Macdonald
THE BORROWERS Working Title
Credit: Assistant Art Director/ Stand-by
Director: Peter Hewitt
Production Designer: Gemma Jackson
SURVIVING PICASSO Merchant Ivory
Credit: Assistant Art Director
Director: James Ivory
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Columbia Pictures
Credit: Storyboard Artist
Director: Ang Lee
Production Designer: Luciana Arrighi
ADDITIONAL
I am a qualified architect and worked for various architectural practices before switching to production design.
Outside of UK I have worked in Jamaica, Kenya, Somaliland, Mauritius, Morocco, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Italy, France, Dubai, Greece, Malaysia, Singapore & USA.
EDUCATION
St Martin’s School of Art: Foundation Course in Art
Cambridge University: BA, MA and Diploma in Architecture
National Film and Television School: Diploma in Production Design