Mark Thompson
Designer

 Mark Thompson (Class of 1969), has an extensive career as a theatre and corporate designer as well as a ceramic sculptor with nine polo exhibitions In Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. Since 1975 his work has been collected, published and represented In 25 State and public Art Museums including the National Gallery in Canberra and the Powerhouse Museum In Sydney.

 In 1984 Mark began designing for theatre and has designed over 50 productions, lie has worked for most of Australia’s theatre companies Including the State Opera of South Australia, Australian Dance Theatre, The Theatre Company of South Australia, The West Australian Theatre Company, The Hole In the Wall Theatre Company, The Adelaide Festival Centre, Nimrod Theatre Company, West Australian Performing Arts Academy, Magpie Theatre Company and Come Out Youth Arts Festival.

 Productions have included The Rover, Much Ado About Nothing, The Glass Menagerie, Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Seville, Capricornia, A Winter’s Tale and Macbeth. Recent work includes the production design for The Hobbit and the recent tour of Cats - runaway to the circus.

 Corporate clients include The Hyatt Australian Hotels, the Sheraton Hotel chain,  the Adelaide Grand Prix, The Adelaide Entertainment Centre, the Adelaide Festival Centre and various commercial ant government entrepreneurs in Australia and Asia. 

In 1998 Mark was engaged by Madam Tussard’s London, to design their first touting exhibition In 150 years, which was to Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore.

This year, his work has included designing the Independence Day celebrations for East Timor on behalf of the UN and the People of East Timor as well as a production of Taming of the Shrew for Bell Shakespeare and production of Offenbach”s Orpheus in the Underworld for Opera Australia.

A large watercolour Dinah Beach, done by Mark as a 14 year old student, is still a feature of the School’s foyer.