Winter Nights

Art Direction, Project Management

Winter in the Wings photographic spread showing two artists at home among houseplants
Winter Nights campaign poster combining a dancer at home with bold white typography and drawn forms

Opportunity

When COVID-19 disrupted live performance, Winter Nights shifted towards experimentation and developing new work. The challenge was to make that creative activity visible without a finished production or a live audience.

Solution

Working with the theatre team and Duncan Wright, we documented artists in their homes. Candid photography, expressive typography and hand-drawn forms connected the festival’s campaign across street posters and digital formats.

Winter in the Wings carried that story into a 124-page publication, bringing the photographs together with interviews, essays and scripts in development. The creative process became the story.

Outcome

A lasting record of Western Australian theatre-making during COVID-19. The campaign made work in progress visible, while the publication gave artists’ ideas a physical presence beyond the festival.

Winter Nights 2020 typographic identity with a crescent moon and starburst
Winter Nights 2020 campaign on street hoardings, pairing artist-at-home photography with playful line drawings
Two pink Winter Nights lightbox posters with artist photography and hand-drawn domestic objects
Winter Nights social campaign: an artist reading, the festival identity and a dancer in a domestic interior
Winter Nights mobile campaign for Brute and Brut, Dancing with Everything and Whoops and Daisy
Winter in the Wings opening spread with oversized black moon and starburst graphics
Red Whoops and Daisy publication spread combining artists’ words, drawings and home photography
Green Survive the Apocalypse publication spread by Rhiannon Petersen
Winter in the Wings publication covers and spreads, pairing artist portraits with interviews and writing
Further Winter in the Wings spreads with artists at home, essays, scripts and experimental graphic treatments