BIOGRAPHY

'Josh Knowles is a production designer and curator for film, live art and theatre events. He graduated in 2002 (BA Theatre with Visual Arts, University Of Brighton) and has a PGCE from AUCB in 2006, where he has also taught since 2005. Key skills are illustration, narrative concept design, filmmaking, arts education and project management.

Starting with storyboarding, propmaking and set design for short films and music promos (clients including the artists Kylie, Madness, Bishi, Armstrong And Miller), this led to his primary field of experience and expertise; immersive theatrical environments and narrative spaces for real time live art and theatre events.

Josh's portfolio includes such projects as 'Logic Of The Birds' (Shirin Neshat) for Artangel, synchronised swimming spectaculars and Music Hall extravaganzas for The Whoopee Club, Mexican wrestling shows for Reading, Leeds and Download festival, Silent film reenactments for Future Cinema, an Edwardian time machine for 'The Mask Of The Red Death' (Punchdrunk Theatre), Art Trails for The Campaign For Drawing's Big Draw, DV8 and Gogol Bordello for Tate Modern Live Series and Valentine's Day Flashmobs in Piccadilly Circus.

Since 2008 Josh has designed and managed events for the artists Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis and their educational arts project The House Of Fairy Tales. Highlights include a teenage live arts and music project for Shunt vaults and Latitude Festival, Puppet Shows at Zoo Art Fair and Big Chill Festival, A Mechanical Maypole and other projects for Tate Modern's Long Weekend, A Halloween Parade for Walsall Art Gallery, Daisy Lowe's 21st Birthday Party, Theatrical Banquets for Glastonbury and Port Eliot Festival, A Times Newspaper special HoFT artists edition, and in September 2010- 'Waterwheel'; a participative eco-arts project and installation for The Thames Festival and over 100 primary schools throughout Greater London.

In his own work Josh is primarily interested in the 'Low- brow' and 'Low-Fi' ephemera of pop culture. Using the rhetoric of comic books, B movies, Music Hall, street art and theatre he mixes the mediums of film installation, performance and illustration to explore the themes in his work.'