> > Paul co-founded Scale Project with artist/designer Simon Daw in 2000. It aims to use a multimedia fusion of visual art and theatre to explore a thematic approach to each project. The current project's theme is the history of new towns, both real and ideal, and the lives of the people that live in them. Structured as a series of collaborations with artists, performers and members of the public, the project focused on two specific urban communities: the 'new town' of Harlow in the UK and Novosibirsk in Siberia, before, most recently, developing and performing New Town at The Arches, Glasgow. Please click Scale Project on the links page to find out more.
> > New Town, The Arches, Glasgow - a performance devised with performers Bill Aitchison, Rob Evans, Graeme Mackay and Judith Williams, with video by James Lapsley and sound by Andrew Flett. New Town was a promenade performance in an installation that was at once a planning office and a future city, populated by its characters' imaginations and a colony of ants.
> > Suitcase City, Harlow, Essex - Using a collection of stories, visual material, video interviews with residents and research generated during the previous parts of the project, Scale Project ran a residency in the 1950s 'new town', culminating in a multi-media, live performance at the Town Hall, devised with performers Bill Aitchison and Nicki Walsh, lit by Katharine Williams and accompanied by an exhibition of previous Scale Project work.
> > (clockwise from top left): Bunker, filmed with the dance group Vampeter in a nuclear bunker in Novosibirsk, Siberia; a fictional tour of Novosibirsk by actors from Stary Dom Theatre; Charleyville, a film made with performer Su Squire in Prince Charles's vernacular style town Poundbury, Dorset, and Suitcase City, a city in a suitcase, constructed from objects given by Russian and English artists and exhbited in Novosibirsk and Harlow,
> > Scale Project recently exhibited in 2D - 3D: Design for Theatre and Performance, organised by the Society of British Theatre Designers, at the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden. Highlights from the exhibition, including Scale Project, .were selected to form part of the British national display at the last Prague Quadrennial, The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue for 2D - 3D is still available from the SBTD office and theatre bookshops, including the RNT bookshop. The British display at Prague won the Golden Triga, the highest award. British designers also took gold medals for set and costume design.