Melbourne-based design agency launched
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Based in Melbourne, Additive consists of Ben “Bosco” Shaw, Paul Lim and Tom Wright who between them offer a wide range of skill sets. After years of working on productions and festivals around the world, these three experienced professionals, and close friends, have joined forces to harness their collective industry experience and technical knowledge.
"Whether it’s an innovative design, a complex activation or an expansive festival, concert, theatre production or event, we offer experience, knowledge and creativity to deliver an elegant solution tailored to any budget or timeline,” commented Tom Wright. “Additive is a design and technical production house made up of good guys who want to see your project evolve and succeed."
Bosco is a lighting and set/space designer and builder. His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds across, and can influence, a space. Predominantly he sees his role within the development of works to propose and facilitate alternate lighting sources and means, so that an idea can evolve spatially and have subtle resonance.
Training as a theatre stage manager in the UK gave Tom the grounding to understand how each department and individual plays a part in all productions, small or large. Always to be found chatting - to crew, artist and clients - he loves the conversations that working in the arts provides and enjoys nothing more than helping a project deliver its message to the audience.
Paul can be happily found either buried in stacks of scheduling and budgeting paperwork, or with a soldering iron in his hand, fixing circuit boards, there aren’t many aspects of putting on a show that Paul hasn’t tackled and succeeded in during his career.
(Jim Evans)
