Lucy Scott Biography
Lucy Scott is a costumer, director and painter working in theatre and live performance, events and advertising. She graduated from UNSW with a double degree in Fine Arts and Theatre Studies.
Her costume design work has been seen on stages around Australia, as well as floating around the world on ships and at the occasional independent film festival.
In 2018 Lucy relocated to London and initially made costumes for parties and events at Annabel’s private club before landing a full time costume designer role for a production company which produced shows for cruise ships. She returned to Sydney at the start of covid.
During the lockdowns Lucy began passionately rebuilding her art practice. Since then she has hardly been without a brush in her hand; painting portraits, murals and commercial advertisements, costume art finishing and working on her own projects.
Recent mural works have been private commissions, Taubman’s Paint Series Performance in Paint (Scenes from Parramatta Eels games) painted live at the stadium. Hep C Cured, reImagine Festival, Tech Deck, 5 Seconds of Summer; The 5th Studio mobile murals for Street Fighter Media.
Since mid 2021 Lucy has been the ‘resident artist’ at Janet Hine Design and has collaborated with legendary milliner Rick McGill to create Lautrec inspired painted latex wigs for all productions of Moulin Rouge the Musical globally. She has worked as art finisher on costumes for Disney’s Frozen and Dubai Expo.
Currently, Lucy is designing costumes for Tim a new work by Tim McGarry from the novel by Colleen McCulloch and directed by Darren Yap. She is coordinating costumes for James Browne for Sydney World Pride 2023. She is also working on replicating costumes she designed for Mr Stink in 2017 for a remount this year.
Lucy has also directed and assistant directed several operas, including her 2017 production of L’enfant Prodigue by Debussy which she produced, designed and directed.