Candice is an Australian creative based in London working across Film, Stage and Illustration.
She graduated with first class honours from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in 2015 with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production), making her professional design debut the
following year with Victorian Opera. She designed eight works for the company and
was their inaugural Developing Artist (Designer). She has also designed
for the State Opera Company of South Australia.
Candice has interned with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and State Theatre Company of South Australia and worked alongside prominent designers, choreographers and directors. In 2019 she founded Lumyth, a collective of artists creating short films that tell stories through dance, music and design.
As Creative Director, the groups first film, ICARUS received awards at the Utah Dance Film Festival, and their second Animated Film Clara and Claus received official selection at Leeds Young Film Festival and Semi-Finalist at the New York Animate Film Awards.
In 2021, she created and directed the comedy podcast series The Midnight Snack, which she then developed into the Offie Nominated touring fringe show.
Candice worked in Company Management for Victorian Opera from 2016 - 2019 before moving to London where she worked for Rambert contemporary dance company as an Executive Assistant.
She's currently the Executive Assistant at Donmar Warehouse.
2022:
Event Design, Alehouse Sessions, Southbank Centre
Director/Producer, The Midnight Snack, Camden Fringe, White Bear & Drayton Arms Other Mysteries
Editor-in-Chief, LOST Vol 1 (Zine) , MUDLXRD
2021:
Art Direction, Peaky Blinders : The Redemption of Thomas Shelby Trailer, Rambert
Set Design, Home, Rambert
Costume Design, Never to Forget, Rambert
Writer/Creator, The Midnight Snack, Podcast
Director, The Midnight Snack - Live! Ealing Fringe
2020:
Direction & Animation, Clara & Claus, Short Animated Film, Lumyth
2019:
Set and Costume Design, Madeline Lee, State Opera of South Australia
Set Design, Alice through the Opera Glass, Victorian Opera
Associate Costume Designer, A Little Night Music, Victorian Opera
Design and Direction, ICARUS, Dance Film Clip, Lumyth
Set Design, Orpheus, Forest Collective
Illustration, Midnight Snack, Graphic Novel, Shortlisted Finalist, Wyndham Writing Awards
2018:
Design Intern, Coraline, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Set and Costume Design, Pelléas et Mélisande, Victorian Opera
Grant Recipient, Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2017:
Developing Artist Designer, Victorian Opera
Set and Costume Design, The Snow Queen, Victorian Opera
Set and Costume Design, The Princess and the Pea, Victorian Opera
Selected 'Emerging' Costume Designer, The Human Project, World Stage Design Taiwan
2016:
Set and Costume Design, Cinderella, Victorian Opera
Set and Costume Design, The Pied Piper, Victorian Opera
Costume Design, Four Saints in Three Acts, Victorian Opera
2015:
Design Intern Jonathon Oxlade, Popular Mechanicals, State Theatre Company of South Australia
Design Intern Pip Runcimann, The Summer of the 17th Doll, State Theatre Company of South Australia
First Class Honours Graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Design) Victorian College of the Arts
2014:
Selected Exhibitor, International Stage Design Student Works Exchange, Beijing International Biennale
Contact
candicemacallisterdesign (at) gmail (dot) com