Adele Keeley
HND
Costume for the Screen and Stage
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
MA Theatre Arts
Nottingham Trent University
Senior LecturerBA (Hons) Costume for Screen and Stage
Adele’s current research developed from her MA thesis ‘Costume Design: Digital Platform for Design Communication’, exploring new creative techniques for producing costume illustration by engaging with digital technology and as applied to a series of theatre productions. In 2006, Adele conducted a public ‘trial’ at the Society of British Theatre Designer exhibition in Nottingham, ‘Collaborators; Design for Performance’, as part of which she engaged visitors to the exhibition to experiment at drawing with digital equipment in order to record their physical and emotional responses.
As a costume designer, Adele has been involved in many performance productions, including The Serpent Slayer by the Vision Young People’s Theatre Company (Boscombe Community Arts Centre, 2005) and Within These Walls for C Scape Dance Company (Havant Arts Centre, 2007). As part of a Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF) Award in 2007, Adele explored digital approaches in her designs for a series of three productions for the postgraduate acting students at the Arts Educational School, London: Tender (directed by James Tillet); La Ronde (directed by Christine Kimberley) and Mary Barton (directed by Emma Reeves and Andrew Louden).
Together with other members of the BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen and Stage course team, Adele was a co-organiser of the 2006 Costume Symposium, for the purpose of promoting research in costume and performance held at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
Costume design by Adele Keeley for the character of Sophie Carson in the production of Mary Barton staged as part of the MA season at the Arts Educational School, London, directed by Andrew Louden, July 2007. The image demonstrates the stages of creating a costume illustration using a painting technique in Adobe Photoshop developed while researching the digital platform as a design communication tool for costume.