Wendy's passion for theatre and film lead to her career as a costume designer. After graduating from The University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Arts she continued her design study at East Sydney Technical College. Her many years of experience now include theatre, film, television, opera and the world of gaming.
Wendy's visually accurate costume design expresses the individual within the world of story telling.
Her specialities include period and character driven dramas and both contemporary and period uniforms.
The combination of Wendy's talented design aesthetic and an astute management of budget make her a valuable asset to any team or project she is assigned to.
With a wealth of experience as a costume designer she has produced period costumes spanning many decades as seen in Julien Temples recent film opera The Eternity Man where the brief stretched form 1920's to present day and L.A. Noire, a next generation video game soon to be released by Rockstar Games with its sumptuous recreations of 1940's underworld Los Angeles.
Wendy's work with Australian directors Peter Duncan and Tony Tilse includes the contemporary romantic comedies Valentines Day; Hell Has Harbour Views and Go Big. James Bogle's In the Winter Dark, a psychological thriller starred Brenda Blethyn and Miranda Otto. A host of modern day police dramas include the US action film Counterstrike and the upcoming Sea Patrol 3, East West 101, Dangerous and Blackjack amongst others.
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— View Wendy's showreel.
Melinda has just concluded production design on The Boys Are Back In Town which was shot on location in Adelaide and London and was directed by Scott Hicks. Other recent work includes the design on the feature Triangle directed by Christopher Smith, the short film Netherland Dwarf directed by David Michod, the animated feature 9.99 directed by Tatia Rosenthal for Sherman Pictures, The Home Song Stories directed by Tony Ayres, for which she won both an AFI award and IF award for Best Production Design in 2007, Suburban Mayhem (costumes) directed by Paul Goldman, The Silence (Production Design) directed by Cate Shortland, Unfolding Florence directed by Gillian Armstrong, Little Fish (costumes), directed by Rowan Woods, Somersault (Production Design) directed by Cate Shortland for which she won an AFI in 2004 for Best Production Design.
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— Download Article from Animation World Magazine (PDF, 78kb)
— Download Article from Variety (PDF, 4.1mb)
— View Melinda's showreel.