The Brutal Tour collection was created while working on Complicité’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, the show toured the UK and Europe during 2022-23
While travelling with Complicité, Heather took the opportunity to create a body of work based on her love for brutalist architecture.
Where possible, Heather tried to find interesting view points of the often concrete structures and build compositions around looking up, looking through and finding shape and texture to allow for further thought into such hard buildings that are often dismissed as ugly.
Also supporting The Brutal Tour photographs, a collection of photographs from the production of Complicité’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ will be displayed.
Photography started at an early age for Heather with photography lessons given by her Grandfather (a RPS Licentiate) in her early teens. It was the 1990’s so film and the darkroom were still very relevant in the creation of an image and her Grandfather taught her all the processes to create a well composed photograph using cameras that were passed down through the family.
It was clear that Heather would pursue a creative career and studied Art at Basingstoke College of Technology before completing a degree in Theatre Design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2006.
Never wanting to narrow the field of her creative ventures, Heather has worked primarily in theatre however produces and directs her own work in Fashion, Product and Portrait Photography.
