Patrick Kinmonth

Patrick Kinmonth is an award-winning artist, writer, designer and director and will be talking at the festival about his set and costume designs for ballet, theatre and opera. His body of work is vast, with clients including Gucci, Valentino and Jean Paul Gaultier, a stint as art editor of Vogue UK, more than 20 productions in opera houses from Milan to Berlin and exhibition sets at MOMA in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London. He’s currently directing a new production, Saint-Saens Samson and Dalila at the Deutsch Opera Berlin.

“He’s one of the most indefinable personalities of contemporary art. He refuses a static and immutable concept of an artist, so he prefers expressing his extraordinary creativity in different fields”
– VOGUE