Hugh Conacher is a lighting and multi-media designer, and a photographer, whose practice is based in live performance. He has collaborated with choreographers, directors, visual artists, and dance and theatre companies throughout Canada and around the world, in venues large and small.
Canadian artists and companies include the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Citadel Theatre, Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the National Arts Centre, Mirvish Productions, QDance, Gearshifting Performance Works, Theatre Projects Manitoba, Freya Björg Olafson and Wanda Koop, to name a few.
I have always been interested in the integration of different forms of light with live performance. My work, the foundation of which is over 30 years as a lighting designer, straddles the worlds of lighting design, new media technologies, projection and photography, blurring the lines between disciplines, using whichever media form best serves the vision of my current project.
My multi-disciplinary process has grown from many years of experience experimenting with light, and expanding those experiments to include new possibilities across artistic mediums, embracing new technologies, culminating in the production of cutting edge work.
Hugh’s love of photography and extreme climates has taken him from the Arctic to the Antarctic in order to capture the changing beauty of these unique landscapes. His photographic work resides in private collections and has been published worldwide.
Hugh is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and L’Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec.
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