Slim Tulloch

At the turn of spring in the alpine regions of Victoria, snow is melting slowly revealing life below its clean white cover. Grasses are springing to life; small plants begin to sprout and the true shape of the formally hidden landscape is revealed. Vast areas of rocks, low shrubs and windswept Snow Gums populate the horizon. Gullies team with creeks and groundcovers begin to blossom. This design serves to complement that moment but transposing its forms and composition into an urban courtyard. For a client that enjoys the simplicity and calming nature of the high country.

Mounded earth with two sculptural Snow Gums form the structure of the space, framed with low growing shrubs allowing their trunks to make a twisted gnarled statement as they age. Clipped westringia serves as the mid height formality punctuating ribbons of white flowering shrubs such as Convolvulus cneorum. The entire floor is planted with groundcovers that are happy to live under the shade of a steel grate walkway taking visitors to a private seating area. Here they are surrounded by the sweeping lines of Poa sieberiana, softening the horizontal forms of the fence line and blurring the connection between garden and sky. A nod to the ghostly texture of leafless Snow Gums after the harsh burns of summer bushfires. Swathes of unmelted snow litter the corners of the shady areas in the garden, represented with white quartz gravel. Interrupting the silver foliage and softening the edges of the stern metal walkway. And through that grated walkway we see sparks of life pushing through. Long stems of grass, and the cheerful bursts of billy buttons serve to draw the visitor further into the garden to discover what else could be underfoot.

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PRODUCED BY // Pursued By Bear

DIRECTED BY // Mark Taylor

YEAR // 2019

… simple but effective set design – tufts of grass, flowers, small bundles of books and a couple of large floor-to-ceiling slatted backdrops with the prodigious use of small wooden crates - The Blurb

PRODUCED BY // Watch This Inc.

DIRECTED BY // Sonya Suarez

YEAR // 2019

Sarah Tulloch's set design and Rob Sowinski's lighting design cleverly create chiaroscuro on the empty white canvas stage which throughout the show blossoms into colour. - Broadway World

The creative team have produced a very handsome production that fits the intimate Lawlor Studio like a glove. A stark white frame outlines the stage, creating not only the illusion of a traditional proscenium arch, but also the sense that everything on stage is happening inside the painting. - Arts Hub

PRODUCED BY // Australian Shakespeare Company

DIRECTED BY // Otis Elston

YEAR // 2018

Alice in Wonderland at Kew Gardens is fantastically and interactively geared towards children, but it is a treat for the whole family. - London Theatre reviews

PRODUCER // Pursued By Bear

DIRECTED BY // Mark Taylor

YEAR // 2016

The set is a café, complete with a full coffee set-up allowing coffee to be served before the show. Instead of usual additional front rows, there are café tables. These elements combined with all the intricacies – partially filled liquor bottles, plants, a chef hat on a band member – allow for an intimate and inviting set. We, as the audience, are in a café watching all of the awkwardness and discomfort of a first date. - Theatre People

The first and most striking aspect of the production is the beautifully realised scenic design by Sarah Tulloch. - Simon Parris Man In Chair

PRODUCER // Pursued By Bear

DIRECTOR // Tyran Parke

YEAR // 2017

A simple and striking set comprising numerous towering translucent fabric sheets as the floating buildings of the shows New York setting. - Broadway World

PRODUCED BY // Pursued By Bear

DIRECTED BY // Paul Watson

YEAR // 2016

Strongly supporting the sharp but frantic creative mind of Larson is the highly detailed, immersive production design of Sarah Tulloch. The piano is the central feature on a platform of wooden floorboards, which is surrounded by a myriad of strewn pages of sheet music and all manner of inspirational minutiae. - Simon Parris Man in Chair

PRODUCED BY // Secret Squirrel Productions

DIRECTED BY // Tamesin Holyman

YEAR // 2014