Patrick Charles Kinmonth was born on 27 August 1957 and is an Anglo-Irish opera director and designer, filmmaker, writer, painter, interior designer, art editor, creative director and curator.
23 Facts About Patrick Kinmonth
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Patrick Kinmonth is known for his many stage, costume, interior and architectural designs.
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Patrick Kinmonth's father, Maurice Kinmonth, was a consultant plastic surgeon, who encouraged Patrick's talent for drawing.
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Patrick Kinmonth attended Uppingham School and later, in 1977, studied English Language and Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford Patrick Kinmonth enrolled as an associate student at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
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Patrick Kinmonth became the art director of The Isis.
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In 1981, Patrick Kinmonth returned to the UK and won the British Vogue's Talent Competition.
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Patrick Kinmonth was appointed as arts editor of Vogue and has since contributed articles on emerging artists, designers, architects, and directors to various publications including British Vogue, Vogue Italia, American Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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Patrick Kinmonth commissioned work from, and collaborated with, many renowned photographers, ranging from Andre Kertesz, Jacques Henri Lartigue and Horst to David Bailey, Mario Testino, Tessa Traeger and Bruce Weber.
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Patrick Kinmonth established working relationships with Testino and Traeger for Vogue.
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In 2003 Patrick Kinmonth curated A Gardener's Labyrinth: Portraits of People, Plants and Places, an exhibition of Traeger's photography for the National Portrait Gallery, and wrote the text for the eponymous book, translated into Dutch and German.
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Towards the end of the 1980s, Patrick Kinmonth returned to painting.
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Patrick Kinmonth's canvasses were exhibited by Richard Demarco Gallery at the International Contemporary Art Fair at Olympia and were used by Jasper Conran as scenic backdrops to complement his costume designs for David Bintley's one-act ballet Tombeaux for The Royal Ballet.
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Patrick Kinmonth's set and costume designs for Carsen's staging of La Traviata were commissioned by La Fenice for the Venetian theatre's post-fire reopening in 2004.
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In 2000, Patrick Kinmonth worked for the first time with the director Pierre Audi.
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Audi and Patrick Kinmonth created a production of Handel's Partenope for Theater an der Wien in 2009 and in 2011 staged Vivaldi's Orlando furioso at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris as well as in Nice and Nancy.
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Patrick Kinmonth has designed sets and costumes for three of Melo's original dance works: A Guest House, created for and first staged by Goteborgsoperans Danskompani ; Fountain, a 20-minute dance theatre work produced at the Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz, and Tending to Fall, conceived for GoteborgsOperans.
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Patrick Kinmonth designed the production's sets and costumes.
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Patrick Kinmonth returned to the staging the following year, making revisions and overseeing its revival at the Grand Theatre de Geneve in November 2012.
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Patrick Kinmonth was engaged by Cologne Opera to direct and design Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten.
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Alongside his work for the stage, Patrick Kinmonth has achieved success as a creative director and exhibition curator.
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Patrick Kinmonth first served as creative consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, designing its exhibition Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century.
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Patrick Kinmonth curated and designed Diana: Princess of Wales, an exhibition of iconic images and previously unseen photographs by Mario Testino created in 2005 for Kensington Palace.
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Patrick Kinmonth has worked as curator and designer for Testino's Todo o Nada ; In Your Face and British Royal Portraits, and Private View.