Everything about Barry Kay totally explained
Barry Kay (born
Melbourne 1932 – died
London 1985), who studied arts at the
Académie Julian in
Paris, was a stage and
costume designer of international renown. In the course of his career, lasting almost four decades, he designed for the
ballet,
drama and
opera alike, working with established directors and choreographers at major theatres and opera houses and their companies worldwide. Kay's emphasis, however, lay in pioneering three-dimensional stage set designs for the ballet. By breaking away from the traditional use of "flat wings" scenery, in designing for the
theatre he expanded on the revolutionary ideas of the
Russian Constructivists and the
Italian Futurists in the early part of the
20th century.
Among others, Kay designed for the choreographers
Walter Gore,
Peter Darrell,
Kenneth MacMillan and
Rudolf Nureyev, as well as for ballet companies such as
Western Theatre Ballet (now
Scottish Ballet),
The Royal Ballet,
The Australian Ballet,
The Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
The Stuttgart Ballet,
The Vienna State Opera Ballet and
American Ballet Theater. Later in his career he also became a
photographer of subjects with socio-anthropological contents.
Kay's artistic contributions to the
performing arts are well-represented and documented at national museums, state galleries, art libraries, theatre collections and archives globally. Public collections include:
Victoria & Albert Museum Theatre Collections, London;
Royal Opera House Collections, London;
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;
State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library, Sydney;
Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne;
Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin;
Österreichisches Theatermuseum, Vienna;
University of Calgary, Library, Special Collections, Alberta, Canada;
MacNay Museum, Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, San Antonio, Texas.
Recognition by the National Library of Australia
In November 2006, the
National Library of Australia - an Australian government body bound by stringent selection criteria - posthumously honoured Barry Kay for his artistic achievements and identified the Barry Kay Archive for conserving, preserving and archiving Kay's creations, as well as for providing public online access to them - as:
Heritage of national significance with long-term research value.
As a result, the online Barry Kay Archive is now permanently integrated into the Library's database of
PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) - Australia's Web Archive - providing independent public internet access to the Barry Kay Archive via the Library's server in perpetuity.
Live Performance Australia awards Barry Kay a place at its Hall of Fame
Live Performance Australia, the peak body for Australia's live entertainment and performing arts industry, posthumously selected Barry Kay as one of eighty theatre artists awarded a place in its newly established virtual Hall of Fame. This Hall of Fame, launched on 30 November 2007, is Live Performance Australia's way of paying tribute to a remarkable collection of people on the occasion of celebrating its 90th anniversary.
Frank van Straten OAM, theatre historian and founding director (1984-1993) of the Victorian Arts Centre's Performing Arts Museum in Melbourne, provided a short biography on each artist, constituting the corner stone of the Hall of Fame. (In 1993 the Victorian Arts Centre was renamed
the Arts Centre, Melbourne.)
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