Papers of Peter Corrigan
MSS 245
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Papers of Peter CorriganCollection Identifier
MSS 245Inclusive date(s)
1952 to 1993Extent and Medium
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Collection Description
This collection comprises manuscript papers and related material produced or accumulated by Peter Corrigan.
Administrative / Biographical history
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Corrigan
Peter Corrigan was born in Australia and educated at Melbourne University and Yale University, New Haven, USA. He is currently a director of the architectural practice of Edmond & Corrigan which has won numerous State and National Architectural Awards. Corrigan was a Guest Professor at Harvard University, USA in 1983-84 and at the Politecnio di Torino in Turin, Italy in 1991 and has lectured in the Architectural Department of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology since 1986.
Corrigan undertook post graduate architecture at Yale University, graduating in 1969 with a Master of Environmental Design and later worked for various architectural firms in America, returning to Australia in 1974. Whilst in the US he became interested in theatre, stage and costume design and worked in several theatres off-Broadway and in New York during this time.
He has designed sets and costumes for productions in most Australian capital cities for Hoopla Productions, Opera Australia, the Australian Performing Group, Melbourne Theatre Company, Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant, Playbox Theatre, Anthill, Going Through Stages, Nightshift, VSO, SATC, Queensland Lyric, Gligil Theatre Company (Theatre of Principle), Belvoir Street Theatre, STC and The Bell Shakespeare Company. He has worked with director Barrie Kosky, as designer, on many productions including Belshazzar, The exile trilogy, Oedipus Rex, Nabucco, and King Lear.
Corrigan received the Green Room Award for Es Brent in 1992 and for Levad in 1993. Amongst his many architectural awards Corrigan was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1989, and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2003. He was best known for his architectural work on the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Building 8 in Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection includes materials in a wide variety of formats, and details Corrigan's work with the Australian Performing Group and many other theatre companies. Materials include correspondence, theatre programmes, newsletters, broadsheets, notes, newspaper clippings, scripts, photographs, slides, architectural plans, theatre designs, set designs, costume designs and theatre posters.
System of arrangement
This collection has been arranged into box then folder order.
Access Restrictions
Other
The collection is available for research.Reproduction Restrictions
Existence and Location of Orginals
Related and Separated Materials
The poster of The Banana Bender by Barry Dickens, La Mama Theatre, has been removed from the collection and framed for hanging within the Library.
Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.