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My research towards a Doctorate at Royal Holloway College London was on the use of mask in Greek tragedy. It involved performance based work with actors, using the masks I make in the light of the available evidence on the ancient tragic mask, but adapted to be wearable and usable in modern production conditions. The images on this page show drawings of two of the ancient artefacts that I have studied in preparing the mask designs.
Terracotta female head from Lipari,
in the Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow.
Drawing by Chris Vervain
Some of the research findings have been presented in lectures, accompanied by performance demonstrations, at conferences in the University of London, such as the Postgraduate symposia jointly organized by Royal Holloway and the Archive Of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford. I have given illustrated lectures and practical mask workshops at schools and colleges and at the the Bloomsbury Theatre of University College London.
Terracotta Mask, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Drawing by Chris Vervain
