My research towards a Doctorate at Royal Holloway College London is on the use of mask in Greek tragedy. It involves 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.
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. Abstracts of the papers are available at the Oxford Archive Website.
Terracotta female head from Lipari, in the Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow.
Drawing by Chris Vervain
Terracotta Mask, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Drawing by Chris Vervain
