Richard grew up in rural Suffolk and spent his teenage years living in a tent working with local bands and doing the rounds of festivals and youth theatres running the lights and sound while the grown ups were in the beer tent. He left school in 1984 having scraped ‘A’ levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry and after a few months of existential prevarication joined corporate production company Roundel. It was here that Richard discovered his passion for large-scale multi screen installations using slide projection and early computer control systems.

From there to a few years in the fledgling broadcast video facilities industry (Molinare – AV Department Ltd) in Soho before it became a tourist ghetto.

Freelance since 1990, Richard has worked in a variety of roles in touring, television, theatre, fashion, exhibition and corporate. He is happy to work at any level from a helpful phone call to the largest global projects. As designer, department head or ‘one of the team’ he welcomes and relishes any challenge.

Richard was described within the industry in the early days as ‘the video scientist’ for his capability with large multi-screen technology and his tenacious, methodical approach that appeared to solve the ‘unsolvable’. He was awarded the prestigious USA Parnelli Award for Video Director of the Year 2012 for his work with Roger Waters ‘The Wall’ tour and In January 2014 received the Des Fallon Video Visionary Award from TPi Magazine. See the personal message below that Roger Waters recorded for the awards ceremony.