About
From Nottingham to London.
At home in Ireland as a Set Decorator..
I’m Justine Wright and earlier in my career I worked in TV Production design in the UK - Designing, Art Directing, & Prop Styling - Drama, Light Entertainment, Music, Arts & Culture and Childrens TV.
My starting point was as an Assistant In the Art Dept of ‘Live & Kicking’. Each week we would design, create and dress sets with props for presenters, comedy sketches, live bands, Leprechaun puppets and Mr Blobby! I went on to Assist and Art Direct with many other Production designers on iconic TV Shows such as - Top Of The Pops, Jools Holland, Blue Peter, & Waking The Dead……
This lead to me to designing a few productions for the BBC and ITV.
Today I live in Ireland with my family and work in Film, TV & Advertising.
I got my start in Ireland as a Buyer which I loved…meeting suppliers - creating contacts, searching peoples attics, antique shops, car boot sales for prop and dressing treasures, learning the process.
Through an opportunity as Assistant Set Dec on ‘The Turning’ my passion became clear -
SET DECORATION.
This reconnected me with my earlier career as an Art Director where I had designed, sourced and dressed sets in the UK.
I love the work I do …The creative process in which a Script, Sketch or Cardboard Model evolves into a
3-Dimensional reality or when the Prop, Chair, Paper or Cloth you’ve toiled endlessly to find, is finally positioned on the set, ready for Action.
I research, source, budget, co-ordinate and dress the weird and the wonderful from Period to Modern Day - antiques, salvage, furniture, product placement, wallpaper, fabrics liaising with art dept, props, graphics, drapes, greens, painters & construction.
In the past year…I have helped launch a new Social Enterprise - A Non profit Prop Hire company ‘ Contemporary PROPS 360’.
Alongside four female colleagues in the SET DEC dept, we saw a growing need for a sustainable business that accepted donations of props and furniture from film, tv and advertising productions that would provide a resource for everyone and reduce waste. Based in Tallaght, we are keeping props in the circular economy that would otherwise go to charity or landfill - Our rentals are for a nominal fee that all set decorators, buyers, art directors, photographers have access to via a curated online catalogue of Contemporary SET DEC, its a fantastic irish resource and we hope for it to continue to grow.