Patrick Kinmonth

Patrick Charles Kinmonth (born 27 August 1957) is an Anglo-Irish opera director and designer, filmmaker, writer, painter, interior designer, art editor, creative director and curator. He is widely known for his many stage, costume, interior and architectural designs and has been recognised internationally for the breadth and depth of his creative interests. His many collaborations have yielded landmark opera, ballet and dance productions, books and exhibitions. Kinmonth is working principally as an opera director and has been awarded and acknowledged for the quality of his work as exhibition curator, designer in many fields and general creative force. He has been described as "a contemporary example of the Renaissance man" and "one of the most indefinable personalities of contemporary art".

Kinmonth is the youngest of four siblings. His father, Maurice Kinmonth (1917–2009), was a consultant plastic surgeon, who encouraged young Patrick's talent for drawing. He was educated at Uppingham School and in 1977 gained a place at Mansfield College, University of Oxford to study English Language and Literature, and enrolled at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art as an associate student.

During his undergraduate years, Kinmonth regularly participated in theatre productions at the Oxford Playhouse and elsewhere as director, designer and actor. At Oxford he became the art director of The Isis (the Oxford University magazine).

After graduating from Oxford aged 20 in 1979 with a first class degree in English language and literature, Kinmonth moved to Venice with the intention of continuing his work as a painter and lectured on aspects of modern art and poetry. He returned to the UK in 1981 to seek a wider artistic practice. Kinmonth was a winner of British Vogue's Talent Competition and was appointed as arts editor of Vogue. He has subsequently contributed articles to British Vogue, Vogue Italia, American Vogue and Vanity Fair on emerging artists, designers, architects and directors and many of the world's leading photographers.

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