Mick Devine

Mick trained at St Martin's Art School in London and has designed for London’s National Theatre, The Theatre Royal Stratford East and for the Olivier Award-winning West End musical Return to the Forbidden Planet. Mick has written two great shows for Perth Arts: The Lucky Country, which has toured secondary schools in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, and The Big Book Show  which has delighted Perth junior school children since 2012. He also wrote and produced the sell-out Cinderella- It’s a Panto Jim, But Not As We Know It in 2009 and has had a number of short stories published. Well two then. Mick claims to have 'worked' with the likes of Garry Oldman, Mike Leigh, Norman Wisdom, Kenneth Branagh, Iron Maiden and poet Roger McGough but then he did do a lot of minicabbing until Australia took pity on him and invited him to stay. He also taught art in London schools for 25 years. Mick runs our Drawing Workshops for schools as well as our Comics, Cartoons and Caricatures workshops in libraries. He was Artist in Residence at schools in the London boroughs of Islington and Waltham Forest and has provided colourful entertainment all over the world with his five-minute party portraits for clients including Disney and the royal family (we doubt she was amused). Mick's conceptual artwork Thirty Minutes in the Life of an Artist hangs (around) in the Tate Gallery, London.  His play Mummy  was nominated for The Fringe World Theatre Award at the recent Fringe World Festival in Perth and his first novel, Fish God, was published in 2014 (available as an ebook from Amazon, preview here)