KitMapper

KitMapper is hiring for a Head of Production! More detail available on Arts Jobs. https://lnkd.in/e4e9AdXZ

We're hiring! At KitMapper, we make complex creative projects happen. Exhibitions, immersive installations, live events, touring shows - we're the people who make ideas real. And right now, we're growing our production team with an exciting permanent position in London. Head of Production: A senior leadership role for someone who's equally at home on a site visit and in a spreadsheet. You'll lead our production team end-to-end, from initial brief through to final de-rig, while setting the tone for how we work together and for our clients. If you're an experienced production leader with 4+ years in the arts, live events, or creative technology, and you care as much about people as projects, we'd love to hear from you. Send an expression of interest to us by 24th April.

We're hiring! Two roles, one brilliant team. At KitMapper, we make complex creative projects happen. Exhibitions, immersive installations, live events, touring shows - we're the people who make ideas real. And right now, we're growing our production team with two exciting permanent positions in London. Head of Production: A senior leadership role for someone who's equally at home on a site visit and in a spreadsheet. You'll lead our production team end-to-end, from initial brief through to final de-rig, while setting the tone for how we work together and for our clients. If you're an experienced production leader with 4+ years in the arts, live events, or creative technology, and you care as much about people as projects, we'd love to hear from you. Production Supervisor: A hands-on operational role for someone who takes genuine pride in making things run smoothly. You'll coordinate logistics, supervise installs, manage kit, and keep projects on time and on budget - working across our sites at Somerset House, Forest Hill and client venues. Experience in a creative or cultural production environment and comfort with AV systems is essential. Both roles are full-time, permanent, and based in London. We're a London Living Wage employer and we mean it when we say we care about how we work, not just what we produce. If we sound like your kind of place, get in touch! #Hiring #CreativeProduction #ProductionJobs #LondonJobs #ArtsTech #LiveEvents #ImmersiveArt #KitMapper

We were so proud this weekend to support The Sun At Night at Live At St Giles, Camberwell, supplying a Panasonic PT-DZ21K large-venue projector from our sister organisation Kitto to help transform this extraordinary Grade II* space as day turned to dusk and night, with an incredible artwork by david henckel “It was absolutely incredible. The atmosphere was so powerful. It genuinely felt like everyone in the church was in a shared moment of meditation.” With the house lights down, the building was illuminated solely by the work as organist Ashley Valentine (@organ_ised) led an interplanetary musical journey on the magnificent Bishop & Sons organ (1844), a reminder of how powerful these spaces can be when opened up for culture and community. Huge credit to the St Giles team for an ambitious project that champions the church’s potential as a dynamic performance venue for everyone.

Cultural exports don’t happen by accident: they rely on skilled people, practical infrastructure, and the behind-the-scenes delivery that lets ambitious work travel. Great to see Dave Charlesworth pointing out that giving creatives space, time and the means to be distributed is crucial, at a New Statesman conference this week.

A quick look back at Decades by louise giovanelli which closed on Sunday 18 January at St Mary le Strand (Strand Aldwych). KitMapper delivered the lighting design, lighting equipment and installation for the commission, supporting the after-dark experience through the winter months, aiming to allow the work to feel both cinematic and intimate at once. We're sad to see this one go from just across the road of our office at Somerset House! Commissioned by Create London for Westminster City Council, Decades was a large-scale, site-specific public artwork that temporarily transformed the south-facing façade of the beautiful church (a 300-year-old English Baroque landmark) using a composite image of a shimmering draped curtain. From a distance it read as a sculptural trompe-l’œil; up close, it shifted again, playing with scale, translucency and repetition to alternately conceal and reveal the architecture beneath, including the rhythm and colour of the columns. The work made nods to performance and congregation on the Strand, and to the language of theatrical staging, while also carrying a specifically northern, working-men’s-club material memory. It was an intervention that changed how you encounter the building in passing, and deliberately drew attention to the church itself and the need to look at it again, properly.

A lovely photo in The Times of the sound designer Joseph Digerness tuning Sarah Nicolls 'Inside-Out Piano', part of the 'Souvenir' exhibition at Fitzrovia Chapel. An exhibition curated by our friends Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard around Michael Bracewell’s book Souvenir, with a soundtrack composed by Sarah Nicolls, spatialised by Arup. We're very grateful to have played a role, supplying audio equipment for this beautiful exhibition. The piano is the invention of celebrated pianist and composer, Sarah Nicolls. 'Inside-Out Piano' is a re-shaped Érard grand with the soundboard turned upright, allowing the strings to be exposed and performed with. Sarah will perform the piano live on 20th January followed by a Q&A : tickets via Fitzrovia Chapel events.

We've been delighted to support Elsie Ayotunde Cullen and the adidas x GUAP INTERNATIONAL LTD Originals Creator Network Program for the past two years. Elsie's work as Community Manager has been instrumental in the creative development of so many young people across London, and it's a pleasure for us to be involved with the final showcase exhibitions.

This is such a great exhibition, that we're so happy to have helped develop and install, with project management, equipment hire, and technician crew. Please go see it while you can at Copeland Park & Bussey Building this week!

Bit of a nerdy one from us… A few of the KitMapper team spent last week on specialist audio training, getting properly stuck into line array theory - not just how it works, but how to design and deploy it in the real world. Covering system design and optimisation in ArrayCalc, deployment and control workflows in R1 and networking for reliable, scalable systems on site All part of making sure that when we roll up with a PA, we’re not just plugging things in – we actually know why it sounds the way it does, and how to make it better. We're well versed in working closely with creatives to produce great sounding environments. If you’re planning something that needs more than “just a couple of speakers on sticks”, we’d love to chat!