Biography
Andrew McAlpine is a production designer born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 17 August 1948. After graduating from Nottingham University he received the 1974 Calouste Gulbenkian Designer’s Award in Holography for theatre use. He co-founded the Commonstock theatre company and worked with directors and choreographers including Sally Potter and Richard Alston before moving into film and music videos in the 1980s.
McAlpine is best known for his production design on Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993), for which he received BAFTA and Australian Film Institute awards. Other credits include Sid and Nancy (1986), Clockers (1995), The Beach (2000), An Education (2009), Me Before You (2016) and Serenity (2019). He has worked with directors Spike Lee and Danny Boyle, and is long based in the United Kingdom.
