Biography
Janet Patterson (12 August 1956 – 21 October 2016) was an Australian costume designer and production designer. She trained at East Sydney Technical College and Sydney College of the Arts, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and a diploma in Textile Studies and Costume Design. She also held a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust scholarship to study architecture in Switzerland. Patterson began her career in the 1980s with production, costume and set design for ABC Television before moving into feature films.
She is best known for her long collaborations with directors Jane Campion and Gillian Armstrong. Her credits include costume design on The Piano (1993), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Holy Smoke (1999), Bright Star (2009) and Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), as well as Peter Pan (2003). She frequently served as both costume and production designer. Patterson received four Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design, a BAFTA Award for The Piano, and multiple AACTA Awards.
