Born in Zimbabwe, he is a Royal Designer for Industry. The recipient of a number of awards, he was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Surrey in 2005.
Design credits include The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Ermione, Manon Lescaut (GFO); Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (ROH); Der Ring des Nibelungen (ENO); A Night at the Chinese Opera (Kent Opera); The Vanishing Bridegroom (Scottish Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera North); Samson et Dalila (the Met); Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Guillaume Tell, Ernani, La forza del destino (Vienna Staatsoper); Lucia di Lammermoor (Munich); The Rake’s Progress (Chicago, Japan); Peter Grimes (Amsterdam); Les Vêpres siciliennes, Khovanshchina (Opéra National de Paris); Tamerlano, Idomeneo (Florence); Benvenuto Cellini (Zurich); The Makropulos Case (Copenhagen); The Fall of the House of Usher (Bregenz); La bohème (Athens).
Plans include La forza del destino (Brussels); Divorzio all‘Italiana (Nancy); Armida (the Met).