Pete Wallace

Biography

Pete Wallace (MA, BA/BSc)

Pete Wallace is a Video Designer and Technical Director working full-time at Guildhall in the Production Arts Dept. His role covers teaching and supervision on the BA Digital Design & Production degree, alongside other courses connected with backstage roles. His career was enhanced greatly by 10 years working as a 3D Effects Technical Artist around the London Visual Effects industry on a variety of high budget feature films and broadcast shows. These have included The Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, Framestore and Cinesite, producing complex solutions to cinematic milestones that required research and development in the areas of simulation, animation and new tools needed for creative teams to innovate.

Drawing on the burgeoning need for performative playback in the events industry, Pete spent a further 10 years building up a freelance business which consulted, designed, delivered and curated live performed media. This culminated largely in video projection, architectural mapping and animation featured as part of music events, theatre or private parties. These bespoke and reactive cultural deliveries honed an understanding of how meaningful and entertaining time-based media could be if made performative or interactive, and allowed him to develop dedicated clients all over the UK.

A strong connection with education and live performance has always been part of his journey, driven by a desire to enable young or newly involved creators to take advantage of the growing employability crossover between film, stage and the visual arts. In recent years a dedication to students’ progress and happiness when preparing for industries that can be stressful or demanding has seen Pete begin training around the pastoral and safeguarding topics which surround this. Becoming part of the City of London’s Dignity at Work team, and undertaking Mental Health First Aider training has added to a set of skills which feel very important going forward, at a time when active community support should include compassion at all levels of society.