Christine Ting – Huan 挺歡 Urquhart is a former Fine Art Painter and Sculptor working in Live Performance as a Set & Costume Designer and as an Art Director & Production Designer for Film. She has a continued interest informs orbiting around new performance somewhere between Film, Gaming and Exhibition.

Her mixed Taiwanese British heritage deeply roots her collaborations with the underrepresented and displaced. She has spent 7 years of her career itinerantly creating work around Europe, Bulgaria, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and is currently settled between Toronto and London. She studied Fine Art at Farnham Art College and Cardiff Metropolitan University, then on to Theatre Design at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She Designed ‘Orphan of Chao’ at Shaw Festival, her most entangled political commentary on tensions between Ancient Empire and Contemporary Democracy through the Costume Design. She was Dora Nominated for Outstanding Costume Design in ‘Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land)’ with Saga Collectif, costuming Indigenous, Settler and Black bodies in a reimagined Greek text. She was also nominated for Outstanding Set Design in ‘Antigone 方’ with YPT where she transformed a traditional pros Theatre into an In-The-Round configuration and viscerally placed the audience on the outskirts of a conflict zone. She designed mainstage season opener Cockroach 曱甴at Tarragon described as an ‘experimental choreopoem.’ Alongside choreographer, Hanna Kiel, she pushed the limits of how performers deliver text and encounter space in a physically dynamic and intense production. This received a Dora Nomination for Outstanding Scenic Design in2023.She designed a durational performance art piece ‘First Trimester’ with Krishna Istha, in their search for the ‘perfect’ sperm donor. The work explored human connection and parenthood and redefined what it means to create a family as a transgender person. Over 100 participants have been live interviewed for this work and it has toured the UK, Copenhagen and New Zealand, and is also in the form of a Netflix Documentary ‘Sperm Donors Wanted. She was an artist in the research and development phase of Trigger Stuff’s project GROUND – an international concept touring production. Provocated by a radical art and horticulture around the subject of biopiracy. She joined academics, creatives and audiences from across the globe to unearth the tangled history of botany, plant use and ownership. Her work questions viewpoints, histories and narrative structure through form as a Design driven interrogation, the body as a political statement and getting audiences out of black boxes to be witnesses to a different kind of event.