Peta Lawson is a Production Designer who has the experience which enjoys the respect of leading players in the film community.

As a graduate of the prestigious ‘Sydney College of the Arts’, Peta has been at the creative front of many Australian feature films, telemovies, mini series and television series. Her career as a Production Designer also encompasses international films and television produced out of Australia, France, Germany and China.

Lawson’s most recent feature credits include ‘33 Postcards’ for the acclaimed Director, Pauline Chan, starring Guy Pearce and Claudia Karvan, and ‘I Am You’ starring Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce, for the Director, Simone North. Presently in post production is the comedy feature ‘Iron Sky’, starring Udo Kier, Julia Dietze, and directed by Timo Vourensola, where Peta created the lunar landscape, lunar building interiors and interior of the space vehicles using concept drawings and plans of the Production Designer based out of Sweden.

Recent television includes the AFI and Logie nominated BBC/ABC Series ‘Dead Gorgeous’, Directed by Stephen Johnson (Yolngu Boy) and produced by the award winning Producers Margot McDonald and Ewan Burnett, as well as re-designing the studio sets of the highly rated television series ‘City Homicide Series 3’ for Producer MaryAnn Carroll.

Taking on the role as replacement designer/art director on Roger Spottiswoode's (Tomorrow Never Dies, Air America) epic drama ‘Children of the Silk Road’ starring Jonathon Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, Lawson built the Nanjing ruins of 1930 under enemy occupation at the famed Shanghai Film Studio's and Hengdian Studios. Peta's previous film in China, as Art Director/Set Decorator for John Curran's (Stone, Praise) ‘The Painted Veil’, starring Edward Norton with Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, recreated the late 1920's London and rural China in both the Shanghai and Beijing Film Studios and on location in China.

Further credits include the AFI award winning television mini series ‘Day of the Roses’ and starring Rebecca Gibney and Peter O'Brian, where amongst many requirements of the period, Lawson re-constructed the backdrop to the horrific 1970’s train disaster which occurred in Granville NSW but was in fact shot in an industrial car-park in Brisbane, Queensland. From the telling of this tragedy, Lawson took on another - a two part Logie Nominated series, ‘Through My Eyes’ – which was a re-enactment of the wrongful conviction of Lindy Chamberlain in the early 1980's. Directed by Di Drew, and starring Peter O'Brian and Miranda Otto, ‘Through My Eyes’ was yet another accomplishment in Peta’s extensive career as a talented Designer.

Lawson’s passion and ability to think outside the square, has contributed to many award winning productions. She has been praised by many in the industry who have relied on her creative drive and unflinching dedication to her craft as recognised by her AFI feature film nomination for production design of 'Deadly' (Directed by Esben Storm). She also designed the multiple award winning children's television series ‘Round the Twist’, adapted from Paul Jennings ‘best-selling’ series of children’s books.