Ali Jones

The Technical Production Digital Collection is named in memory of former Technical Production student Alison Jones. Ali was a much loved and valued member of the QUT Technical Production community and is still dearly missed by former peers and staff, many of them now established industry professionals making their mark across the world in the field of live performance and theatre production.

As the youngest of four children Alison grew up in Byron Bay and from an early age showed her creativity, filling the house with paint, metal, wood, fabric, hot glue, clay, paper and glitter, filling her head and her home with amazing creations.

In 1997, as a high-school student, Ali attended the QUT Academy of the Arts production of West Side Story at what was then known as the Basil Jones Theatre, Gardens Point (now QUT Gardens Theatre). A sentence in the program at that performance read, “sets, costumes, props, lighting and sound by QUT Theatre Production students” and from that moment Alison decided she must go to QUT to learn and to create.

She thrived, fought, stressed, created and loved her way through over thirty productions in her three years studying Technical Production at QUT.

Alison passed away in January 2007 and was posthumously awarded her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production) in March the same year. Her mother says, “She did what she was born to do. She crammed a lifetime into those years. She did what she loved.”