AlexHolmes

Alex Holmes is a production designer based in Australia with representation in the USA (CAA), Australia (Cameron’s Management) and the UK (Echo Artists). Holmes has built an extensive list of credits as a production designer on feature films, television and commercials. His film credits include the recent box office hit The Invisible Man starring Elizabeth Moss, directed by acclaimed director Leigh Whannell, as well as world-famous auteur director Jennifer Kent’s two critically and internationally acclaimed feature films The Babadook and The Nightingale. All three films have attracted wide acclaim internationally for their production design and garnered award nominations at the AACTA Awards and APDG Awards in Australia. In 2021, he collaborated with one of Australia’s most famous artists – painter Del Kathryn Barton – on her daring debut feature film Blaze. Holmes recently collaborated with highly acclaimed TV drama and commercials director Lucy Forbes (UK) on the big-budget Netflix limited series Eric (2023), set in 1980s New York City, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Holmes won a prestigious APDG Award for Best Production Design in a TV series for Eric.

Holmes also has an extensive list of TV commercial credits, regularly working with top-tier Australian production companies such as Revolver, Scoundrel and Collider, collaborating with world-renowned TV commercial directors such as Steve Rogers and Michael Spiccia. Holmes’ recent collaboration with Rogers on the Telstra Wherever You Go campaign picked up a Cannes Lion Award, among many other international awards. His most recent TV commercial with Forbes on her groundbreaking advert for Libresse, Never Just a Period, in the UK, won Best Production Design at the Golden Arrows UK 2025, among other awards. Holmes’ TV commercials have won Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for production design at the Cannes Lions, APAC shots, Ciclope Berlin and LIA Awards.

Holmes comes from a fine art background, originally studying painting at the NSW College of Fine Arts as well as the internationally acclaimed Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. He completed a master’s in production design at the Australian Television and Radio School in 2004 where he was the winner of the Fox Award for Best Production Design in his graduating year.

Holmes takes pride and care in his ability to collaborate creatively with directors to fulfil their vision. Holmes values and respects directors and producers and the pressures they face and always works hard to deliver designs that come from an authentic sense of character and emotion, with a keen and detailed awareness of the individual tone and style desired for each individual story.

Holmes, born in London, also holds a UK passport.

Alex Holmes