Lez Brotherston: Bourne and beyond - in pictures

Lez Brotherston works on the costumes for Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, their new production together Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Brotherston positions a figure in the model set for Sleeping Beauty Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

The all-male Swan Lake, directed by Bourne, remains one of their most famous collaborations (not least because it was immortalised in the film Billy Elliot). First seen in 1995, it is regularly revived Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

In Bourne's adaptation of Tim Burton's film Edward Scissorhands, Brotherston had to resolve a unique design challenge: how to give a dancer (Sam Archer in this picture) blades for fingers and at the same time make them safe Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Bourne's take on The Picture of Dorian Gray, set in a world of relentless celebrity and fashion, brought Wilde's delicately poised satire bang up to date. The Guardian's Judith Mackrell praised "the voodoo mix of Bacon, Hirst and Chapman Brothers imagery" in Brotherston's designs Photograph: PR

Bourne's version of Cinderella, which premiered in 2010, transplated Prokofiev's ballet score to the second world war. Courtesy of Brotherston, Cinders was transported from a grey, ration-book world into a glitzy ballroom scene set in the Cafe de Paris Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Bourne's Play Without Words, which premiered in 2002 and was last seen in 2012, is set in 1960s London – allowing Brotherston lots of opportunity to experiment playfully with British design classics such as red phoneboxes, Georgian terraces and Routemaster buses Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Brotherston has also created substantial work elsewhere. This 2010 version of Middleton's 17th-century thriller Women Beware Women, starring Harriet Walter and Samuel Barnett, brought together Medici architecture and 1950s couture in a thrillingly intense vision of the play, as Brotherston explained in a Guardian audio slideshow Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Brotherston's designs for the current Old Vic production of Hedda Gabler, starring Sheridan Smith, has one fixed set – entrapping the heroine in a crystalline prison of glass doors, glittering mirrors and French windows Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Brotherston exhibited a more playful take on the church in the West End production of Sister Act, produced by Whoopi Goldberg, which mingled religious imagery and showbiz razzmatazz Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features

Peter Auty (Nemorino), Robert Luckay (Dr Dulcamara's assistant) and Luciano Di Pasquale (Dr Dulcamara) in Glyndebourne Touring Opera's production of L'Elisir d'Amore at Glyndebourne in 2007 Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian