Shakeelah Archibald

Film & drama: JUNIOR DRESSING PROPS | PROPS TRAINEE

Commercials & Content: ART ASSISTANT | PROPS ASSISTANT

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Since 2019, Shakeelah has been bringing stories to life through texture, space, and detail. Working across features, television, commercials, and short films, she has built a strong foundation in the art and props departments, contributing to a wide range of productions with a hands-on, imaginative approach.
As an Art & Props Assistant, she finds joy in the practical craft of storytelling – whether sourcing the perfect prop, hand-painting set pieces, or transforming blank spaces into layered, lived-in environments. Her work is driven by a deep love for visual narrative and the belief that every object on screen carries meaning. This intuitive, detail-focused sensibility has also led her to take on roles as Art Director and Production Designer on smaller-scale and independent projects, where she thrives on creative problem-solving and collaboration.
What sets Shakeelah apart is her ability to blend practical skill with emotional insight, creating grounded, textured worlds. Whether sourcing props, dressing sets, or managing design documents, she brings calm focus and a collaborative spirit to every stage of production.
 
Beyond the production world, Shakeelah is passionate about equity and representation in film and television. She actively mentors early-career creatives, regularly speaking on educational panels and contributing her voice to initiatives aimed at making the industry more inclusive and accessible to all.
For Shakeelah, storytelling isn’t just a job – it’s a way to connect, inspire, and reflect the richness of everyday life through design.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Culprits

SONA

Kolaja

SKILLS:
  • Breaking down scripts/storyboards/client briefs
  • Liaising with designers & clients
  • Scheduling & Budgeting
  • Handling & sourcing Props
  • Props management & transportation
  • Mood boards
  • Knowledge of London prop houses
  • Set Dressing 
  • Standby Prop
  • Prop making
  • Vinyling & coverups 
  • Upholstery 
  • Handling fabrics and soft props
  • Colour matching 
  • Painting 
  • Artificial snow & icicles
  • Silicone molding process
  • SFX 
  • 360 VR Short Film Experience
EQUIPMENT:
  • MacBook Air Laptop
  • Printer
  • Handtools
  • Standby Kit
LANGUAGES:
  • English
  • Basic Italian
LOCATIONS WORKED IN:
  • London & UK
TRAINING & COURSES:
  • Set Etiquette, HETV and Film Standby Art Department Dressing for Camera Course, 2023
  • High Flyer Award for her incredible consistency and determination to pave her way into the HETV Art Department, Fully Focused Productions, 2023 
  • Arts & Props Assisting Course, Art Department, 2023
  • Awarded the BAFTA Bursary as part of the BFI Film Academy Alumni Programme
  • Screenskills Trainee Finder Programme, 2022 – 23
  • Sara Putt Associates Trainee Scheme, 2022
  • Set Ready Training FilmFixer, ScreenSkills, 2021
  • Absolute Beginners: Production Design, London Film School, 2019
REPRESENTED BY:
  • Art Department
    +44 (0) 207 428 0500
    info@art-department.co.uk

Commercials

TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY HOD ROLE
The Honesty Box Jeff Low Channel 4 & Biscuit Ollie Hogan Art Assistant
Ninja Hacked Sunny Bahia Ginger Whippet Films Jenny Dee Propmaster
Mentos Discovery Chris Bristow Black Sheep Studios Jenny Dee Art Department Assistant
RYOBI Vac Stick Mark Dymond Jam Pictures Joel Anderson Art Department Assistant
GoPuff! Rebecca Gower Space City Alice Durkin / Justin Jolly Art Department Assistant
SONA Naomi Grant LAMMB   Set Designer
Omaze ‘Indulge in Luxury with this Soul-Soothing London House Walk Through’  

Transmission Productions Ltd.

   Props Assistant
MINI, Big Love ‘We’re Different. But Pretty Good Together’

 

Iconoclast TV / Scout Productions

   Runner
THINK! Road Safety ‘The Kiss’ #MatesMatter

Teddy Nygh

Fully Focused Productions

  

Art Department Assistant

Film & Drama

TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY HOD ROLE
Cheaters S2  Elliot Hegarty Clerkenwell Films Ltd & Quite Persuasive Films Ltd  Guy Thompson  Art Department Assistant 
Crop Circle 3 Nines DMND CLR Ltd Shakeelah Archibald Art Director
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Gil Kenan Sony Pictures John Van Der Pool SFX Trainee

Gangsta Granny Strikes Again

Dan Zeff

BBC One / King Bert Productions

Julian Fullalove

Art Department Trainee

This Is Christmas

Chris Foggin

Sky Studios / Vertigo Films

Hannah Falconer

Art / Props Department Trainee

To Be Continued

Tracy O’Riordan

Me + You Productions / Groundswell Productions

Stephane Collonge & Nerissa Gill

Art Department Trainee

Culprits

J Blakeson & Claire Oakley

Disney+ / Buried Treasure Productions Limited

Greg Shaw

Art Department Trainee

Eastenders

  

BBC One

Theresa Stevens

Junior Prophand

PRU

Teddy Nygh

BBC Three / Fully Focused Productions

Alex Jones Nash

Art Department Trainee

Short Films

TITLE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION COMPANY HOD ROLE
To Fly or Float Charlotte Peters Dream Hive

Olivia Maiden

 Production Designer
GGG Will Webb Mountain Way Pictures

Production Designer
To Fly Or Float Charlotte Peters Dream Hive Films

Production Designer
Safari Jack Holden My Accomplice

Sychelle Kristen Yanda, Dorottya Székely

 Art Director
Kolaja Judah Meade & Kaylen Francis Three Kingdoms Productions

Michelle Smith

 Art Director
That Door Edem Wornoo Ground Work Productions

Milly White

 Art Department Assistant
Homework Jamie Di Spirito Cool-Pin Limited

Milly White

 Art Department Assistant
God Is Grey Jennifer Drake University of Television & Film Munich

Art Department Assistant
Cleanskin Leon Oldstrong Solaris2 Media

Samuel Ankeah

 Production Designer

Time Won’t Heal

Sychelle-Kristen Yanda

Yanda Created This Productions

Lisa Leach

 Set Design Coordinator

Perfidia

Bruna Pias

Three Two Productions

K.C Hudges & Jafar Mohammed

Production Designer

Girlsplained

Charlene Wango

Fully Focused Productions

Kat Constantinidou

 Production Designer

Watch What I Do

Teddy Nygh

Fully Focused Productions

Alex Jones Nash

 Art Department Trainee
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