Bård is a prizewinning Norwegian scenographer whose career has spanned for more than twenty years. In this time he has developed 95 set designs and created an additional 57 separate costume designs for professional theatre productions. His curation of major exhibitions of art by Norwegian painter Munch has been presented at prominent galleries and art festivals. Teaming up with theater group Unteatru, he created an installation for their performance of The Pied Piper from Hamlen.

Recalling how the creative process started he writes:

I was working I Bergen, at the west coast of Norway at the time we started the project. This city is surrounded by seven mountains. Each day I passed this maid mountain on my way to work. The way the fabric covered the heap, gave association to camps for refuges. The black hole in front of it, like a gate, was both exiting and fearful. I wanted it to be a little bit naive in relation to the tales form, because I think that this stories often cover for something deeper in human consciousness. I worked with the form of a stylized mountain to make a theatrical and naïve form. Since the theater was planned to be outdoor, I wanted to give the experience of going into something and get isolated from the outside. In the tale from Hamlen the children are led into a mountain. This is told by a blind, a deaf and a lam child, who was the only children to return.