INDUSTRY ICONS
40
C hloe Lamford is a globally renowned stage designer who works across theatre, opera, music and installation. She also trained in theatre design at the Wimbledon School of Art and received the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Design for Performance in 2013. Her striking sets have been seen by audiences from all corners of the theatre scene, and she has been the creative mind behind some of the National Theatre’s most groundbreaking shows. She joins LIVE to share her inspiring journey, AV trends she’s picked up along the way and invaluable advice for anyone aspiring to follow in her creative footsteps.
Interview Verity Butler
Could you begin by taking us back to the start of your career and how you got into set design? I’ve been interested in this space since my late teens and did quite a lot of drama before going to art school for a foundation. I was also a very keen photographer, but had to pick which to study – and I couldn’t skip theatre – so chose to do a degree in set design and then just got right into it after that. There’s always quite a weird thing that happens when you leave college where you think, ‘I just call myself a designer now?’. I initially worked for free at a youth theatre for a while, and worked my way up bit by bit from there. In terms of photography, I just love it. In my alternate life, I think I would be a fine art photographer because I enjoy it very much and don’t get much time any more to keep little projects going or develop it. I found contemporary art
Powered by FlippingBook