Speakers & Demonstrators 2016

With over 20 years experience Chris Foster is a leading player within the male hairdressing industry. His unique stance incorporating a modern flair to traditional barbering guarantees that he is always approaching men’s hairdressing with a fresh and innovative mind. This unique approach to male grooming can be seen as Creative Director based at The Refinery, Mayfair and Harrods Barbershop. Also, as Principal of The Foss Academy he is dedicated to providing education through his elite men’s grooming training to ambitious and progressive stylists who want to achieve the highest level of technical excellence.

He is a dynamic international platform stylist who exhibits the right mix of showmanship, energy and education, which is also reflected in his photographic and session work. Chris Foster is currently the Style Director for The British Barbers Association.

Chris’s session work has allowed him to head up global creative teams, demonstrating his diverse skills for shows including Fashion weeks in Paris, Moscow, New York, and London, with a record breaking 105 models Ozwald Boateng OBE show was the largest ever menswear show, held at the Odeon, Leicester Square. He incorporates the essence of fashion trends in all his work, leading styling teams and presenting collections in front of heads of state at the African Union Summit in Ghana; Nigeria and the majestic Royal Albert Hall.

His ability to capture and incorporate the essence of fashion trends in his work, has allowed his skills to be showcased in publications such as Sunday Time’s Style Supplement, Hairdressers Journal, FHM and Men’s Health Magazine. Chris is seen as one of the UK’s leading men’s groomers and is the editor’s choice for features; He also is regular columnist in Professional Hairdresser Magazine and Hair Magazine. 

Helen Casey is the Deputy Head of make up and wigs at the National Theatre. Helen has a wealth of knowledge with regards career paths and invites you to join her at their stand.

Having launched his eponymous range in 2003, British make-up artist, talent and media darling, Daniel Sandler, and his multi-award winning and cult makeup line, now celebrate over a decade in the industry.

Daniel spent over four years developing his multi award-winning, highly innovative and globally acclaimed brand, drawing from his experience as a professional makeup artist, creating a completely fool-proof range of creams, liquids, glosses, serums, stains and tools. His mission statement is to “be your most beautiful” and his range provides a woman with her ‘wardrobe of colour’ with a multi-purpose, hybrid product offering, that ultimately simplifies makeup for all skin tones, with the addition of skincare benefits.  He created the perfect ‘all-in-one’ mascara, the ultimate waterproof eyeliner crayon and his multi-tasking Watercolour range has a global cult following and is available in the prettiest hues that suit absolutely everyone. Moreover his Watercolours continue to be a beauty editor’s classic and loved by professionals including Mary Greenwell, Lisa Eldridge, Pixiwoo and in 2015 his Watercolour crème rouge was awarded the ‘Best Blusher’ at the prestigious Conde Nast Brides Beauty Awards. 

Over the years, Daniel has worked Internationally on a number of shoots with high profile fashion photographers for top glossies, and with designers backstage at a number of major fashion shows as well as being a regular on national TV. Throughout his career he has beautified celebrities including: Naomi Campbell, Rachel Weisz, Kristen Scott Thomas and Kate Moss and continues to work with high profile clients and celebrities getting them ready for red carpet events, TV appearances, etc. 

Daniel says,   “I was one of the first makeup artists to bring out a self-titled range and I’m immensely proud of the brand.”

Adrian trained as a Makeup Artist in 1995. Entered into the film industry professionally in 1998. First major work on a feature was Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, in 2001 for Nick Dudman's Makeup FX and Creature dept. Continued to work for Nick on the subsequent Potter films with various freelance work in between and since. Including projects for Neill Gorton's Millennium Fx and also working for Mark Coulier's Coulier Creatures company on many various projects, including Merlin and World War Z.

Phil has been a make-up artist for the past 19 years and added Skin Camouflage work to his skillset after completing the British Association of Skin Camouflage Diploma in 2010.

Phil has worked extensively in television news occupying the role of Head of Make-up at ITN for 11 years. 

Two years ago Phil transferred to the world of freelancing to further explore the very rewarding side of Skin Camouflage work. He has helped hundreds of clients to face the world with improved confidence following one of his Skin Camouflage consultations.

He also finds that the skill of Skin Camouflage  influences his make-up techniques every day.'

Early years
Gustav Hoegen grew up in the Netherlands and then moved to England when he was 19 where there was a thriving film industry so that he could be part of it. He studied at the Bournemouth Art Institute in the Design Modelmaking course.^[3] After two years in college, he was offered an apprenticeship at Artem.

Career
Hoegen started his career as a model maker at a company called Artem. Today he is an animatronic designer and modeler for Pinewood Studios located near London, England.

Movie projects

Hoegen has done animatronic designs on the following movies: Prometheus, Clash of the Titans, The Nutcracker in 3D, Inkheart, Doctor Who, Isolation, The Brothers Grimm, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, This Little Life, A Shine of Rainbows, Doctor Who Confidential

Chris Clarke is an internationally renowned Animatronics Designer who has been a master of this incredibly complex, technical craft for two decades. His innumerable credits include ‘Munich’, ‘The Golden Compass’, ‘War Horse’, ‘Wrath Of The Titans’, ‘Harry Potter’ and more recently, ‘Star Wars Episode VII’. We’re delighted he will be appearing on the lecture theatre stage to give an insight into this highly specialized area of prosthetics.

Chris is a 27 year veteran of movie and television, and is planted firmly in the old school ‘self taught from childhood’ category, making his first animatronic aged 6, and proceeding to spend his childhood in the garage building creatures, models and optical printers. Considered by many of his peers to be a leading light in the Animatronic world he has worked on some 40 plus movies as well as a multitude of TV, advert and promo work through the years, supervising, department heading and on-the-bench building on many movies. Always willing to share his methods with anyone who asks his advice, he hopes to be able to add his insight to this specialist branch of makeup effects/creature work.

Stephen Murphy studied film at the Edinburgh College Of Art, and quickly made the transition from filmmaking to special effects make-up artist when he secured a work experience role with Nick Dudman on The Mummy. Nick quickly spotted Stephen’s talent, which resulted in a ten-year stint for him alongside the SFX veteran on the entire Harry Potter series.

He now has more than 30 major movies under his belt including Gladiator, Sweeney Todd, and more recently, Mandela - The Long Walk to Freedom. He also worked on The Iron Lady, for which prosthetics designer, Mark Coulier, picked up an Oscar for Best Make-up.

Branka came from a fine Art background into the world of Make-up Artistry. She trained at West Thames College in London in all aspects of Hair and Make-up. Branka currently works for a number of fashion designers creating key looks for their campaigns whilst exploring current trends in runway and print. Over the past few years Branka has delved into the world of body painting within the commercial field and fine art commissions. She is now recognised as one of London's most talented body painters, with an incredibly creative flair and endless boundaries to her imagination.Alongside Branka's Freelance work, she also teaches at West Thames herself, helping to build the next generation of Make-up Artists.

Kristyan Mallett has worked in the industry as a prosthetic make up artist for ten years and due to requests from Make up Designers and Production Designers, he decided to set up his own company Kristyan Mallett make up effects Ltd. The work has so far been obtained solely from word of mouth. Kristyan prides himself on the quality of work that his crew and himself achieve and it is through this reliable and consistent reputation the company gets further work.

Dr Beryl De Souza is a Plastic Surgeon in London with a background in research and science and holds an Honorary Clinical Lectureship post in Plastic Surgery at Imperial Medical School.  She holds a BSc in Biochemistry as a graduate of Chelsea College, University London.  This was followed by a MPhil in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, University of London.  This prompted her to study Medicine and she is a graduate of St. Bartholomew’s hospital, University London.

After working in Accident & Emergency she joined the Middlesex/University College Hospital surgical rotation going on to specialise in Plastic Surgery.  She has sat on the Opportunities in Surgery Committee at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is on the Medical Student Liaison committee.  Dr. De Souza joined the Medical Women’s Federation in 2005 and the important reason for her involvement in MWF is to try and facilitate a knowledge base and networking opportunity for women.

Dr. De Souza’s specialist interest is in scars and in particular keloid scars.

Mandi Martin runs the London branch of The Milton Agency agency in partnership with Daniella Milton who is the company founder and based in Los Angeles.

"The Milton Agency represents some of the very best make-up artists & hair stylists for film, television, commercials, press junkets and editorial. Specialising in Department Heads and Designers. Our award winning talent works for both studio level and independent movies worldwide. We have had the honour of working with some of the most celebrated people in the industry and it is our mission to continue delivering them key creative staff for hair and make-up. 

Between us we represent over 80 artists world wide.

Mandi has a background in Fashion Design & Production and Medicine, Homeopathy & Healing."

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Eva Elisabet von Bahr (born December 17, 1968) is a Swedish Make-up artist and hair stylist. She is best known for her works in Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), and A Man Called Ove (2015). She received her first Oscar nomination Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 88th Academy Awards

Love Larson is a Swedish Make-up artist and hair stylist. He is best known for his works in Skyfall (2012), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), and A Man Called Ove (2015). He received his first Oscar nomination Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 88th Academy Awards along with Eva von Bahr .

Richard Redlefsen decided when he was 29, to pursue a career in professional makeup. Having already had makeup experience while dancing, Redlefsen attended the Elegance Makeup School in Los Angeles, California, from which he graduated in 1997. After doing makeup work for revenues such as San Jose Opera and San Jose Repertory Theater, Redlefsen moved to Budapest, Hungary, in 1998, where he spent two years working as a makeup artist of makeup effects artist on various Hungarian films, commercials and music videos.

A few months after returning to the United States in 2000, Redlefsen returned to Los Angeles and began working in Hollywood. Since then, his talents have been utilized on such films as Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers II,Underworld, Saw, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and Resident Evil: Extinction. He has also worked on such television shows as NCIS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Everybody Hates Chris.

In addition to Star Trek, Redlefsen recently worked as a special effects makeup artist on two other major motion pictures for Paramount Pictures, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (featuring Alan Dale and Pavel Lychnikoff) and G.I. Joe (starring Rachel Nichols). His other recent film credits include The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009). Other credits are doing Jessica Alba`s beating makeups in The Killer Inside Me (2010),Grown Up (2010), Secretariat (2010), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), Oz:The Great and Powerful (2013) and Grown Ups 2 (2013). He worked on Russia`s largest budgeted film Stalingrad (2013) and Paraiso (2013) in Mexico City.

Over the years, Redlefsen has worked personally with such Star Trek guest stars as Lee Arenberg (on Pirates), James Avery (for the 2005 thriller Lethal Eviction), Diedrich Bader (on the 2004 horror movie Dead & Breakfast), Jonathan Banks (on the 2001 thriller Proximity), Tracy Middendorf (for the 2006 film El Cortez), Ron Perlman (for the 2002 action film Shakedown), Tony Todd (on the Dave Matthews Band music video for "Gravedigger"), Gabrielle Union (on the 2002 heist film Welcome to Collinwood), and Ray Wise (on Jeepers Creepers II).

Victoria Down is known for her work on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ( 2016), Fifty Shades of Grey ( 2015), Man of Steel (2013), Juno (2007) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Victoria broke into the movie business twenty-six years ago, and since then has gone on to become makeup department head on movies including Thir13en Ghosts, Elf, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Night at the Museum 1 and 2, Shooter, Juno, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. For more check out Victoria Down on IMDB

Lizzie was nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for her Make-up & Hair Design on Guardians of the Galaxy. Fully accomplished in Make-up, Prosthetics and Hair Design and application, Lizze has worked on movies, Thor: The Dark World, The Bourne Legacy, Dark Shadows, The Social Network, Notting Hill and many many more. A talented artist Lizzie states "My principles as a Make-up and Hair Designer are to produce historically correct and natural styling true to the characters and the period in which they live and breathe. I want the audience to feel as if they are part of the story and I do this by producing work that is strong, consistent and above all realistic." Lizzie also speaks fluent Greek and Italian.