Alex Box
Dr Alex Box is an internationally renowned make-up artist who has refined the role of creativity in identity, through beauty and makeup.
Box originally studied fine art, at London’s Chelsea college of Art and Design, before moving her focus into fashion makeup. Her background in art distinguished her from other makeup artists, and her innovative and multidimensional approaches have established her as a creator of a new virtual langage, existing only between body, movement, artistic expression and scientific inquiry.
Her work has named her as a pioneer of beauty futurism, earning her an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts award, from the Solent University, in 2011.
Box is one of the industry’s current most creative artists, best known for her surreal and dramatic looks, created by pushing boundaries and evolving the beauty scene, with her unique exploration into human identity and futurism.
Alex is best known for her position as creative director for Illumasqua, a title that she held for seven years (2008 – 2015). However, she has worked as a key artist with many stars across the industry including;
Designers – Issey Miyake, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Gareth Pugh and Vivienne Westwood,
Photographers – Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Rankin, and Solve Sundsbo,
Musicians – Lady GaGa, Frank Ocean, Michael Stripe and Robert smith,
Choreographers – Wayne McGregor and Akram Khan,
Tech developers – Google, Microsoft and Samsung.
Alex has also hosted a TED talk, where she questions how and why we create content, challenges the social media culture, and encourages viewers to move beyond their ‘prescribed culture’ and explore a much stronger self belief and expression. Furthemore she has collaborated with Rankin on a book, has worked on fashion weeks around the world, and is currently the founding editor of Art and Fashion magazine, King Kong.
Rae Morris
World renowned Make-up artist, best selling author, and creator of the world’s first magnetic makeup brush range – Rae Morris – began her makeup career in a very unique way.
Born in Australia, Rae trained as a hairdresser from age seventeen, and was running her own shop by nineteen. In her very unique tale, Rae’s hair journey took her to the Model of the world pageant, working as a hair stylist for one of the contestants. After hearing commotion, Rae looked across the room to see a judge, Naiomi Campbell’s makeup artist leaving the room, after a fall out over Naiomi’s lips. Naomi caught Rae’s gaze and called upon Rae to “fix her lips.” Soon, the paparazzi were snapping pictures of Rae that were released into the tabloids, and before she knew it, Rae was thrown full force into the Make-up industry.
Upon her return home, Rae sought out Richard Jarah (the most creative Make-up artist of the time, and David Bowie’s personal MUA) to provide her with intense training, allowing her to gain key knowledge and perfect her skill. Before long, Rae was working with Magazines – Vogue, ID, Harper’s Bazaar and Marie-Claire, and Celebrities – PINK, Cate Blanchett, Jessica Biel, Kylie Minogue, Kelly Roland, Hugh Jackman, Miranda Kerr and Cathrine McNiell.
Furthermore, Rae was the longest serving Global makeup director for L’Oreal Paris (2003-2013), and won Australian Make-up artist of the year – four times !, and is the author of multiple best selling books – at her surprise, as she is dyslexic.
Rae also created the first line of magnetic makeup brushes, after being inspired by her makeup clients. Rae had a set of brushes custom made for her use on clients, however began to receive huge amounts of compliments, and many people showed interest in her brushes, and where/how to get them. This inspired Rae to launch her own line of brushes, for the use of hair and makeup artists around the world.
Nick Dudman
Nick Dudman is a British make-up artist, specializing in makeup effects and creature design for motion pictures.
Starting his journey as a trainee to Stewart Freeborn, working on Yoda for Empire Strikes Back, Nick trained hard to become one of the most recognized names in his field. After apprenticing for four years, working on projects such as SuperMan 2, and Top Secret!, Nick was trusted to create Tim Currys ‘Darkness’ look, in Ridley Scott’s Legend.
In 1995, Dudman had his first introduction to animatronics and large scale creature effects, when working on The Fifth Element. Since then, Nick has worked on huge projects such as Star Wars, The Mummy, Batman, the Harry Potter Series, Paddington, Penny Dreadful, The Wheel of Time and Carnival Row.
His extraordinarily hard work across a huge amount of large scale projects have earned him many amwards, including ;
Nominations for BAFTA awards for six of the eight Harry Potter films (winning five), two BAFTA craft award nominations for best makeup for Penny Dreadful (winning one), Three Emmy nominations for Penny dreadful, Two Hollywood Guild of make-up artist and hairdressers nominations for Penny Dreadful, nominations for and Academy awards, and an Oscar. Furthermore, in 2013 Nick was awarded an Honorary fellowship from the Arts University, Bournemouth, and in 2022 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of Bolton.
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