Stratford Guild Talk - Wednesday 11 March - A Costume Design Journey

The Guild will be retiurning to a normal timing of a Wednesday evening at 7.30 pm for the 11 March talk Script to Screen: A Costume Design Journey by Val Greathead.

The speaker will explore her costume design work in the context of 1980s television production and her subsequent creative journey.

Aspects of the design process from initial idea to finished costume are covered and she looks at the skills needed then and now to work in this creative field.

She considers the challenges faced by the designer in the days before mobile phones, the internet and next day delivery and asks how these challenges are different from those experienced today. 

Val worked as a costume designer in television for fifteen years before going on the lead the development of the first-degree course in the UK to specialise in costume design for the screen. Subsequently she became Associate Dean and Head of the School of Performance at the Arts University, Bournemouth.

These days she is a volunteer at both Salisbury Museum and Salisbury Cathedral and a carer for her husband who has Alzheimer’s.

Val will be bringing a few sketchbooks with her for us to look at.