Gabriella Thorpe CV

Details:

London
07760352823

Gabriella.thorpe@yahoo.co.uk        

Date of birth: 6/7/83

Nationality: British

Profile: A motivated, charismatic and driven starter in make-up.  Open to all work experience and any opportunities to improve and prove myself as a valuable asset within the industry.  Effective team player, enthusiastic and organised.    A Background of Business to Business Sales and Customer Service with exceptional people skills.  

Training:        Greasepaint – May – August ‘08

                    Theatre, film, TV, prosthetics - 14 week course.

                   Pictures available on request.

Work Experience:
>20/12/08

Hair stylist. Fashion show at St Georges Hospital, Tooting.

>18/12/08

Assisting Adam De Cruise (make-up artist x factor) on Grazia Spring collection Photo shoot.

>25/10/08

Assisting on television show The X Factor to Faye Sawyer (celebrity stylist).  Jobs including assisting the stylists, dressing contestants, prepping clothes, organising and dressing extras. I.e. Dancers, choir/musicians.                      

>16/09/08 – 23/09/08

Assistant to Beauty Editor, Sophie Beresiner, LOOK magazine.

Including photo shoots.

>16/06/08-28/06/08                    

Questors Theatre – Ealing.  Production – Charlie’s Aunt.

Make-up artist to main characters for the duration of the production.

Runner assisting on the filming of a television commercial for Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.

Extra work - Including TV commercials and modelling for Storm Model Agency.

Previous Jobs:
-       31/10/09
Make up artist for Halloween Designer Party at Bungalow 8

-       29/10/09
Make-up artist at Specsavers Fashion Show at the V&A.

-        24/2/09

Assistant to Eve Collins (stylist) for The Soap Awards photo shoot for a series of newspapers and TV magazines.

-        12/2/09 (ongoing)

Make up artist Image 1^st studios, Farringdon London

-        9/1/09

Make-up artist as Romance B Photography Studios, North London.

-        26/11/08

Stylist to Same Difference, breakfast television appearance.

-        12/11/08

Assistant to Eve Collins (stylist) for BBC Photo shoot for a series of newspapers and magazines for the Christmas story line of Eastenders.

Jobs including buying clothes from a brief, prepping the clothes, dressing the actors and altering any outfits.

-        01/10/08       19/11/08                 LOOK Magazine

Junior Freelance Beauty Assistant to Beauty Editor. 

Organising and assisting photo shoots, communicating with PR companies for writing credits in the magazine and requesting call-ins.  Also writing features and compiling them including the still images to accompany the words.

-        01/07-07/07            Yell Ltd

Growth and renewal field sales consultant

Concentrating on new business typically, including regeneration of first year renewals to include new media products.

-        10/2005-01/07         The Phonebook, BT

Sales Consultant -    New Business Field Sales

-        2002 Headmasters                    

Receptionist and trainee hairdresser

Education:

1995-1998     St Teresas Dorking, Surrey – 12 GCSE’s A-C grades

1998-2000 Godalming College, Surrey – A Levels; Media Studies, Drama

Interests:      Film, Theatre, Music, Swimming, Travel

General Information:

Clean driving License

Full UK Passport

Mobile to travel

Basic German language