Arianna
Ghezzi
Arianna Ghezzi was lucky to study Architecture in Italy and spend her childhood in one of the most beautiful city in Italy, Turin, surrounded by magnificent Baroque architecture and some masterpieces of the Italian modern architecture.
However, she found herself being intrigued and fascinating not only from the Architecture of those grandiose buildings, but from one element which allowed her to perceive the building: the lighting.
Her hunger for lighting knowledge was not satisfied till she moved to London and started her career as Lighting Designer, where she had the great opportunity to work at MBLD on Hospitality projects and be inspired by the never sleeping creativity which London lighting industry is great for.
At LDI, her current workplace, she focuses on introducing in the lighting scheme some elements of magic, which would inspire the spectator, which would allow other people to live the dream she is living.
The passion for lighting is not the only one, as Arianna is also a yoga teacher trainee, and an enthusiastic traveller around the world whenever possible.
Why Did You Want To Be A Silhouette Awards Mentor?
I have been working in medium to big consultancy offices and the most rewarding part of my job has always been transmitting my passion and growing knowledge to new and younger lighting designers joining the team.
Even if I don’t have 20+ years of experience myself I believe this could be considered as an advantage as those struggles and difficulties we all experienced at the beginning of our career are in fact not a distant memory at all. I also had great opportunities such lecturing at University and this was such rewarding experience, passing my experience into new passionate students who might decide to join the lighting industry in the future. I love listening to the junior ideas and see all the brilliant ideas thy bring to the table: that passion also needs some guidance but more importantly a solid and consistent reminder to not give up our creativity even if when projects gets difficult, as we have all been there.