Category Archives: In the News

WHEN I SPOKE WITH SIR BEN KINGSLEY

By Sophie Ward | January 29th, 2012
Last year I interviewed Sir Ben Kingsley for the latest Corduroy magazine just as he’d finished work on The Invention of Hugo Cabret with Martin Scorsese. I saw Hugo on Boxing Day and enjoyed seeing Kingsley’s character in action. He plays Georges Méliès, a legendary filmmaker and visionary who created worlds from the fiber of the [...]
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SYNESTHETES

By Sophie Ward | January 23rd, 2012
This Christmas I worked with Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin on the special text for their exclusive perfume gift. Inez and Vinoodh are two of the most prolific photographers working today, and a dynamic duo who also created a son together. I met them at their son’s birthday party last year, and boom – [...]
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RITES OF CROWNING

By Sophie Ward | January 13th, 2012
The caffeine from the drip coffee that my husband brought to me is coursing through the vessels of my brain as I sit here at a glass desk in San Francisco collecting my thoughts after breakfast by a sapphire pool. I have come through a membrane, through some veil of time and space, and I [...]
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LOVE STORY

By Sophie Ward | December 12th, 2011
Going to the chapel and we’re gonna get married… This appeared in newspapers all over Australia. I thought I’d share it with you, in case you hadn’t heard the news. It’s extraordinarily exciting and I can’t quite process it all yet with words, so we’ll have to wait until the dust settles to read more [...]
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“THE SOURCE” RELEASED

By Sophie Ward | July 17th, 2011
In recent collaboration with FLY16x9, I wrote a piece titled ‘Egyptian Cloth Bandages’ and re-released the video poem I created with Sebastian Mader last year. We are so happy with the evolution of the possibilities of spoken word! It’s great to explore the impact of words beyond printed matter. I am so grateful to have [...]
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“REASONS FOR WAKING UP IN THE MORNING”

By Sophie Ward | June 10th, 2011
“I wasn’t always awake. I once had a burning desire to shadow Diana Vreeland, Willy Wonka, people who were sharp and electric. I endured bouts of insomnia as a teenager, and even during childhood would remain with eyes open on the top bunk, waiting for my sister to move in her sleep, so that I [...]
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BOOKS, BOURBON AND BISCUITS

By Sophie Ward | May 31st, 2011
I am currently in New York City, but had to share my enthusiasm for Lexington, Kentucky and the experiences I’ve just had during my recent trip yonder to hand-bind my books. I am fit to burst, and believe I could write an entire book on the subject of my traveling companion, Haans Nicholas Mott, printer [...]
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