Statement
A UK based artist and curator with teaching experience and a parallel interest in writing, cinema and theatre. My practice looks at two aspects of narrative: How visual media, text and art convey memory, history and the passage of time. What is the English narrative and how do I (an Italian by birth) relate to it. When looking at narrative, I am interested in the relation between everyday 'reality' and artistic or creative traditions and culture. How fiction is constructed, narrative is structured and how this can be played with are the starting points from which I begin. The work I make has elements of satire and existentialism, and will take a variety of forms including two dimensional, sculpture, object making, art-books and installation projects. I actively participate with other artists, in one-off projects and exhibitions. Contemporary British Drawing Performance Cities POST Artists AMBruno Island Projects (2009 to 2011) |
Education
2006-2008 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design; MA Fine Art (Distinction) 2005-2006 Kensington & Chelsea College; City & Guilds Delivering Learning (FE) 2000-2005 Chelsea College of Art and Design; BA Fine Art, Theory and Practice 1996-97 Chartered Institute of Marketing; Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing 1987-91 University of Surrey; BEng (Hons.) Degree in Mechanical Engineering Exhibitions 2019 Contemporary British Painting, Norwich Cathedral Painting the In-Between, The Bowery, Leeds Contemporary British Painting, Yantai Gallery of Art, China 2018 New Painting, Contemporary British Painting, The Crypt, Marylebone, London Her Soul's Bright Armour, Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, Kent (solo exhibition) 2017 Two Places at Once, Art Licks Weekend, London Contemporary Masters from Britain, touring exhibition Yantai Art Museum (Yantai), Artall Gallery & Jangsu Art Gallery (Nanjing), Tianjin Academy of Fine Art (Tianjin), China Tescard P, The Crypt, London 2016 Parables Displaced, Whitstable Biennale Satellite 2015 Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, China Counter Plymouth, KARST, Plymouth 365 Drawing, Galerie Anieres, Switzerland Book Acts, Arnolfini, Bristol Object, The Tetley, Leeds 2014 Berliner Liste, Postbanhof, Berlin Friedichshain The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London 365 Drawings, Brock Keep, Reading Liverpool Artist's Book Fair, Central Library, Liverpool Information Point as part of Unasked-for-Public-Art Agency at Canalology, Markfield Park/Lea Valley Canal, London PAGES Leeds, The Tetley, Leeds 2013 Cascades, Studio 180, London The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London BALTIC Artist's Book Fair, Gateshead Bristol Art Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair, University of Leeds Publish And Be Damned, ICA, London Do You Remember it – or weren’t you there? London Gallery West 2012 Surfaces, Sput+Nik Gallery (group show) Porto, Portugal At Play 2012, New Ashgate Gallery (group show), Surrey, UK Remarkable and Curious Conversations (group show), London Public Art Proposals, Construction Gallery, London 2011 Print & Design Now!, (group show) Bearspace at SW1 Gallery, London Bristol Art Book Event, Arnolfini Gallery 2010 From the Dustheaps, (group show) Dickens Museum, London London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London Harsh Lines and Spongy Surfaces, (group show) Hackney Wicked Art Festival, London Permutations & Perambulations, (group show) Dickens Museum, London PrintNow2, Bearspace, (group show), London PrintNow, Bearspace at the London Art Fair, (group show), London. 2009 O, NY Art Book Fair (group show) Sounds & Screen, The Lounge, London (solo show) At Play 1, South Hill Park, Berkshire (group show) Between Gallery and Bookshop, IMT, London (group show) 2008 Liverpool Independent Biennale, Wolstenholme Projects (group show) Manchester Artist Book Fair, Manchester School of Art (group show) Wrapped And Encased, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool (group show) This Constant Cracking of the Surface, Bargehouse, London (group show) 2007 DIY, Nolias Gallery, London (group show) 2006 Word, Window Gallery, London (solo show) Group Show; BAR, London (group show) Identikit; TemporaryContemporary, London (group show) 2005 Stages; Putney Arts Centre, London (solo show) Odyssey; Bluebell Railway, East Grinstead (group/curated show) Event, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Milbank (group show) 2004 Figures, Lauderdale House, Archway (group show) Terror; Beaconsfield gallery, Battersea (group show) Stop!; Chelsea (group show) Apostles, Italian Cultural Institute; London (solo show) May 2003 Other Projects May 2018 Residency, Artist Village, Xi'an, China October 2017-January 2018 Curator Testcard P The Crypt, London July-September 2017 Curator Drawing into Landscape The Crypt, London June 2017 Chaired POST Artists Open Meeting Antiuniversity, London July - August 2016 Co-curator Contemporary Chinese Works on Paper Various locations, UK June 2016 Curator Parables Displaced Whitstable Biennale Satellite December 2015 Co-curator Contemporary British Drawing, Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, China. April 2015 - onwards Chair POST Artists. May 2014 Co-Producer and Health & Safety Officer for Canalology (POST Artists) Apr '11 – Apr 2012 Secretary for POST Artists. Sep-Oct 2010 Co-curating From the Dustheaps, Dickens Museum, London* August 2010 Co-curating Harsh Lines and Spongy Surfaces, Hackney Wicked Art Festival, London* Apr-May 2010 Co-curating Reveal, Dickens Museum, London* Aug 2009-Present Co-curator in Island Projects (* above) Aug '09-June 2012 Curating The Lounge at Euston, London. January 2007 Curating & publishing Beating Time (artist book collaboration) Teaching Experience December 2015 Guest teacher Xi'an Academy of Fine Art, Xi'an, China Sep-Nov 2004 ‘Shrinking Childhoods’ project, Kids Company/Tate Modern May-June 2004 ACE – Visiting Art Tutor in South London schools Dec 2005-June 2006 College of North East London; Visiting Art Tutor Writing May 2014 Co-script development Information Point; Unasked-for-Public Art Agency at Canalology, London. April 2013- July 2014 Co-script development pre-BARD // post-SHARD, Performance Cities at Rich-Mix (February 2014) & Somerset House (June 2014), London. June 2012 - January 2013 Editing and Publishing Keeping French Time, a novel by J F Madell, Normandy Publishing, London. June 2012 Shortlisted Bulbul 2012; Sandpit Arts, Brighton. |