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  • February 9, 2021

Fresh Flowers and Hair

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During this last lockdown I have been drawing imaginary flowers made out of hair. Originally I wanted to draw some fresh flowers I had gatheredContinue Reading…

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  • elena
  • December 24, 2020

Dispensary Gallery

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  “This is the next instalment of the Dispensary Gallery lockdown digital exhibitions. We interviewed Elena Cecchinato as part of our proposal to offer insightContinue Reading…

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  • May 7, 2020

Unwrite

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  • May 7, 2020

Unwrite

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  • elena
  • January 19, 2020

Museum Spirituality IV

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‘Museum Spirituality’ is a on going series of in-glazed fine bone china plates and vessels. Serving plates and vessels are used as passage and conduits betweenContinue Reading…

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  • November 3, 2019

Museum Spirituality series III

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‘Museum Spirituality’ is a on going series of in-glazed fine bone china plates and vessels. Serving plates and vessels are used as passage and conduits betweenContinue Reading…

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  • elena
  • September 1, 2019

Rivers of Change

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Artists Residency @ Olho do Boi, Cacilhas, Lisbon, Portugal   In March I participated to an artists’ residency at Olho do Boi, by the RiverContinue Reading…

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  • April 5, 2019

Roses and Teeth

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These plates are part of a series titled ‘Roses and Teeth’ I made for the kitchen of The Archive of Modern Conflict in London. EachContinue Reading…

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  • March 18, 2018

‘Switch Supposing’ in an Urban Show, Art For All

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Switch Supposing is a script and a painted image in poster-size format. London Loop Gallery, Multiple Locations: Shaftesbury Avenue, Hyde Park, Kings Cross, Euston Road, Finsbury Square, GreatContinue Reading…

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  • elena
  • November 13, 2017

11.11. San Martino Day, Armistice Day

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11.11. Today my people are celebrating San Martino, the Saint Patron and Protector of my Home-town Piove di Sacco, in big numbers. I remember paintingContinue Reading…

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  • October 20, 2017

“Reveries, Soul’s Sounds, Memories, Action”

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“Reveries, Soul’s Sounds, Memories, Action” water, acrylics, natural pigments, gold, silver, copper leaves on rice paper. Ongoing series 2016/17   Over the course of lastContinue Reading…

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  • August 13, 2017

Sound, Water and Paint Recordings on Paper

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This week I have been collaborating with music composer Timothy Ellis. We have been experimenting with painting, water and sound waves, vibrations and feelings, atmospheres,Continue Reading…

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  • July 14, 2017

Buone Vacanze! Restoring Narratives..

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Summer 2017, in the city ! Escape Explore Explode *

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  • November 26, 2016

Post-truth & the Whatnot, My new studio for 2017

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Here is my new Studio in London 2016/17. I’m re-working on the abstract Paintings on Water I did in the summer at Studio16 adding layers of silver andContinue Reading…

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  • November 7, 2016

Daily Cosmologies, Automatic Writing

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Sporadically yet periodically and consistently I have been practicing automatic writings which have taken the form of synthetic and meaningfully liminal ‘Drawings by Words’.  TheseContinue Reading…

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  • July 9, 2016

Lacrimae Rerum V

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This is a preparatory drawing for the decoration of Porcelain Tears Bottles, part of a ceramic installation commissioned by the Rothschild Bank. Lacrimae Rerum V (latin forContinue Reading…

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  • June 19, 2016

Painting on Water

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I always collected sheets of old marble paper from diverse parts of the world. Marble paper has this etheral quality of timeless organic abstraction. I startedContinue Reading…

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  • February 2, 2016

Mould Making and Slip Casting of a Diesel Jerry Can

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I wanted to recreate the iconic “Jerry Can” symbol of the indestructible fuel container used in some of the harshest condition of war into theContinue Reading…

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  • November 11, 2015

Innovations In Ceramic Art, Cambridge

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Here is my collaboration with Wendy Cambell-Briggs called Lacrimae Rereum IV. Working with Wendy is always a joy, she is an endless inspiration, never afraid to experimentContinue Reading…

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  • September 25, 2015

Realms and Bridges @ Cowgill, Dentdale

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Sketches, Dentdale, Yorkshire, 2015   I collected lost human hair and dust and sheep’s fleece trapped in the fence wires across vast grazing fields orContinue Reading…

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  • August 3, 2015

Ceramic Openstudio @ Sally Larke Coach House

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  • June 29, 2015

Studio in Venezia, Malamocco

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Here is my temporary studio in Malamocco, Venezia. I have been making sketches for the Politics of hair and decay and regeneration project and withContinue Reading…

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  • May 2, 2015

In Lagos, researching Politics of Hair and Identity

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  I have spent the last two weeks in Lagos, Nigeria, researching the politics of hair and Identity and made some  compositions with improvised notesContinue Reading…

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  • May 2, 2015

A Collaboration in ceramic with artist Wendy Campbell-Briggs

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Over the last month I collaborated with the amazing Wendy Campbell-Briggs. We were invited, together with other Studio16 members, by The Royal Pump Rooms LeamingtonContinue Reading…

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  • March 31, 2015

Studio @ Cowgill, Dentdale, Yorkshire

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Searching Chimeras because…  

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  • January 14, 2015

Studio 16, Warwick

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@ Studio 16, Warwick

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  • January 9, 2015

Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa

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Silk Screen Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa Silver Lustre on Black Paper

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  • January 8, 2015

EC Studio, Shepherd’s Bush Market, London

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EC Studio @ Shepherd’s Bush Market Lime Grove

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  • January 8, 2015

Studio @ Iron Yard, Warwick

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Studio @ Iron Yard, Warwick

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  • December 19, 2014

Don Error and Miss Takes

Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania

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  • Museum Spirituality IV
  • Museum Spirituality series III
  • Rivers of Change
  • Roses and Teeth
  • ‘Switch Supposing’ in an Urban Show, Art For All
  • 11.11. San Martino Day, Armistice Day
  • “Reveries, Soul’s Sounds, Memories, Action”
  • Sound, Water and Paint Recordings on Paper
  • Buone Vacanze! Restoring Narratives..
  • Post-truth & the Whatnot, My new studio for 2017
  • Daily Cosmologies, Automatic Writing
  • Lacrimae Rerum V
  • Painting on Water
  • Mould Making and Slip Casting of a Diesel Jerry Can
  • Innovations In Ceramic Art, Cambridge
  • Realms and Bridges @ Cowgill, Dentdale
  • Ceramic Openstudio @ Sally Larke Coach House
  • Studio in Venezia, Malamocco
  • In Lagos, researching Politics of Hair and Identity
  • A Collaboration in ceramic with artist Wendy Campbell-Briggs
  • Studio @ Cowgill, Dentdale, Yorkshire
  • Studio 16, Warwick
  • Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa
  • EC Studio, Shepherd’s Bush Market, London
  • Studio @ Iron Yard, Warwick
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