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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- February 9, 2021
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- December 24, 2020
Dispensary Gallery
“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
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- May 7, 2020
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- January 19, 2020
Museum Spirituality IV
‘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
‘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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- 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
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
- 'Switch Supposing' China Ink, Varnish and Glass Colours on paper
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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- November 13, 2017
11.11. San Martino Day, Armistice Day
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”
“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
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
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- November 26, 2016
Post-truth & the Whatnot, My new studio for 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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- June 29, 2015
Studio in Venezia, Malamocco
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
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
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
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- January 14, 2015
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- January 9, 2015
Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa
Silk Screen Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa Silver Lustre on Black Paper
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- January 8, 2015
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- January 8, 2015
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- December 19, 2014
Don Error and Miss Takes
Artist’s Book Triennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
Diary
- Fresh Flowers and Hair
- Dispensary Gallery
- Unwrite
- Unwrite
- 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
- Don Error and Miss Takes