Drawing to me is a mindset, an unfinished and perpetual building site. 

I want that the final result of my work is always light, no matter how difficult or sad are the themes or the feelings that lie behind it. I like to show different levels of interpretation and to think about my work like I was inventing Matrioska Dolls. 

I believe that intimacy, playfulness and delicacy are perfect to convey a powerful, inclusive and revolutionary communication. A multi-layered, quite oneiric style with some unpredictable juxtapositions it’s my approach. 

I believe that Sartre was absolutely right when he claimed that: “Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you”. 

Connections and links, especially if casual and unexpected, prevail on functions, relationships are the centre of anything: between humans, planets, different species or concepts, they define us. 
That’s why I like to research and understand how things intervene on each other, how links are made by human brain, how my cat paws make my paper dirty or how visitors can interact with my artworks and change them. As a consequence I like to work with other artists and musicians too. 

My most current work is focused on Seagrass, coping mechanism and osmotic limits. 

 

I was born in Italy and I am currently based in the United Kingdom.

After my scientific studies, I graduated in Byzantine Art History at the University of Milan and in Visual Art - Illustration at the European Institute of Design, Milan.

I have started my career as a multidisciplinary artist by collaborating with art spaces, galleries and museums since 2009.

I am a Member of the Society of Graphic and Fine Art - Drawing Society UK and now I am part of the Council.

My most recent exhibitions & projects include: Side by Side at No Format Gallery, London, Sudden Cardiac Art Exhibition at Kingshill House, Dursley (2024), The Sea and The Summer at Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, The Incorrigible Drawing ClÜb . 2 (2024), the annual exhibition of the Society of Graphic and Fine Art at Mall Galleries, London (2021- 24), Il vento soffia la sua armonica (che voglia di piangere ho!), Villa Kupfer, Palazzolo sull'Oglio (2023), Drawing is Free – 10th Year Exhibition, College of Art, Paris (2023), SFSA Drawing Open at No Format Gallery, (2023 - 24), Wales Contemporary | Cymru Gyfoes (2023), Open Exhibition of the Royal Cambrian Academy and at Leicester Museum 2023, Telling Tales @Platforms Project (2022), Athens, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2021/2022), and the Viva la Vulva at Six Gallery, Milan (2020). 

During Autumn 2024 I have been artist in residence at Mawddach Residency to study seagrass and natural osmotic limits. In 2022 I was one of the artists in residence at Nicky Ginsberg’s artistic residency NG Creative Residency in France. 

In 2020, I joined CAST (Connecting Artists’ Stories Together), an international artist network.

For the Academic Year 2024/2025 I will be artist in residence at Nottingham Trent University School of Art and Design for the AA2A program.

Drawing is my forma mentis to interpret the world, it is the Cœur of my life. 

My artistic practice is pivoted on relationships and connections, conceptually and practically, declined in different fields. The main themes I explore are: seagrass, the formation of memories, also impressed in spaces and objects; folklore, devotional art and anthropology; the perception of gender-related violence; vulnerability and death. 

History of art, science, music and literature are crucial sources of inspiration too. I love suspended atmospheres, where well established concepts can be explored freely, often through non-obvious associations.

In order to improve and to empower my research it is vital to me to collaborate with other people, with visual artists and musicians too, like making live paintings during concerts or building interactive installations: open conversations are central in my practice. 

I am focusing my research on painting and drawing on fabric. I usually prefer pencils and graphite, but also ink and penbrush, natural pigments and kitchen ingredients make my drawings appear. I enjoy printing (drypoint, monotype and lithography on foil) and sawing/mending too. For my installations I preferably use sustainable and biodegradable materials like paper, wood, natural fabric, threads, music, and, sometimes, living organisms too. 

Over the last few years, I have enthusiastically devoted an increasing amount of time to the study and observation of coping mechanisms, seagrass, houses and nature. I am devoting an increasing amount of time to workshops and lectures too. 

I write for the cultural magazine Deep Hinterland. I have my column called “Citofonare Piano Nobile” where I write mainly about art, contemporary or not. 

I also work as a freelance illustrator.