Statement

Bio

Lives and works in London (UK)

Graduates in Fashion Studies at University of Bologna (Italy) in 2008.

After several years in the fashion industry, he attends the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, with an Erasmus Exchange Programme as MA Fine Art student at Bath Spa University in 2019-2020.

Exhibitions:

Figuratively Speaking 2 (group show curated by Arika Von Edler), Maximilian Wolfgang Gallery, London, 9th November - 14th December 2024
It's A Lot Like Life (two-person show with Alice Mendelowitz), Morley Gallery, London, 12th - 26th September 2024
I Dropped My Eye Into The Sea (group show curated by Lena Brazin), ASC Project Space, London, 19th - 30th April 2024
Familiar: Unfamiliar (two-person show with Alice Mendelowitz), Barry Till Gallery, London, 11th - 30th April 2024
F.O.M.O. (two-person show with Mark Burch), Roper Gallery, Bath Spa, 30th June - 10th July 2022
Group show curated by Kaoru Jacques, Beppu City Museum of Art, 1 st - 13th March 2022, and Beppu City Hall, Beppu (JA), 24th March - 15th April 2022
Fall Again (group show curated by Chloe Arnoldi and Hannah Coton), Bocabar Paintworks, Bristol, 28th September - 28th November 2021
Of Echoes and Fragments (group show curated by Katie Ackrill), The Pound Arts Centre, Corsham, 17th May - 12th June 2021
Untitled 2020 (online group show curated by Poppy Clover), mastersatbathspa.com, 25th September 2020
Art Night (group show), Academy of Fine Art of Venice, 23rd June 2018

Artistic intent

My painting practice is informed by the struggle to find a safe place for identity and community - and the inevitable escapism that follows: through places of virtual and physical refuge, in the glory of the past, and in the realm of fantasy.

I'm particularly concerned with the ambiguous reality of being queer in the age of neoliberalism.

I work in short series. I am fascinated by the stories no one has time to listen to: stories connecting personal experience and history, but left in the margins of the collective memory. In this sense, photography acts as an extension of memory, and I use both archival material and my own photos to draw hidden narratives for the stories in my paintings.

Colour and composition challenge me constantly in negotiating the tension between what is said and what is left behind, as well as what is real and bodily and what is immaterial and suggested. I like to work around these boundaries, and to test their overlap.