Artist Statement & CV

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am an Italian lens-based artist (b. 1993) living in London. I graduated with Distinction in the Photography MA at the Royal College of Art (2019) after studying for a BA in Fine Arts at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts (2016). My practice focuses on the relationship between images and marks, seen as both carriers of memories. 

Marks are represented in my work physically and abstractly to examine their connection to memories and deconstruct how these memories take form as images in art. As an artist, I am interested in exploring traumatic experiences, the taboos surrounding them, and how the inability to talk about feelings and past events ‘wounds us’ with a mark that is impossible to hide and heal completely. 

My body of work revolves around photography and moving images, emphasising darkroom-based processes. The tactile element of my handprints and celluloid films is central. I am prompted by experiments and mistakes that occur, allowing light leaks and scratches to guide my work. My first series, 'Leaving a Mark,' showcases an example of this

Selected for the SW Darkroom Residency Award, The Labyrinth Lab / RCA Award 2019 and the London Creative Network in 2020. Her work has been shown in Italy, England, America, and Czech Republic.

EDUCATION

2017/2019 Royal College of Art, MA Photography. Dissertation-Distinction

2015-2016 Erasmus + at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague

2012-2016  BA with Honours in Fine Arts, Accademia di Belle Arti in Firenze.

2017 Photographic Workshop with the Italian photo reporter: Francesco Cito.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

October 2023 MELT, Hypha Studios and Creative Land Trust as part of Frieze, Euston Tower; January 2023 HAB Art Fair, HAVE A BUTCHERS 65 Dalston Lane (UK); March 2023 Behold, a sensorial group exhibition in Conduit Street (UK); January 2023 Marking Time, Conduit Street, London; 2022 ART SUPPORT PLEDGE EXHIBITION, Hastings Contemporary (UK); 2022 CAMERA WORK OFF Festival, (IT); 18/21-01-2021 Lift-Off, Film Festival, Organised by Pinewood Studio; 07/29-02-2020 Visual Storytelling, The Southwest collective in collaboration with Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius St, Devon (UK); 19/23- 02-2020 Cluster Photography and Prints, Ugly Duck, London SE13 LP; 07-12-2019/01-2020 Living Image, The Halide Project, Philadelphia PA. The Halide / 26- Project’s fourth annual juried showcase of contemporary analogue photography;28-06/07-2019 RCA Degree Show, Photography Department, London, 1 HESTER RD,   RCA DYSON BUILDING Battersea;

PUBLICATIONS

17-10-20  Generazioni photographic book presented in Museo del Territorio in Cormòns (GO), Italy, as part of the Trieste PhotoDays festival.

02-06-20     DezeenonlineMagazine_ Freyja's Sewell work photography by Sara Marinangeli   Link here

09-07-2019   Vogue Italia, website Photography 2019

05/2019   VogueCS Magazine, assistant photographer for  Mojmir Bures