Pina Santoro

Artist Statement

RESIDENCES                                             

Sept 2015 –  Oct 2017                    Mezzo Giorno Food Residency,  ICA Peterborough 

August 2016                                  Cyprus residency, North Cyprus

March  2016                                   Sicily Residency,  Misteri Festival Trapani 

Nove  2015                                     Rosary Residency,  ICA Peterborough 

Oct 2015                                         Four Corners Residency,  Urban Engine Room 

Sept 2010                                       Garden Residency, Trapani, Sicily 

August 2010                                   Porthmeour Studio Sailors Loft  Cornwall  

July  2009                                       No 8. Beach Hut Residency  Southwold Suffolk 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

Sept 2016                                       IDDA/IDDU Performance Italian Festival P’Boro  

Dec 2016                                        Ceramic Surface Design, Central St. Martins                                                    

April – May 2016                            Sedia Fuori Sculpture – ICA Peterborough 

August 2015                                  Grapevine Project,   Arts Festival Peterborough 

Sept  2015                                      Grapevine Project,  Italian Festival Peterborough  

May – July 2015                              ICAP SCULPTURE TOUR  Arts Council England 

1st May – 1st June                         Town Hall  Peterborough

1st June – 1st July                         Key Theatre  Peterborough

1st July – 1st August                     ICA – Italian Community Association Peterborough  

Feb 2014                                         SURI SURI  City Gallery Peterborough 

January 2014                                 UNSPOKEN Yarrow Gallery Oundle 

Sept 11 – 13                                    City College Tutor in Sculpture & Illustration

 
COMMISSIONED WORKS

April – May 2017                            Moving Dreamers Stage Set – Spare Tyre

2016 – 2017                                    Our Stories Project, Vivacity Schools Workshops  

Sept  2015                                     Traditional Couscous Pots – COOK BOOK 

Jan  2013                                       Sculpture Workshops – William Law School 

May – Nov 2013                             Saturday Art School Project – Vivacity City Gallery 

September 2013                            NHS Painting Commission –  City Hospital 

Feb 2012                                        Sculpture Workshops – Leighton School 

June 2010                                      Sculpture Workshops, Arts And Minds Cavel Centre  

October 2009                                 Folksworth School – Collaborative Painting Project 

Feb – May 2009                              FLAMAS Sculpture Project – I-lid Design  

Jan – April 2008                             Folksworth Players – Painting Commission 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Sept  2015-2017                           Mezzo Giorno Food ART ON A PLATE – ICAP / Vivacity     

Sept 2016                                     IDDA/IDDU Performance – Peterborough Presents 

July 2016                                      ICAP Cultural Summer Workshops – ICA Fleet

Oct 2016                                       SPAN Fun Palace – Peterborough Central Library 

May 2016                                      PDFAS Sculpture Workshops – Youth Arts CO

Jan 2016                                       BEFANA Cultural Workshops – ICA P’Boro

Dec 2015                                      Sculpture Workshops – City Gallery Peterborough 

July 2014-15                                 ICAP Italian Community Arts Project – ACE                                                        

Sept 2013                                     Folkestone Trenniale Research Grant, METAL 

August 2013                                 Sculpture Workshops Gladstone – John Clare Cottage  

August 2012                                 Sculpture Workshops  Parnwell – John Clare Cottage 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

May 2018                           Take me there - Heong Gallery Cambridge 

April 2017                                   Nasty Women – Cambridge Art Works 

April 2017                                   Sustainability Art Prize – Ruskin Gallery Cambridge 

2-11 Dec 2016                             Immigrant Woman SPAN –  Cambridge Art Salon 

4 Dec 2016                                  CAMBRAIN Sewlyn College Cambridge University 

Sept 2016                                    Mental Health Exhibition ARU Cambridge 

Oct 2016                                      Wysing Arts Retreat – Cambridge 

March 2016                                 City Gallery Open Peterborough 

Nov 2015                                     Aid & Abet – Elan Space Workshop 

Oct 2015                                      ALL  Festival of Ideas Cambridge

October 2015                              Metal Harvest  – Performance with  Aisha Zia

September 2015                         Biennale Trapani – Magazzini Arte Contemporanea

December 2014                           Zeitgeist Art Project  APC Gallery New Cross  

Sept 2014                                    ZAP Summer Open APC Gallery New Cross London

Sept  2013                                   Find Me Keep Me Project, Creative Peterborough ACE

July – Sept 2012                          ARTIC BLUE GALLERY –  Ibiza  

April 25-28 2012                          ART Monaco  – Monte Carlo  

Dec 8–11 2011                             Salon Des Beaux Arts – Louvre Paris  

July – Aug 2011                          Camden Art Gallery London   

August 2010                                POP UP SPACE – Bank Side LONDON 
  
EDUCATION
2015-2017                                  MA Fine Art, Cambridge School of Art

2016                                           Ceramic Surface Design, Central St. Martins

2008                                           Curating & Design, Chelsea School of Art

2007                                           Teaching Cert 1 in Adult Learning, PRC

2002-2006                                  BA Fine Art Sculpture, Cambridge School of Art
    

PRINT AND PUBLICATIONS

* Pina Santoro, Art on a Plate  2017 
* Unspoken, Aesthetica Magazine 2015
* Prisms and Lights Exhibition, Moment Magazine UK 2015
* Art Monaco Magazine, (AB Gallery) Special Edition III Monte Carlo 2012
* Societe Nationale des Beaux – Arts (Catalogue), Paris 2011
* How Artists See People – Green Pebble  UK 2011
* ART – Green Pebble UK 2011
* Artist Profile, Art Soul Magazine UK October  2010 
COLLECTIONS
*Art Council – ICAP Sculpture ICA Peterborough
*Vivacity Library Archive – Cultural Artworks Collection
*NHS Trust Peterborough UK
*Folksworth School Collection UK
*Cambridge Art Works UK
*Private Collections Cyprus 
*Private Collections EM Architects UK