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
CV
www.figtreeartstudio.com
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
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