Fine Art nominee

And in the end this will be the beginning, nature will take over whatever we do to our planet. In this series I was I was considering my relationship with the nature by preserving plants and watching them decompose. We are born in the dirt and we die in the dirt was something my mother would say, she was an immigrant post WW2 leaving Italy for the England where she met my father who was a refugee from Ukraine.
The plants used came from their garden, these plants have my parents DNA in them. When the plants started to break down I could see the structures in them, this became transformative as I saw them as more beautiful than when they were whole. I started to think about what connects me to home and how I could explore my feelings of displacement and wherever you are in the world their will be plants that are universally shared, and how we as Humans have made ourselves other, other than nature, other than tribes we have placed ourselves at the top of the pile and ultimately this will be our downfall. Look at any abandoned place and see how it thrives ....

I have completed a BA in fine art and achieved a first class honours degree at The University of Gloucestershire as well as studying photography which was mainly wet room photography. I have had several exhibitions of photography and art and I have recently been selected for for The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in Scotland for two exhibition in April and June 2024 and February 2025 ,some of my work has also been published in The Guardian Newspaper and Frames Fine Art Photography Magazine as well as being recently being selected for 101 Contemporary Artists publication by Collect Art, I have been shortlisted for the Guardian Travel photography awards as well as Pink Lady Food Awards.
I exhibited at the Museum in the Park Stroud Gloucestershire and twice at and Lansdown Hall and Gallery Stroud, also Lanacre gallery on Exmoor .
A few years ago The Director of the Tate Modern GB picked a photograph that I had taken to be published in the Observer Newspaper.
I have also won the PJ Crook Arts Award for Outstanding Work for my final degree show-2017
I am now Ambassador and Workshop Lead at Hundred Heroines Photography Museum in Nailsworth Gloucestershire .