I am a multidisciplinary artist of Italian origins, and based in London. The start of my art practice coincided with the birth of my daughter in 2010, also a catalyst for rebuilding my life after experiencing domestic abuse. I began as a self-taught glass artist in 2011, when I set up my own glass studio, and started my business, Peace of Glass, still a going concern. Bringing up a child single handedly, whilst healing from trauma had a profound effect on my life, and consequently on my work. Expanding from the personal to the universal, my artwork often deals with the impact of social injustice on people's psyche.

In 2019, I graduated in Fine Art BA (Hons) with a First Class Degree at City & Guilds of London Art School. During my studies I received: the CGLAS 2019 Sculpture Prize; the Philip Connar Travel Prize; the Beckwith Travel Award and Scholarship; and the Art-Monthly Critical Writing Prize. I was twice awarded the Student Initiated Project Prize (2018 and 2019) to fund community art projects, including my latest From the Fragment to the Whole (2020, ongoing) – a socially engaged art project that explores glass as a metaphor for surviving domestic abuse. With the funding I successfully created a pilot scheme for the project in May 2021. On the strength of this, I have recently been offered a grant from the Arts Council England to develop it into a large scale project in 2022.

I often involve the public – in this case survivors – to work directly with materials that reflect their history – glass – offering insights into their own lived experience – i.e. creating a new whole from fragments of glass as a metaphor for the process of rebuilding after abuse, and healing the fragmented self. Beside community art projects, I also create immersive installations that turn the domestic into the public, the personal into the political, influenced by artists such as Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread and many more. Through the poststructuralist lens of Roland Barthes, I explore everyday materials and processes as vehicles of meaning that subvert and destabilise what is usually taken for granted.