I’m also heavily inspired by Scandanavian and 60’s and 70’s interiors. Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders are hugely influential to me. I like experimental cinema and music like Broadcast and Cocteau Twins.

Artists like Niki De Saint Phalle, Jonas Mekas, Pipilotti Rist, and Lily Van Der Stokker have also played a huge influence on me over the years and I still love them to this day.

How important is social media when it comes to sharing your work?
I enjoy using social media as a visual diary of my day – even if it’s just a story or two from the studio or a photo of Kira. I just do what I want to do with it and try to avoid any commercial pressure to use the platform in a way that doesn’t feel right for me.

Reflecting on your career to date, what do you recall as being your career highlight?
I worked on a series of paintings for a solo show in Italy two years ago called Fanciulla, which translates to Young Girl. It was inspired by an encyclopedia from the ’60s called, The Encyclopedia of the Young Maid, which I inherited from my mum, who inherited it from my Grandfather.

The show was made up solely of portraits of women, of course, and it was the first time I have exhibited my work in my home country of Italy after exhibiting in the UK, China, Japan, and Poland. It was a proud moment for me.

What’s next for you as we move closer to 2021?
I’m currently part of a few group shows, but I’d really like to work towards a new solo show. With lockdown, it’s quite tricky to plan that far ahead but I’m preparing anyway, with the assumption that I will have a solo show sometime in the near future! Fingers crossed it’s sooner rather than later.

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