featured artists: Giulia Zaniol

Italian

Giulia is a printmaking artist based in London. She has recently become ARE, Associate member of the Royal Society of Printmaker-Painters.  Her work has twice been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and is part of the V&A and Clifford Chance collections.

In the last years Giulia has been producing etchings, digital prints and drawings on her hometown: Venice. Her focus has been the transformations caused by modernity and mass tourism on the fragile texture of the city. The result has been a series of clashing imaginary of modern and traditional architecture immersed in patterns that would underline the city’s strong bond with its history and tradition. Giulia’s patterns in fact take inspiration from XIV to XVI century Venetian embroideries.
Lately her attention has moved from Venice onto utopia cities such as those described in Calvino's 'Invisible Cities'. Through the development of this new body of work, she is producing imaginary scenes of fantastic cities populated by extraordinary characters and surreal architecture and objects.
Education:
2008                 Pg Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Art & Design, Ctrl St Martins
2006                 MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art, London
2005                 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
2003                 BA (HONS) Graphics Arts at Bucks New University, High Wycombe
2002                 Erasmus Scholarship at BAU, Escola de Dibujo Grafico, Barcelona 
1999                 BTEC Art & Design, Leeds College of Art & Design, UK
Awards:
2007                 Birgit Skiold Trust Award, Originals 2007
2006                 Clifford Chance Purchase Prize, Clifford Chance
2006                 Ardizzone Print Prize, Summer Show, Camberwell College
2006                 Printmaker’s Council, one-year membership
2005                 Gino Rossi Award, VIII edition, National Painting Prize, Crocetta del Montello
2005                 Teardo Award, Graphics 2nd prize, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice
2004                 Open Art Competition, Graphic Design 2nd prize, Sala del Bramante, Rome
In the Public Collections of:
2009                 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2008                 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, commission of 300 prints, type settings and silk-screens
2006                 Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf, London
Exhibitions:
Solo Shows:
2008                 BAROQUE, Giulia Zaniol and James Fisher, The Eagle Gallery
2006                 Scoperto, MB O MBStudio, organized by Roberta De Galasso and Roberta Ferraresi, Venice
2004                 Art Premiere, Warner Village Cinemas, Elena Del Drago curator, Rome
Group Shows:
2011             With Fimano Fine Art at 20/21 Art Fair, RCA, London
2010             With Orion Contemporary at the AAF, London
2010             The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2010             Originals 2010, The Mall Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
2010             St. George’s Hospital, Contemporary Women Printmakers
2010             With Orion Contemporary at the AAF, Brussels, Belgium 
2009             With Rebecca Hossack Gallery, The AAF, Battersea 
2009             Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2009                 The London Original Print Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Royal Academy, London
2009                 Clifford Chance, The Loop, London
2009                 The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, The Artichoke, London
2009                 Originals, The Mall Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
2008                 The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2008                 The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, The Eagle Gallery
2008                 Originals, The Mall Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
2008                 Sir Peter Blake’s Printmaking Feast, Auction at The Arts Club, London
2007                 The Loop, Bankside Gallery, Southwalk, London
2007                 The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, Clifford Chance        collection
2007                 Originals, The Mall Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
2006                 Clifford Chance, Postgraduate Printmaking, London
2004                 Open Art, Arte Contemporanea, Sala del Bramante, Rome
show biography
Candy Brothers
Blue green two plate etching edition of 75
size: 49.5 x 36 cm.
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My City
Gold ink etching (6 separate plates) on black somerset paper
size: 70 x 100cm
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My Grandma's Kitchen
Turquoise chine colle etching, ed. of 12
size: 65 x 55cm
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Homage to Canaletto
Gold ink on black and red chine colle etching
size: 42 x 39cm
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Lido
Gold ink etching on black somerset paper
size: 41 x 29.5cm
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Agata
Gold ink on blue chine colle etching, ed. of 6 (last remaining)
size: 86.5 x 70.5cm
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Emilia
Gold ink on purple chine colle etching ed. of 6
size: 86.5 x 70.5cm
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Lido (yellow)
Black ink etching on yellow paper. Edition of 12
size: TBC
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My grandma's kitchen (yellow)
Black ink etching on yellow paper. Edition of 12 exclusively to Orion
size: TBC
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