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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 Turps Banana Residency Show IV, Turps Gallery, London (UK)

2025 Performance Festival, at Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)

2021 Last Orders! at London Open City, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2021 All the Time in the World, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2020 Timeless Thames at Totally Thames Festival, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2020 Solo Show – Another Day on the Island, book launch & exhibition, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2019 There and back – 30 years retrospective,HGP, Ava Gallery, Cape Town (S.Af.)

2019 100, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2018 Social Lube,The Workshop, London (UK)

2017 Cable Street Arts Festival, Cable Street Studio, London (UK)

2016 Sharing Sketchbooks, Conway Library, London (UK)

2016 TAPE, Copeland Gallery, London (UK)

2016 UNIT, CGP – Dilston Grove Gallery, London (UK)

2015 Travelling School of Drawing – student exhibition, Eldokan, Alexandria (EG)

2015 We all Draw – UAL Drawing Exhibition, Bargehouse, OXO Tower, London (UK)

2013 Selected CASS student exhibition, C4RD, London (UK)

In the studio at Turps Banana residency, Ph. Fleur Simon

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2021 Last Orders, London Open City, The Steamship Project Space, London (UK)

2020 Timeless Thames for Totally Thames Festival, The Steamship PS, London (UK)

2020 Another Day on the Island, Anna Chiarini.

2019 Invisible City, The Steamship PS, London (UK)

Invisible City, installation view.
Ph. Gabriela Zigova

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2022 Tell us of Earth, public commission ‘In Search of Refuge’, Kent and Medway Museum Partnership. Canterbury (UK)

2018 Airing the Laundry, drawing installation for ‘Fighting Stigma through Film’ festival. Sponsored by Foreign and Commonwelth Office, hosted at the British Film Institute, London (UK)

2013 Mural painting for San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Children’s Radiotherapy Departement, call for tender by University of Florence, public commission, Rome (IT)

Cobalt Blue, audio-visual collaboration with Femi-Oriogun Williams, V&A (2025)

RESIDENCIES

2025 Turps Banana Residency (6th October-24th November)

2018 4DGallery, Collaborative Residency Program, Mural. Galanta (SK) (3rd-20th August)

2016 Travelling School of Drawing, Summer Residency Program, Gudran Association for Art and Development in partnership with British Council of Arts, Alexandria (EG) (August 22nd-September 5th)

PUBLICATIONS

2020Another Day on the Island‘, graphic novel, written and illustrated by Chiarini Anna (92 pages)

2019PPS, Post Post Scriptum‘, a Steamship PS zine. (n.1, 2)

2018 Chiaroscuro light and storytelling, Gillian McIver writing about travel, art and film.

Ph: Iso Vento

EDUCATION

2015 -2017 BA – Drawing, UAL, Camberwell College of Arts , London (UK)

2001-2011 LAS Maffeo Olivieri, Brescia (IT)