Women in Art - Raising the Bar

Jasmine Pradissitto is an award-winning London based British artist, scientist, speaker, and environmentalist who has a Ph.D. in physics from UCL and has studied art at Goldsmith’s and London Met. A polymath, her critical practice spans painting, sculpture and technology and she is the only artist in the world licensed to use NOXTEKTM, a newly developed ceramic material that absorbs nitrogen dioxide (NOx) pollution from the air. The same NOx that exacerbates asthma. She has been pioneering its use for sculpture for the last 5 years.. Pradissitto, currently working with Gillian Jason Gallery in London, has exhibited worldwide including most recently, installing two pioneering public art projects in London for The Horniman Museum Gardens and for Camden People’s Theatre with Euston Town, a Mayor of London environmental initiative.

At the heart of a sustainable future in an increasingly Anthropogenic world, lies provision for the most fundamental of our needs, air, water, equity. Pollution, a by-product of a human progress based on combustion and intensive farming, affects not only 9 out of every 10 people globally, but also species from bees to flowers.

As we enter the ‘Conceptual Creative Age’ we can find an answer based on one of the best things which make us human: our stories.  In science we are bound by the natural laws, in art and culture simply by our imaginations, but by joining the two, with an increasingly fragile natural world we can create impactful solutions to the most pressing problems of our modern age: climate crisis.

Education

2002-2006 Sir John Cass BA (Hons) Fine Art (pt.)

1991-1995 University College London Ph.D. Materials, Physics

1993-1995 Goldsmith’s College, London Foundation Art & Design

Awards

2021PEA (people, environment, achievement) Award for Pioneering Art- sculpture

2020 DEFRA Award for Flower Girl Horniman Museum Gardens-sculpture

2020 Shortlisted Sustainability First- sculpture

2017 Shortlisted Art Gemini Prize-sculpture 

2015 Silver Medal for Painting, Masters International Prize

2012 Shortlisted Threadneedle Prize-painting

2007 Silver Award, Lautierie Moores Prize-painting

2006 Shortlisted Celeste Painting Prize

Public Art

2023 Memorial for Ella Roberta Foundation 

2021 Breathe 2021 In pollution absorbing NOXTEK for Camden- Mayor of London

2020 Flower Girl Horniman Museum Gardens

Recent Exhibitions

2021 Mall Galleries- The Discerning Eye

2021 Mall Galleries- Figurative Art Now

2021 Gillian Jason Gallery-Heart of the Matter

2021 Inaugural Sustainability First -Reconnected

2020 The Barge House- To Mars  and  Beyond

2019 The Francis Crick  Institute - Japanese  Society  Promotion  Science

2019 The Museum  of  London-Future Change makers

2018  The House of Vans with Blue Dot Generation

2018  Tate Modern-Uniqlo Tate Late

2018 The Ugly Duck-Transcendence

2018 Anderson Contemporary  New York- Art 180

2018 The Quin, New York- -The Voice of a Generation

2017 SciArt Centre, New York- -Embodied

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