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Maddalena Zadra (b. 1996, Italy) is a London-based Italian artist who works across painting, drawing, printmaking, and textile based installations. The artist’s work touches upon aspects of the tactile and the sensual whilst remaining playful through subtly contrasting vulnerability and eroticism. Referencing a variety of cultures and historical aesthetics, she explores symbolic meaning and storytelling in her practice, creating multi-layered, open scenarios. The artist often integrates different ways of mark making and its relationship with surface, exploring the limits of collage, drawing and print, and inviting audiences to explore their own understanding around the flexibility of painting, and the possibilities of craftsmanship.

Maddalena Zadra studied at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2018, and has since shown nationally and internationally in group exhibitions including ‘N.43’ with Atelier LK, London; ‘Cats Mother, Her, She’, Organhaus Gallery, Chongqing, (2019), ‘FBA Futures’, Mall Galleries, London (2019), ‘Platform Graduate Award’ 2018, ‘De La Warr Pavilion’, Bexhill (2018), Affordable Art Fair, London (2018) ,’Look’, Freelands Foundation, London (2018), and ‘Speak to the world’, Orbit UK Art Graduates Show, London (2018). In 2019 she undertook the Organhaus Residency in Chongqing (China) and is currently taking part of the Carpenters Wharf Studios Residency in East London.
 

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