Roberta De Caro is a multi-disciplinary artist of Italian origins based in London, UK. She started out as a self-taught glass artist in 2011, when she set up her own glass studio. In 2019, she received a First-Class Honours Degree in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (CGLAS) and was awarded a number of prizes including the CGLAS 2019 Sculpture Prize, the Beckwith scholarship and Travel Prize, the Philip Connard Travel Prize and twice the Student Initiated Project Prize that she used to fund two separate socially engaged art projects. She was also offered a scholarship for a postgraduate course at CGLAS. She completed an MA in Art & Material Histories with distinction in October 2021.
In February 2022 she received Arts Council England’s funding to run From the Fragment to the Whole (2019, ongoing) – a socially engaged art project that explores glass as a metaphor for surviving domestic abuse. After a successful exhibition at Espacio Gallery, London, in July 2022, she was awarded a second Arts Council England grant to expand the project. She ran an event at Hackney Town Hall in collaboration with Hackney Council in March 2024 and is planning a large exhibition in 2025.
She has just completed an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art supported by the Marit Rausing Scholarship. In 2022/23 De Caro was offered a two-year Fellowship in the glass department at CGLAS, which she will return to in the academic year 2024/25. She has been selected for the Mass Sculpture programme at Thames-Side Studios for 2024/2025.