THE FIRST EXHIBITION (July 2022)
The collection From the Fragment To the Whole was exhibited at Espacio Gallery between the 30th June until the 03rd July 2022.
This project is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. I am so grateful to the Arts Council for contributing with a generous grant of £15,000 towards this series workshops and the final exhibition. From the Fragment to the Whole is now officially a multi award-winning project, having been awarded the 2019 Student Initiated Project Prize by City & Guilds of London Art School.
Artist and founder of From the Fragment to the Whole Roberta De Caro was joined by contemporary artists Silvia Levenson and Philippa Beveridge in a talk led by artist & philosopher Dr Matthew Rowe on Saturday 02 July 22 ( 2pm to 4pm ). We discussed glass making as a way to process trauma, the transformative power of this fascinating material, as well as the importance of art making in the healing process of survivors of domestic abuse.
Matthew Rowe is a philosopher, writer and lecturer/tutor at City and Guilds of London Art School and the Centre for Language, Culture and Communication at Imperial College London. He has published book chapters, articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings and book reviews, as well as papers at conferences in the UK, Europe and the US. Additionally, he has an occasional visual art practice and has contributed to group exhibitions in London, as well as exhibiting alone. Matthew also has a short film in a collection acquired by the British Film Institute and in the UAL British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection.
Pippa Beveridge has a BA in Landscape Architecture and an MFA in Art in Architecture. She studied applied arts at the Massana Art School in Barcelona and advanced techniques in glass at the Barcelona Glass Foundation, where she also taught.
Her work, which ranges from small sculptural pieces to large-scale installations, is concerned with time and memory, the fleeting and transitory, absence and displacement, identity and loss. She has exhibited in galleries throughout Europe and her work is held in private and public collections internationally, including the Musée-Atelier du Verre, Sars-Poteries and the European Museum of Modern Glass, Rödental. She has received a number of grants and prizes, including the Jutta Cuny Franz Memorial New Talent Award, and lectured at colleges in France, Spain, Corning and Urban Glass, New York. She has run international artists’ workshops in Barcelona and the USA. Her commissions in glass include work for an exhibition by the Enric Miralles Practice and glass walls for an office in Barcelona. She is currently working on a project for the Scottish based charity ‘Pamis’ to create sites of memory and remembrance throughout Scotland.
Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Silvia Levenson immigrated to Italy in 1981,
during the "disappearances" of the Dirty War .
She explores daily interpersonal relationships through installations and objects that state
firmly what is usually felt or whispered. Her work is centralized on this unspeakable space,
which is oftentimes so small, located between what we can see and what we feel and use
glass to reveal those things that are normally hidden.
In 2004, Levenson received the Rakow Commission Award from the Corning Museum of
Glass in 2008 she was a shortlisted nominee for the Bombay Sapphire Prize and in 2016
she received The Glass in Venice Award from Istituto Veneto, Venice, Italy.
Her work has been exhibited around the world and is a part of several public collections
like Corning Museum of Glass, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fè, Houston Fine Art
Museum, Toledo Museum of Art ,Mint Museum, Charlotte, Chrysler Museum of Art,
Sunderland Glass Museum, UK, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes , Buenos Aires,
Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung , Munich, MUDAC , Lausanne and Castello Sforzesco
Museum, Milan