Alessia Marullo is a visual artist interested in understanding how memories+time+space affect each other and the individual.

Born in Sicily in 1992, she grew up in a small town next to Etna, an active Vulcano. This layered and harsh land will influence her subjects and palettes. She showed an early academic interest in science, nature, writing, and drawing, graduating high school with a diploma in Painting.

She moved to London in 2012 to pursue the development of her art practice. After attending Kensington and Chelsea College, she studied Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art. During these years, her work developed recurrent themes and processes that are still present today. It was also the start of her business as an exotic dancer to fund her studies.

Her current work focuses on transient imagery+language coming from specific memories. She often induces states of mind/consciousness that connect us with our deepest emotions.

She recently graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art and currently doing her MA at the Royal College of Art, London.

I rarely have an idea of the finished work, it often begins with a thought or an interest that gives me the starting point for an investigation.

Using painting, printmaking and language, I want to create a snapshot of infinite neurological pathways that make the invisible memories accessible to ourselves and the person on the other side of the exchange.

Memory is the communal denominator defining individuality.

We chase time whilst archiving our memories, we blindly trust unreliable recollections. Yet memory is the only proof that we or people around us existed at some point, that we lived in that time and space with them.

I like to induce some images or scenes linked to specific parts of my life, then I let floating words and colours settle on the surface. Sometimes is by painting and writing, or by creating prints mirroring the fading and messy quality of remembering.

It doesn’t have to be shared with words and figurative clues, but rather an outcome that’s originated from something tangled into individuality, without indulging in an exclusively personal reading.

It's helpful to aim at a universal language that touches our shared experience as human beings in a way that is not necessarily relatable as a subject, or explainable in sentences.

That’s also why I have an interest in neurology, cognitive functions, and altered state of consciousness. These are different portals into trying to pin down how and why create and interpret anything at all, in a universe that’s dark and silent unless there’s a sentient being experiencing it.

Born in 1992 in Sicily, Italy

Based in London since 2012

Education

• MA Painting, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, August 2024

• BFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), London, May 2023

• Level 4 Diploma in Art and Design- Foundation Studies, Kensington and Chelsea College (UAL), London, 2018

Previous Studies

• BA Humanities, Cultural Heritage and History of Art Pathway, University of Catania. Attended in 2014-2016

• BA (Hon) Humanities - Art History, Open University. Attended in 2013-2014.

• High School Diploma, High School of Art, Painting (equivalent to A-levels in the UK), Liceo Artistico Statale E. Greco, Catania (Italy). Graduated in 2012

• High School of Science, Liceo Scientifico Capizzi, Bronte, (Italy). Attended in 2007-2009

GROUP SHOWS

London

• Ojiri Gallery, Tear Rubber, 2024

• Slade School of Fine Art, Graduation Show, 2023

• Candid Art Trust, One Off, 2023

• 4 Garden Walk, Chroma, 2022

• Kensington and Chelsea College, Graduation Show, 2018