Biography

Born in Italy, lives and works in London since 1995. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. (BA, 2001-2004), (MA, 2004-2005).

Rossella Emanuele creative career started in the Performing Arts. She trained as a dancer and in the theatre, and from 1983 to 1995 performed with renowned international contemporary dance companies and in experimental theatre. Her dance and theatre background has informed her art-practice since the very beginning. Notions of movement, of event and a 'performative' element are strongly present in her earlier work.

More recent work explores ideas of time and duration, which she investigates through the processes of transformation of materials and the change in objects over time. She tends to use active, unpredictable materials, which are in continuous transformation and affected by changes in the environment. Through the use of materials that highlight ideas of impermanence and degradation Emanuele explores the relation between the ever-changing nature of life and the inner world of the subject. The tenuous balance between chaos and order and a reference to the body underpin much of her work. This manifests itself as an interest in the pivotal moment when objects disappear or dissolve which encourages the dehiscence of the object, and allows its entropy to become the strength of the work.

Taking the form of traces of events, very evocative and with a sense of memory, Emanuele's work transforms emotions into physical form shifting between material forms and experimentation with media.

Her current practice considers the dynamic relationship between form and formlessness in Fine Art practice by focusing on the art making process. This area of enquiry has recently become the subject for a practice-based PhD investigation, she has undertaken with the research centre for Transnational Art, Identity & Nation (TrAIN) at UAL.

Additionally Emanuele works as Associate Lecturer for Sculpture and Digital Media, at Camberwell College of Art.

Selected Exhibitions
2008	Open Studios, Parkhall Trading Estate , Martell Raod, London
2008	AA2A Final Show, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, UK.
2007	Islington Contemporary Art and Design Fair, October 2007; Painting, Sculpture, Time Based Media. At the Candid Arts Trust, London.
2007	Working Together, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK.
2007	Florence Trust 2007, Summer Show. London.
2007	Arts Unwrapped Open Studios, Florence Trust , 2007. London.
2007	Florence Trust 07, Winter Exhibition of current artists in residence. London.
2006	N5 Show, Florence Trust Studios, in association with Rollo Contemporary Art and Estorick Collection of Modern Art. London.
2005	Bigmakesmefeelgood, Chelsea College, curator Clare Goodwin. London.
2005	36 Craven Street, site-specific work for Benjamin Franklin House. London.
2004	A little flat in Kensington, curator Maria Walsh. London.
2003	Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery. Group Show. London.
2002	Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery. Group Show. London.
2002	Sculptors at Millbank, at the Former Royal Army Hospital, London.
2002	Curator for Choose Life, Holland Park, London; Charity SGI-UK.
2001	Text for the catalogue of the XI Biennale of Photography. Turin, Italy.
Awards/Residencies
2008	Residency at Assembly , St Just, Cornwall, artists led space set up by Abigail Reynolds and Andy Harper.
2007-2008	Artist in Residence at University Campus Suffolk, AA2A programme.
2007-2008	Artquest Forum, peers critique group with FT07 artists, funded by University of the Arts London.
2006-2007	Scholarship Award for Art and Design, Institute of Education , London.
2006-2007	Artist in Residence on The Florence Trust Studio Award Scheme, London.
2003	Short-listed for the Wandle river cycling path, Public Art project with Chelsea College of Art, Sustran Charity. London.
Publications
2007	Florence Trust, 2007 , Catalogue. Texts by Kathy Battista.
2006	Gutter Dreams, MA Fine Art 2005, Chelsea College of Art, texts by Lisa Le Feuvre, John Cussans and Shelagh Cluett.
Teaching
2008	Research symposium at UCS, Ipswich, AA2A programme.
2008	Artists' open lecture series and Mentoring for Fine Art at University Campus Suffolk , Ipswich (Undergraduate); AA2A residency programme.
2007-2008	Associate Lecturer for Sculpture and Digital Media at Camberwell College of Art, Foundation Studies, University of the Arts London.
2007-2008	Visiting Lecturer for Foundation Studies, Art & Design Diploma, at Hammersmith & West London College, London
2007	Associate Lecturer for Fine Arts at Wimbledon College of Art, School of Foundation, University of the Arts London; IoE Art and Design teacher training.
2006	Art Teacher at The Phoenix High School, Secondary School, London, IoE Art and Design teacher training.
2001-2003	Lecturer at Hammersmith and Fulham Borough.London.
1988-2001	Organisation and running of Art, Dance and Theatre workshops for Primary, Secondary Schools and Further Education. Italy and UK.
Selected Performances
2001	Performed with the company Fragments and Monuments, in Di Midsummer Night Party, directed by Anna Birch. For the Clissold Festival at Clissold House, Stoke Newington, London.
1993-1995	Performed in Grigio Respiro with the contemporary Dance company Fuori Scena. Turin, Italy.
1992	Performed in Scintille, with Anna Redi. Bologna, Italy.
1988-1992	Performed for the artist Vector Pisani, texts by Mimma Bruno. Rome, Italy.
1985-1990	Performed in Visual theatre and Dance companies: Le desir pris per la queue inspired by P. Picasso with the company Falso Movimento, directed by Mario Martone. Winner of Youth Section, Venice Biennale, 1992, Naples, Italy. Wuthering heights by Emily Bronte with the company Il Teatro, directed by Laura Angiulli, Naples, Italy. Circus by L. Angiulli with the company Il Teatro. Naples, Italy. Zar Saltan by Rimskij Korsakov, production directed by Luca Ronconi. Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia. Italy. Belle Epoque by V. Castagneto. (Radio programme, RAI) Italy.
Selected Dance and Drama Workshops
1994-1995	Theatre du Soleil directed by Ariane Mouchkine, France.
1993	Claudio Morganti, (experimental theatre), Italy.
1993	Leo De Berardinis, (experimental theatre), Italy.
1992	Pina Baush, (contemporary dance), Germany.
1992	Giorgio Barberio Corsetti Company, (visual theatre), Italy.
1991	Sosta Palmizi (dance company) with Raffaella Giordano and Roberto Castello, (Carolyn Carlson and Merce Cunningham training), Italy.
Education
2006-2007	Postgraduate Certificate in Art and Design, (PGCE - Secondary and Higher Education); Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
2005	Master of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK.
2004	Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK.
1999	Foundation of Art and Design, BTEC, London, UK.
1997	Proficiency in English; UCLES, London, UK.
1990-1994	Dance training, Mark De Beuys, from Opera`de Paris. Turin, Italy.
1982-1985	Drama School, Studio Fersen; Rome, Italy.
1975-1982	Dance Academies: Loredana Furno and Susanna Egri. Turin, Italy.

 

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