An urban art lover and expert who completed a PhD in Cultural & Postcolonial Studies with a thesis on Street Art by t... moreAn urban art lover and expert who completed a PhD in Cultural & Postcolonial Studies with a thesis on Street Art by the title 'A Journey Towards an Elsewhere. Street Art and Alternative Visions of the City'. An explorer of the city and a curious eye, keen to discover art interwoven and hidden in the urban fabric through Situationist and Pshychogeograpical techniques. Interested in subculture, counterculture and grassroot movements. Director and curator of the Effimera Street Art Festival in Italy, she regularly runs Graffiti and Street Art Tours in London. She curated the exhibition Outside In. Creativity in Lockdown (2020) at The Whitechapel Bell Foundry & The Old Bank Vault, Time Hole (2020), an art documentary by Pietro Silvestri, Elementi (2019), an exhibition by Gennaro Branca at Palazzo delle Culture – Canna, Italy and Urbanità (2018), an exhibition by Kult, La180 and Gennaro Branca at Palazzo delle Culture – Canna, Italy. In 2017, she received the award Premio Canna Cultura: Un Ponte tra Arte e Scienza 2016-17 that wants to acknowledge women's creativity both in the artistic and scientific fields. She also worked with StolenSpace Gallery, one of the most renowned gallery with a focus on graffiti and street art. She collaborated with Widewalls (https://www.widewalls.ch/author/md) as an author, writing blog posts and features about art exhibitions and artists and interviewing artists and industry experts. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of Street Art and Urban Creativity Scientific Journal, the first academic journal with a focus on street art, graffiti and urban creativity. In 2010 at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" she designed and delivered the workshop “Street art: artistic practices of resistance and subversion”.edit
