Justine Formentelli, Beginning, 2024, glazed ceramic, 32x18.5x3.5cm

"Through undulating forms and organic shapes, I interrogate the frontiers of the self, grounded in a body and existing in the surrounding world. I use elements of landscape as symbols of the vastness that surrounds us. Although figures are absent, the work is very much about how the external world permeates us at a deep level and how we are all connected by this existential flow traversing us. Attempting to map out the interaction of the internal and the external,  I am trying to convey this slow movement of living, breathing, becoming and changing that animates all living beings."

Justine Formentelli spent her childhood living in the Caribbeans, the island of Reunion and Morocco. After 11 years in the United States, where she studied Illustration and worked as a production designer at Harper’s Bazaar, she traveled around the world for a year before settling back in Europe. She is now based in London with her husband and two sons. She recently graduated from City and Guilds of London Art School with an MA. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

2016-18: MA Fine Art, Distinction, City and Guilds of London Art School
1995-98: BA Fine Art, Atlanta College of Arts (now SCAD) USA, Illustration, Communication and Design