27 April – 27 May
Francesco’s diaphanous and dream-like watercolours of Italy are like memories; both contemporary and rooted in history. Working during the spring and summer 2020 in the Italian countryside Francesco’s en plein air paintings are spontaneous notes on the landscape
18 August – 10 September 2021
Francesco Poiana’s diaphanous and dream-like renditions of Italy are like memories, both contemporary and rooted in history. Working en plein air in the Italian landscape, these recent paintings are spontaneous, visual notes that speak to the past as well as something of our contemporary concerns.
8 January – 7 February 2021
Born in Faedis near Trieste, the son of an architect and winemaker, Francesco Poiana attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and then the celebrated Albicocca fine art printing workshop in Udine before studying for a Masters degree at St Martin’s College of Art in London.
Describing the kind of Japanese paper he uses to make his prints, Francesco Poiana says; ‘It is very thin and also very delicate. I like its feeling of lightness and also the rich tradition and history of paper from which it comes, which has had such a big cultural influence in the West; van Gogh […]
As part of our Tuesday lecture series which accompanies each exhibition we are excited to welcome Francesco into the gallery for an in depth discussion and presentation on his work and his processes and printmaking methods. The talk will accompany Francesco’s series of prints that will be on as part of our emerging talents programme. […]
Brought up amongst the groves and vineyards of Faedis in northern Italy, the son of an architect and winemaker, Francesco Poiana has exchanged the alluvial plains and terraces of the Mediterranean for the wild and open chalk downs of Wiltshire.
Francesco joined our emerging talents programming following his masters degree at St Martin’s art college in London in 2019. Later that summer he was invited to Wiltshire to spend time in the landscape surrounding Messums. It was a culmination for him of a reverse Grand Tour, that saw him trace a path from Italy to the landscape from which so many of the most legendary tours started. His interest however was in a connection to the landscape far more ancient; in particular he has been taken by the area around Cranborne Chase with its striations and lush gradations of green and the Bronze Age barrow of Win Green that stands high on a ridge above it.
2020 – “Emerging Talents Exhibition” – Messums, Mayfair. London
2020 -“London Art Fair 2020”- Messums Gallery. London
2019 – Freelance Artist for the project “N100” Campari, London/Milan
2019 – “Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair” – Award Winner ’19 . London
2019 – 7th Guanlan International Print Biennal, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen.
2018 – Printmaking Category Award “Jackson’s Emerging Artist prize”. London
2018 – “Postgraduate Art Auction”, Lethaby Gallery. London
2018 – Art residency- Printmaking studio. “Stamperia d’arte Albicocco”, Udine, Italy 2018 – Collective Exb- “Air“- Ravinkar Gallery, Ljubljana
2017 – Vladis Buss Plain Air Artistic Residency and Exhibition at “Mark Rothko Centre”, Latvia. 2016 Solo Show, “Amenei Gallery”, curated by Parione9 Gallery. Sicily
