Giulia Quaresima

Giulia Quaresima is an Italian portrait and figurative artist living and working in Cambridgeshire, UK.

Her art career includes an extensive education. She graduated with a BA in Painting (Hons) from the Academy of Fine Arts, Carrara, Italy, in 2006 and with a BA (Hons) in Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Pisa, Italy in 2009, before completing her MA in History of Contemporary Art (Hons) at the University of Pisa, Italy in 2012.

Quaresima’s work has been exhibited in London – Mall Galleries (Women in Art Fair, Society of Women Artists, Society of Graphic Fine Art); The Gallery at Green and Stone, Chelsea – and also across the UK (Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy, North Wales; Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Somerset; The Gallery, Holt) – and internationally too (Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Cesano Maderno, Italy; Italian Culture Institute Gallery, Cracow, Poland; Petrartedizioni Art Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy).

Giulia Quaresima is a member of The Cambridge Drawing Society, and an Associate Member of The Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA).  She has received a special commendation from the Institute of East Anglian Artists as a result of her entry in the IEA Open Exhibition 2022. She has been shortlisted out of 836 entries as one of the 11 finalists of the London Graphic Centre Art Prize 2023 sponsored by Theo Paphitis. She has been one of the contestants on Series 11 Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year 2024, drawing a portrait of TV star and comedian Rosie Jones.

Website: https://www.giuliaquaresima.com

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