Biography

Born in Rome Italy, in 1982, Francesca Secchi studied paintings conservation at the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro (ISCR) in Rome, specialising in the conservation of modern and contemporary paintings, and contemporary art with a Masters’ at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure (OPD) in Florence. From 2012 to 2015, she worked as a Lecturer in several academies of fine arts and universities across Italy. Since her graduation in 2007, she has been involved in important projects for many private and public art institutions in several Italian cities, in Madrid and Valencia, and in London where she has been based since 2016. Here she works as a freelance Conservator for private galleries and collections and at the Tate Gallery.

Daily surrounded by art, her work is influenced by the strong and bright colours of contemporary paintings, in particular Pop Art, and inspired by the natural world. Her abstract forms and always dynamic shapes are evocative of her inner-self and her observation and contemplation of natural phenomena and forms. Vortices, spirals and undulated lines seem to suggest the constant movement of rivers and oceans, the changing sound of the wind through rocks or foliages and the importance of re-connecting our busy lives in metropolis to nature.

Recognizing her Sardinian roots, and Sardinia being land of great ceramists from the Nuragic to the contemporary era, Francesca has more recently started experimenting with painting on ceramic as a new possibility of expressing her creativity. Fascinated by London’s multiculturalism, she believes in the importance of strongly identify ourselves in our own cultural roots before being able to embrace other cultures with positivity, adding new values to a fruitful personal development.

“The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations.”  Léopold Sédar Senghor

Among the exhibitions she participated, there is the collective show ‘ThREE’ at the Thotel in Cagliari in 2013. She is organizing a solo exhibition at the gallery MICRO Arti Visive in Rome in 2021.