Visual artist Marina Trani Follow.Art Card

About me

I am a London-based artist of Italian origin. After spending most of my professional life as a scientist, I became a full-time artist in 2021. I supported this radical shift by completing a BA in Fine Art in 2024 and an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, in 2026.
My practice is driven by an ongoing effort to reconcile deeply felt contradictions such as negotiating my Italian and British identities, reflecting on human fallibility and responding to the unsettling realities of contemporary geopolitics. My work explores how material objects, landscapes, and everyday encounters can exceed their functional roles to become repositories of memory, agency, and meaning.
My projects often begin with familiar entities (objects, domestic spaces, or landscapes) that are reinterpreted as vessels connecting personal and collective histories, past and present. Through close observation and transformation, I aim to reveal their capacity to embody lived experiences and provoke new ways of seeing. Recurring motifs include traditional family ceramics, a terrace lined with green tiles or even just simple pasta tubes reimagined as viewing devices. These function both as intimate autobiographical references and as shared cultural signifiers, inviting viewers to reflect on their own memories and relationships with material culture.