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Gemma Detti
Italian Architect and Artist
“My work in London intends to dress the bare wall in harmony with its architectural surroundings.”
Gemma has lived in London since 2004, with her current work principally dedicated to unearthing and interpreting emblematic examples of the city’s man-made landscape. She employs sharp lines and strong colours to striking effect. Besides her “architectural portraiture”, she also paints figurative subjects, though the approach is softened and less analytical.
Gemma was born in Rome, where she later trained as an architect. Nevertheless her home is in the southern part of Tuscany, where she specialised in the restoration of farmhouses, historic buildings and the construction of new hotels and restaurants. She studied fresco and marbling techniques in Urbino, which she applied to walls, plaster panels and wooden furnishings. She also spent many years in the South of Italy in the reconstruction after the earthquake of 1980, and has worked on projects in the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East.
She now works on canvas treated with quartz paint, creating a wall-like surface, on which she lays several coats of acrylic paints with natural pigments.
Recent exhibitions
Salon Gallery, Westbourne Grove, London W2 - 2005
Founding member of the Marylebone Arts Brigade - 2006
The Old Fire Station, Marylebone, London W1 - 2007
Enid Lawson Gallery, New Cavendish Street, London, W1 - 2007-2008
Battersea Art Fair - Enid Lawson Gallery - 2007
Edinburgh Art Fair - Enid Lawson Gallery - 2007
Colomb Art Gallery, George Street, London W1 - 2007-2009
Art in Marylebone, Old Library, London W1 - 2008
Westminster Open Exhibition, SW1 Gallery, London - 2008
Colomb Art Gallery, George Street, London W1 - Solo exhibition - March 2009
Art in Marylebone, American InterContinental University, London W1 - 2009
Westminster Open Exhibition, SW1 Gallery, London - 2009
Solo Exhibition, Italian Cultural Institute at FIAT Marylebone, London -
2009
Marshall Street Gallery, Soho - 2010
Louise Blouin Foundation, London W11 - Solo Exhibition - 2010
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