Alice Biolo
Alice has been exploring the theme of pain, trauma, insecurities through her collections for the past year to spread awareness about mental health and open a conversation with the public, with the aim of normalised human emotions. The predominant characteristic of her creations lies in their simplicity and the absence of adornments on the front. The designs remain concealed on the back, eschewing any overt symbolism for the public and fostering an intimate connection solely with the wearer.
EXHIBITIONS
2016: Exhibition and presentation about Art School P. Selvatico at Italian Cultural Institute' In Prague
2017: Calegaro Awards San Rocco, Padova, Italy
2017: ''A Theatre: Romanticism and contemporary of the women protagonists of Giacomo Puccini's works'', Palazzo Pianetti Jesi, Italy
2018: Help for Life, exhibition for Padova Ospitale Onlus, Padova, Italy
2018: Somos Joyerìa V'' curator Elena Larren, Museo de Palencia, Spain
2019 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2019, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2021 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2021, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2021 November: Precious encounters, Glasgow central station, UK
2021 November: Lost wax for lost-species, Founders Hall, London, UK
2022 January: Lost wax for lost species, Victoria Street gallery, Birmingham, UK
2022 March: Lost wax for lost species, fisher court gallery, London, UK
2022 March: radical jewellery makeover exhibition, princes square, Glasgow, UK
2022 May: ''Touch'' exhibition, Reid building, Glasgow, UK
2023 February: ''Purifying the soul''-''the soul is responding'' curated by Felicia Li, Vonmo gallery - laang space, Beijing, China
2023 March: ''Glasgow Delight'', schmuck info-point, Marienplatz, Munich, Germany
2023 March: ''Revolution, visions of women life freedom'', SNAG magazine virtual exhibition curated by Azita Mireshghi and Siavash Jaraiedi
2023 May: Momentum exhibition, the Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK
2023 June: Degree Show Silversmithing and Jewellery Department, Reid Building, Glasgow, UK
2023 June: New Designer, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2023 August: ‘’AGCpunto.23: Sguardi Femminili Contemporanei’’, Palazzo dell’Artigianato, Guardiagrele (CH), Italy.
2023 August: Marzee International Graduate Show 2023, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2023 September: Re:Action international exhibition Budapest Jewellery week 2023, Budapest, Hungary
2023 October: VDW Jewelry Selection 2023, Venice Design Week 2023, Museo del Palazzo Mocenigo Venice, Italy
2023 October: Roma Jewellery Week, Alternatives Gallery in collaboration with AGC.italy, Roma, Italy
2023 October: Vonmo 4th Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition ‘’This jewelry is 100RMB’’ curated by Felicia Li, Beijing, China
2023 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2023, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2023 October: AGCpunto23 reloaded, Archivio Negroni, Milano, Italy
2023 October: Elements Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2023 November: ‘’Truth or Dare’’ Adornaxis, New York Jewellery Week 2023, New York, United state of America
2023 November: ‘Memories are made of this’ curated by Corinne Julius, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 February: ‘’Then&Now : One Hundred Years of VAS’’ Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2024 February: ‘’Talente Master of the future 2024’’, Munich Jewellery Week, Internationale Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany
AWARDS AND SHORTLISTING
2021 May: Shortlisted CCDC.uk
2022 February: Silver awarded category 2D silversmithing at the goldsmiths' craft & design council awards,
goldsmiths' hall, London, UK
2022 May: shortlist and finalist ccdc.uk
2023 June: Commended, GSA Sustainability Degree show Prize 2023
2023 June: Shortlisted Visual Art Scotland Graduate Showcase Award
2023 June: Fife Contemporary New Maker Award prize winner, 2023
2023 June: Incorporation of Hammermen prize, 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2023 June: Goldsmith’s Centre One to Watch prize winner, New Designers, London, United Kingdom
2023 June: ND Selects Spotted, New Designers, London, United Kingdom
2023 July: Shortlisted Outstanding Scottish Student Award, The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust
2023 September: Nominee New Talent Award 2023 Klimt02
2023 October: Second prize Venice Design Week Jewelry Selection 2023
2024 February: Finalist ‘’Giancarlo Montebello Award’’ - AGC.Italy
2024 March: Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards, Silver award 3D Design Conceptual Jewellery, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK
2024 March: Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards, Bronze award 3D Craft&Design Laser Technology, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTION
2022 September: Koala For the Lost-wax For Lost-species acquired by the worshipful company of founders, bronze sculpture collection, Founders’ Hall, London UK
PUBLICATION and FEATURES
The Skinny, June 2023 Issue 209: Degree Show 2023, The Glasgow School of Art, p.43, 1st June 2023
BenchPeg, Highlights of New Designers 2023, 2nd July 2023
Crafts Council / Stories: Making waves, our pick of this year’s fresh craft graduates, Heloise Parke, 2nd August 2023
ReWriters: Il gioiello contemporaneo alla 53ma mostra di artigianato artistico abruzzese di Guardiagrele, Elena Alfonsi, 10th August 2023
ReWriters: Alternatives Gallery presenta 18 designer internazionali alla RJW Roma Jewellery Week, Elena Alfonsi, 27th September 2023
The life of Jewels: ‘‘Exhibition Review: Memories are made of this’’, Rachel Church , 3th January 2024
2016: Exhibition and presentation about Art School P. Selvatico at Italian Cultural Institute' In Prague
2017: Calegaro Awards San Rocco, Padova, Italy
2017: ''A Theatre: Romanticism and contemporary of the women protagonists of Giacomo Puccini's works'', Palazzo Pianetti Jesi, Italy
2018: Help for Life, exhibition for Padova Ospitale Onlus, Padova, Italy
2018: Somos Joyerìa V'' curator Elena Larren, Museo de Palencia, Spain
2019 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2019, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2021 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2021, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2021 November: Precious encounters, Glasgow central station, UK
2021 November: Lost wax for lost-species, Founders Hall, London, UK
2022 January: Lost wax for lost species, Victoria Street gallery, Birmingham, UK
2022 March: Lost wax for lost species, fisher court gallery, London, UK
2022 March: radical jewellery makeover exhibition, princes square, Glasgow, UK
2022 May: ''Touch'' exhibition, Reid building, Glasgow, UK
2023 February: ''Purifying the soul''-''the soul is responding'' curated by Felicia Li, Vonmo gallery - laang space, Beijing, China
2023 March: ''Glasgow Delight'', schmuck info-point, Marienplatz, Munich, Germany
2023 March: ''Revolution, visions of women life freedom'', SNAG magazine virtual exhibition curated by Azita Mireshghi and Siavash Jaraiedi
2023 May: Momentum exhibition, the Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK
2023 June: Degree Show Silversmithing and Jewellery Department, Reid Building, Glasgow, UK
2023 June: New Designer, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2023 August: ‘’AGCpunto.23: Sguardi Femminili Contemporanei’’, Palazzo dell’Artigianato, Guardiagrele (CH), Italy.
2023 August: Marzee International Graduate Show 2023, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2023 September: Re:Action international exhibition Budapest Jewellery week 2023, Budapest, Hungary
2023 October: VDW Jewelry Selection 2023, Venice Design Week 2023, Museo del Palazzo Mocenigo Venice, Italy
2023 October: Roma Jewellery Week, Alternatives Gallery in collaboration with AGC.italy, Roma, Italy
2023 October: Vonmo 4th Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition ‘’This jewelry is 100RMB’’ curated by Felicia Li, Beijing, China
2023 October: Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2023, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China
2023 October: AGCpunto23 reloaded, Archivio Negroni, Milano, Italy
2023 October: Elements Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2023 November: ‘’Truth or Dare’’ Adornaxis, New York Jewellery Week 2023, New York, United state of America
2023 November: ‘Memories are made of this’ curated by Corinne Julius, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2024 February: ‘’Then&Now : One Hundred Years of VAS’’ Visual Arts Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
2024 February: ‘’Talente Master of the future 2024’’, Munich Jewellery Week, Internationale Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany
AWARDS AND SHORTLISTING
2021 May: Shortlisted CCDC.uk
2022 February: Silver awarded category 2D silversmithing at the goldsmiths' craft & design council awards,
goldsmiths' hall, London, UK
2022 May: shortlist and finalist ccdc.uk
2023 June: Commended, GSA Sustainability Degree show Prize 2023
2023 June: Shortlisted Visual Art Scotland Graduate Showcase Award
2023 June: Fife Contemporary New Maker Award prize winner, 2023
2023 June: Incorporation of Hammermen prize, 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2023 June: Goldsmith’s Centre One to Watch prize winner, New Designers, London, United Kingdom
2023 June: ND Selects Spotted, New Designers, London, United Kingdom
2023 July: Shortlisted Outstanding Scottish Student Award, The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust
2023 September: Nominee New Talent Award 2023 Klimt02
2023 October: Second prize Venice Design Week Jewelry Selection 2023
2024 February: Finalist ‘’Giancarlo Montebello Award’’ - AGC.Italy
2024 March: Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards, Silver award 3D Design Conceptual Jewellery, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK
2024 March: Goldsmiths' Craft & Design Council Awards, Bronze award 3D Craft&Design Laser Technology, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, UK
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTION
2022 September: Koala For the Lost-wax For Lost-species acquired by the worshipful company of founders, bronze sculpture collection, Founders’ Hall, London UK
PUBLICATION and FEATURES
The Skinny, June 2023 Issue 209: Degree Show 2023, The Glasgow School of Art, p.43, 1st June 2023
BenchPeg, Highlights of New Designers 2023, 2nd July 2023
Crafts Council / Stories: Making waves, our pick of this year’s fresh craft graduates, Heloise Parke, 2nd August 2023
ReWriters: Il gioiello contemporaneo alla 53ma mostra di artigianato artistico abruzzese di Guardiagrele, Elena Alfonsi, 10th August 2023
ReWriters: Alternatives Gallery presenta 18 designer internazionali alla RJW Roma Jewellery Week, Elena Alfonsi, 27th September 2023
The life of Jewels: ‘‘Exhibition Review: Memories are made of this’’, Rachel Church , 3th January 2024
Hailing from Italy, Alice started her study in Jewellery design at the Liceo Pietro Selvatico in Padova. After her diploma she moved to the UK, initially in England and later in Scotland, where she further pursued the Silversmithing and Jewellery design course at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA (hons) in June 2023. Currently based in Glasgow.
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
Under the Skin