Biography
Giulia Zaniol RE is an Italian artist based in London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Rooted in her Venetian lineage, her practice explores vulnerability, resilience and interdependence through material instability, working across printmaking, encaustic painting, sculpture and installation.
Zaniol completed a Master’s degree in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts and was awarded the Clifford Chance Postgraduate Student Award in 2006, selected by Allen Jones RA. Her work has featured in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2026, and is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and Clifford Chance.
Over more than two decades, her work has evolved from earlier image-led approaches towards increasingly material and spatial forms, where questions of instability, endurance and interdependence continue to unfold.
Practice
Zaniol’s work draws on Venice’s shifting relationship with water, erosion and time as both material reference and metaphor. The city becomes a lens through which broader questions of ecological fragility, inherited memory, displacement and precarity are explored.
Across image, surface and spatial form, traces of accumulation, fracture and repair emerge through encaustic, printmaking and sculpture. Impressions of lace, damask and ornamental patterning recur as echoes of Venice’s histories of exchange, craftsmanship and luxury, often disrupted or partially dissolved to suggest erosion, instability and fragile foundations.
Recent works increasingly move beyond the image plane into sculptural forms, where vulnerable figures hover between support and uncertainty. Through layering, sedimentation and material transformation, the work explores how bodies, memories and places endure under conditions of change.
Selected Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2026 (Layers, collagraph print)
A Moment in Time, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, 2026
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2025
The People Who Woke Up Happier, group exhibition, Morley Gallery, London, 2025
Slow Looking, Artists of Morley, Morley College, London, 2024
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2019
RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London, 2019
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2018
Brand Art Sensation, solo exhibition curated by the artist, Gallery Different and site-specific billboard installations across London, 2015
The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008
Originals 08, Mall Galleries, London, 2008
Sir Peter Blake’s Printmaking Feast Auction, The Arts Club, London, 2008
Baroque, Eagle Gallery, London, 2008
Clifford Chance Print Collection Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2007
Originals 07, Mall Galleries, London, 2007
Scoperto, MB O MB Studio, organised by R. De Galasso and R. Ferraresi, Venice, 2006
Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking Exhibition, London, 2006
Veniceland, MA Degree Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2006 — including a large-scale site-specific digital installation on the exterior façade of the college building
Teardo Award: The Winners, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, 2005
Open Art 2004, Sala del Bramante, Rome, 2004
Art Première, Warner Village Cinemas, curated by Elena Del Drago, Rome, 2004
Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, London, 2003
Public & Private Collections
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) Collection, London, 2013
Victoria and Albert Museum Print Collection, London, 2007
Clifford Chance Art Collection, London, 2006
Awards & Honours
Heatherley School of Fine Art Prize, Outstanding Print, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Annual Exhibition, 2019
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), 2013
Birgit Skiöld Trust Award, Originals 07, Mall Galleries, London, 2007
Clifford Chance Postgraduate Student Award, selected by Allen Jones RA, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2006
Ardizzone Print Prize, Summer Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, 2006
Printmakers Council Prize, Summer Show, London, 2006
Gino Rossi Award, VIII National Painting Prize, Crocetta del Montello, Italy, 2005
Teardo Award, 2nd Prize in Graphics, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, 2005
Open Art Competition, 2nd Prize in Graphic Design, Sala del Bramante, Rome, 2004
Selected Commission
Victoria and Albert Museum, London — commission for Print on the Run Conference, edition of 300 prints, 2006
Selected Residency
Artist in Residence, Croydon College of Art, London, 2006–2007
Education & Professional Development
2025–2027
MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, UK
2024–2025
Fine Art Mentoring Course, Morley College London, UK
2011–2012
Advanced Painting Practice, Morley College London, UK
2005–2006
MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2004–2005
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy (Painting and Printmaking)
2002–2003
BA Graphics and Advertising (Printmaking pathway), Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
2001–2002
Erasmus Scholarship, Escola de Dibuix Gràfic, Barcelona, Spain
1998–1999
BTEC Art & Design, Leeds College of Art & Design, UK