A collaborative project between artists with learning disabilities and autism from Share Community and designers from the Royal College of Art.
Project Leaders, Ellen Fowles and Anne Ferial.
Shot by Esme Moore, Assisted by Lucy Bilcock.
Marina Patalano is a multidisciplinary designer and artist based in London, having recently completed her Masters in Fashion at the Royal College of Art, Marina was a recipient of the Burberry Design Scholarship.
As a practising magician and spiritualist, her work aims to narrate stories; cautionary, existential, and mythical. New narratives shed light on the experiential, clandestine wonder; encompassing her own experiences and involving others in this journey.
Through her stage performance and spiritual work and specialising in solely using vintage fabrics and materials, her intention is to preserve storytelling, folklore and craft, as well as offering guidance towards self-actualisation and healing.
Drawing on the folklore and traditions of Marina’s Italian heritage, her practice explores conversations with the dead through art, utilising artistic practice to communicate the most unseen thing that surrounds us all, and the phenomena of her late mother being her current teacher.