231. Rômulo Avi - Summer Fool

2026
Plaster, pigment and glue
13.5 x 13.5 x 2 cm

Rômulo Avi (b. 1992) is an artist based between London and Valinhos, Brazil. Drawing from Romantic traditions, his work brings together archetypal imagery, esoteric symbolism, dream journals, and imagined narratives to create layered, shifting worlds. Stories and fragments of memory act as underlying currents throughout the work, continuously reshaping the painted surface as it evolves through process and intuition.

Approaching painting as an alchemically charged act, Avi works through cycles of layering, excavation, and material experimentation. Combining diverse techniques, tools, and traditions, he builds dense accumulations of texture and imagery that evoke both utopian interior landscapes and a personal sense of in-betweenness and displacement. His practice balances material investigation with emotional and symbolic resonance, allowing surfaces to emerge through uncertainty and transformation.

Avi completed an MFA (Hons) in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2021–2022), following Advanced Drawing and Painting studies at The Florence Academy of Art, Florence (2018–2020), and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism at PUCCAMP, Campinas, Brazil (2011–2017).

Recent exhibitions include the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London (2023 & 2025); Small But Mighty at the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London (2025); Passages at Luce Gallery, Turin (2024); Geographies of Memory at LAMB Gallery, London (2022); the CGLAS MA Graduation Show, London (2022); and LPC Selects: Vol. 2, London (2022).

Awards include the Creative Careers Prize from ArtIQ (2025) and the Prize for Outstanding Critical Engagement at City & Guilds of London Art School (2022).