- Laura Caramelli lives and works in Florence.
- It was at the beginning of the Eighties that she began to tackle drawing from real life at the studio of Patrick Hamilton, concentrating on nudes especially, both with a classic approach and as an exploration of movement.
- Later on, she furthered her analysis of light en plein air, and subsequently attended the atelier of Aldo Londi where she was intrigued by the use of metal putties and resumed modelling terracotta. It was at this time that she attended the school of ceramics in Montelupo Fiorentino, with a special focus on the use of the potter’s wheel.
- A short time later she met Roger Partridge who introduced her to sculpting in stone and marble both in atelier and at the quarries of Pietrasanta.
- For several years she worked with Frances Raynolds, the artist to whom she attributes her approach to minimalism and working with wood as a primitive material.
- In 1994 she held a one-man sculpture exhibition at the Ceramics Museum of Montelupo Fiorentino (FI).
- She also collaborates with Pietro Antonio Bernabei, Primo Biagioni, and Jose Miguel Segui Gonzalez.
- In 2008, for the Olympic Games she was selected, along with 17 other Italian artists, to exhibit in the Forbidden City, at the Salon des Artistes Européens de Beijing.
- Recently she joined the Antica Compagnia del Paiolo in Florence and has collaborated in the illustrations of Maria Rita Montagnani’s book: Il grande ascoltatore.
- Currently she divides her time between painting and sculpture; her works revealing a new stylistic dimension in which, while not abandoning her taste for substance, she has evolved towards a formal minimalism centred around the profound symbolism of man.
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