Born in Ravenna (Northern Italy) in 1979, Patrizio studied English Literature at the University of Bologna. In 2003 he moved to Edinburgh, where he became a member of Edinburgh Printmakers in 2005.
He is currently in his third year of studying Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art.

He has exhibited his work in the following shows:
Featured Artist: Patrizio Belcampo – Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
113th SSA Annual Open Exhibition – RSA, Edinburgh
183rd Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition (Winner of Keith Prize for best work by a student) - RSA, Edinburgh
Winter Exhibition - Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Art Walk – The Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Inkubator II – DLI Museum and Art Gallery, Durham
Printworks – Amber Arts, Edinburgh
Print Factory – Owl and Lion, Edinburgh
Out of the Blue – Mainhill Gallery at Harestanes, Ancrum, Jedburgh
New Works by Patrizio Belcampo – Amber Arts, Edinburgh
Silhouettes – ECA, Edinburgh
Affordable Art Fair – (Mainhill Gallery) Battersea Park, London
ECA Does Titian – ECA, Edinburgh
Winter Show – Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Zoo – Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh.

Statement
“My work is always a dialogue with the manmade. It originates from a sense of wonder at all the ‘stuff’ that we have made, and from my fascination with the meanings we have attached to it.

Whether it receives its impulse from a text, an image or an artistic tradition, it is about re-visiting, ‘appropriating’ and re-presenting some of the figures and ideas found in human culture.

These I believe can be made to resonate again and again by means of a free, intimate re-creation, one that is not constrained by concerns of universality and philological exactitude.

As I plunder my cultural heritage in search of something meaningful and beautiful, I favour a lively inaccuracy of approach: it is by distortion, as it were, that new traditions are created.

A lasting image is a rare thing to lure out of one’s imagination; its symbolic potential is hybrid, open and non-prescriptive. The quest for one such image is what motivates my work”.

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