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Camila Barvo is a Colombian artist based in London whose practice explores femininity, identity, and cultural memory through textile processes and fibre soft sculpture.
Rooted in material exploration and personal memory, she uses handcraft techniques such as braiding and knotting as performative gestures of storytelling. Through immersive installations and tactile forms, she creates sculptural languages that are both intimate and expansive.
Her Latin American cultural heritage permeates her work, where materials speak as eloquently as form. fique, jute, and coffee dyes frequently appear in her pieces, not merely as raw materials, but as living symbols of Colombia’s rich textile legacy, celebrating its material tradition. Currently based in the UK, she has been working with local wool fibres to expand her material research.
Rooted in material exploration and personal memory, she uses handcraft techniques such as braiding and knotting as performative gestures of storytelling. Through immersive installations and tactile forms, she creates sculptural languages that are both intimate and expansive.
Her Latin American cultural heritage permeates her work, where materials speak as eloquently as form. fique, jute, and coffee dyes frequently appear in her pieces, not merely as raw materials, but as living symbols of Colombia’s rich textile legacy, celebrating its material tradition. Currently based in the UK, she has been working with local wool fibres to expand her material research.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
May - June. ‘The Filaments of a Memory’. Solo Show. Sarabande Foundation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Sept, ‘Finalist’s Exhibition,’ ACS Studio Prize x Gurr Johns, Group Show, West End, London
Aug, ‘Sincerely,’ Curated exhibition at Sarabande Foundation, London
May. ‘Embroidered Realities’. Curated exhibition for London Craft Week + BOUND Embroidery, London
Jan - Mar. House of Bandits Gallery at Selfridges. Hosted by Sarabande Foundation, London
Jan. ‘An Embroiderer’s Story’. Curated exhibition by BOUND Collective at The Brixton Department Store, London
2024
Oct. ‘and so the broken mend themselves’. Somers Gallery + LATAMesa, London
Sept. ‘Innovative Sustainability’. Curated exhibition for Blackdot Gallery, London Design Festival
July. ‘Crafting Identities’. Curated exhibition at The Royal College of Art, London
May. ‘Textiles in the Making’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art, London
May. ‘Sustain Lab Annual Exhibition’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art, London
2021
Sept. ‘Volaran’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University, Bogotá
2018
Sept. ‘Andando’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University, Bogotá
RESIDENCIES
2025 House of Bandits x Selfridges, invited one-day residency
2024/25 Sarabande Foundation: Est. by Lee Alexander McQueen
2025 House of Bandits x Selfridges, invited one-day residency
2024/25 Sarabande Foundation: Est. by Lee Alexander McQueen
AWARDS & FUNDING
2025 Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize. Finalist
2025 Visual Arts Open, Longlisted Artist
2025 The Eaton Fund
2024 UK Textile Society. Postgraduate Award, Highly Commended
2025 Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize. Finalist
2025 Visual Arts Open, Longlisted Artist
2025 The Eaton Fund
2024 UK Textile Society. Postgraduate Award, Highly Commended
PUBLICATION
2025 Sarabande Foundation, Studio Interview for ‘The Filaments of a Memory’ Solo Show
2025 Made in Bed, Sotheby’s Institute Magazine, Camila Barvo Emerging Artist Interview
2025 Revista Exclama, Exclama Presenta video feature and article, ‘Los Filamentos de una Memoria’ Exposición Individual de Camila Barvo en La Fundación Sarabande
2024 Embroidery Magazine Vol. 75 Nov/Dic Issue. ‘Meet The Bound Collective’
2025 Diario El Clarín, Revista N. ‘La mesa como una instancia de reunión: redes de artistas lationamericanos en Londrés’
2025 Sarabande Foundation, Studio Interview for ‘The Filaments of a Memory’ Solo Show
2025 Made in Bed, Sotheby’s Institute Magazine, Camila Barvo Emerging Artist Interview
2025 Revista Exclama, Exclama Presenta video feature and article, ‘Los Filamentos de una Memoria’ Exposición Individual de Camila Barvo en La Fundación Sarabande
2024 Embroidery Magazine Vol. 75 Nov/Dic Issue. ‘Meet The Bound Collective’
2025 Diario El Clarín, Revista N. ‘La mesa como una instancia de reunión: redes de artistas lationamericanos en Londrés’
EDUCATION
2024 Master in Textiles. Royal College of Art. London, UK
2021 Major in Design. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, COL
Minor in Textile Design. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, COL
2024 Master in Textiles. Royal College of Art. London, UK
2021 Major in Design. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogotá, COL
Minor in Textile Design. Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, COL