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CAMILA BARVO
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.




SELECTED EXHIBITIONS



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 May - June. ‘The Filaments of a Memory’
. Solo Show. Sarabande Foundation


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 May.
‘Embroidered Realities’. Curated exhibition for London Craft Week + BOUND Embroidery

2025  Jan - Mar. House of Bandits Gallery at Selfridges. Hosted by Sarabande Foundation

2025  January. ‘An Embroiderer’s Story’. Curated exhibition at The Brixton Department Store +
BOUND Embroidery


2024  October. ‘and so the broken mend themselves’. Somers Gallery + LATAMesa


2024  September. ‘Innovative Sustainability’. Curated exhibition for Blackdot Gallery,
London Design Festival

2024  July. ‘Crafting Identities’. Curated exhibition at The Royal College of Art

2024  May. ‘Textiles in the Making’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art

2024  May. ‘Sustain Lab Annual Exhibition’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art

2021  September. ‘Volaran’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University

2018  September. ‘Andando’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University





RESIDENCIES

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. Shortlisted Artist

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’  




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