Contact
Camila Barvo (b. Medellín, Colombia) is a London-based artist whose fibre-based practice explores gesture, structure, and material tension through processes including dyeing, braiding, knotting, and binding. Her work translates embodied gestures into sculptural environments.
Rooted in material exploration and personal memory, she uses handcraft techniques such as braiding and knotting as sculptural languages and performative gestures of storytelling.
Her Latin American cultural heritage permeates her work, where materials speak 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 sculptural languages and performative gestures of storytelling.
Her Latin American cultural heritage permeates her work, where materials speak 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 ‘The Filaments of a Memory’. Solo Show. Sarabande Foundation,
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 ‘invasive species’ Curated group show by Danielle Mezh at Hypha Studios, London
2026 ‘Entanglement’ Wyn Wine Collaboration at General Assembly, London
2026 ‘Anatomy of a Map’, Greatorex St Gallery, London
2026 ‘A line has time in it’, Carta Magna, 65a Charlotte St, London
2026 Collect Art Fair, UK Crafts Council, Somerset House, London
2026 ‘Mundane Shrine II’, One Paved Court Gallery, London
2026 The John Ruskin Prize, Shortlisted Artist’s Exhibition, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
2025 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2025 Made in Bed Magazine Featured Artist Exhibition, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
2025 Minor Attractions at Mandrake Hotel, House of Bandits Gallery, London
2025 ‘Finalist’s Exhibition,’ ACS Studio Prize x Gurr Johns, Group Show, West End, London
2025 ‘Sincerely,’ Curated exhibition at Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 ‘Embroidered Realities’. Curated exhibition, London Craft Week + BOUND Embroidery, London
2025 House of Bandits Gallery at Selfridges. Hosted by Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 ‘An Embroiderer’s Story’. Curated exhibition, BOUND Collective at The Brixton Department Store, London
2024 ‘and so the broken mend themselves’. Somers Gallery + LATAMesa, London
2024 ‘Innovative Sustainability’. Curated exhibition for Blackdot Gallery, London Design Festival
2024 ‘Crafting Identities’. Curated exhibition at The Royal College of Art, London
2024 ‘Textiles in the Making’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art, London
2024 ‘Sustain Lab Annual Exhibition’. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery. Royal College of Art, London
2021 ‘Volaran’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University, Bogotá
2018 ‘Andando’. Sala de Exposiciones Julio Mario SD, Los Andes University, Bogotá
RESIDENCIES
2026 Soho Revue Studio Residency
2025 House of Bandits x Selfridges, invited one-day residency
2024/25 Sarabande Foundation: Est. by Lee Alexander McQueen
2026 Soho Revue Studio Residency
2025 House of Bandits x Selfridges, invited one-day residency
2024/25 Sarabande Foundation: Est. by Lee Alexander McQueen
AWARDS
2026 John Ruskin Prize, Shortlisted Artist
2025 Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize. Finalist
2025 Visual Arts Open, Longlisted Artist
2024 UK Textile Society. Postgraduate Award, Highly Commended
BURSARIES & FUNDING
2026 John Ruskin Prize, Shortlisted Artist
2025 Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize. Finalist
2025 Visual Arts Open, Longlisted Artist
2024 UK Textile Society. Postgraduate Award, Highly Commended
BURSARIES & FUNDING
2025 Professional Development Programme. New Platform. Art
2025 The Eaton Fund
2025 The Eaton Fund
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