Marina Collard 

Marina Collard is a British/Italian artist based in London, who works in choreography, painting, video and performance. Her performance and video work is gently disruptive, humorous and absurd - foregrounding playful qualities with rigorous execution. Present on her paintings is a tension between structure and movement, pathos and wit, strangeness and the everyday. 

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Marina's work in underpinned by a long history of somatic investigatory practice within the filed of contemporary dance and choreography. She has taught internationally in professional and educational/conservatoires settings including Trinity Laban, London Contemporary Dance School and Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. 

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Having spent her early childhood in Italy, Marina returned in 2021, completing an MFA in Fine Arts: Painting at Rome University of the Fine Arts in 2023. She has presented solo and collaborative work in performance and exhibition contexts internationally, including solo shows at Fondazione Ricci Barga (LU) 2025 and at Progetto Esthia in Rome 2021, and group shows at La Nuova Pesa Gallery in Rome and at Castello di Rocca Sinibalda (RI) 2023. 

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