Visual artist and editorial illustrator specializing in collage, analog and mixed media.

Her artistic path is an atypical and non-academic one. She discovered the practice of collage during childhood and then approached it again during the time of the pandemic, electing it as a privileged form of expression of her own artistic production. She loves the playfulness, the versatility, the democratic nature of this art, the possibility that it offers to create, through the dialogue between elements, a kaleidoscope of infinite visual narratives.

In a world dominated by digital, for Ottavia making analog collages represents a form of resistance to the role of passivity imposed by certain technology. Use the senses, recover the taste for manual skills to exercise critical and dynamic control over reality.

She has numerous collaborations with magazines as an illustrator (currently her contributions appear in Donna Moderna, Italy), group and personal exhibition. Her works, aimed at a constant openness to experimentation, are spontaneous, surreal, with a distinctly feminine and pop feel, often permeated with humour: they reflect her vision of her life and her approach to it.

Artworks published: Donna Moderna, weekly magazine, (March 2023 – present), Italy. Kolaj Magazine, World Collage Day Special Edition (May 2023), Canada. Oltre Collage, fanzine (May 2023); Italy. Suboart Magazine, art magazine (March 2023) Portugal. Sette, weekly add-on of Corriere della Sera newspaper (May 2022) Italy. Coollage/A Closer Look, collage book for children, Tintenkillers project, published by Komma No Ordinary Publisher (2022) Holland. Vision Magazine, contemporary art magazine (April 2022) Switzerland. SOLO ILLUSTRAZIONE/100 Italian illustrators, first edition, Psicografici Editore (2022) Italy. Echoes of Yesterday, collage book, Photo Trouvée Magazine project (2022). Contemporary Collage Magazine, art magazine, (September 2021, January 2022). Artful Memories (How to create unique art with old photographs), collage book,Jane Chipp and Jack Ravi project, (2021) UK.

Collaborations with Italian magazines and blogs (2021 – present): Malgrado le mosche, Bomarscé, Cedro Mag, L’Appeso, Spazinclusi, Quaerere, Salmace, Risme, L’Equivoco, La Seppia, Smezziamo Rivista, Il Rifugio dell’Ircocervo, Rivista Blam!, La Nuova Verdə, Birò, Spore, Il Fuco, Braccia Rubate.