Roberta De Caro

About

Roberta De Caro is a multi-disciplinary artist of Italian origins based in London.

De Caro’s artwork often deals with the impact of social injustice on people’s psyche. She researches the making process as an opportunity for repair through material engagement. She creates installations, sculptures and works on paper and also runs participatory art events, performances and socially engaged art projects. 

She is supported by the Marit Rausing Scholarship for an MA in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art 2023/24. 

De Caro started out as a self-taught glass artist in 2011, when she set up her own glass studio. In 2019, she received a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (CGLAS), and was awarded a number of prizes including the CGLAS 2019 Sculpture Prize, the Beckwith scholarship and Travel Prize, the Philip Connard Travel Prize and twice the Student Initiated Project Prize that she used to fund two separate socially engaged art projects. She was also offered a scholarship for a postgraduate course at CGLAS. She completed an MA in Art & Material Histories with distinction in October 2021.

In February 2022 she received Arts Council England’s funding to run From the Fragment to the Whole (2020, ongoing) – a socially engaged art project that explores glass as a metaphor for surviving domestic abuse. After a successful exhibition at Espacio Gallery (London) in July 2022, she was awarded a second Arts Council England grant to expand the project in 2023.  She recently ran an event in collaboration with Hackney Council in March 2024 and is planning an exhibition later in the year.

In 2022/23 De Caro was offered a two-year Fellowship in the glass department at CGLAS, where she will return in 2024/25 after completing her postgraduate studies at the RCA.