Barbara Raimondo

"I spent my childhood between layers..., layers of soil, the terraces, where my grandpa used to cultivate olive trees and vineyards, and layers of history defined by my home town, founded in the 4th century BC.
Layers of memories, layers of sentiments, layers of life, one on top of the other are infused in my pieces.

I have always had an urge to work with my hands, I guess because my grandpa was a farmer and I have seen him doing great things with his manual work. I see my hands as a powerful tool to shape the clay in raw forms and inspired by my roots and by the beauty left by the history of the places where I grew up".

After working several years in the financial sector, Barbara decided to follow her passion. Ceramic has always interested her, since she was a young. In 2017 she started to practice it again, searching for also her own expressions and style and at the end of 2019 she decided to dedicate herself to this activity, follow her passion, and becoming a full time ceramist.

Barbara comes from a small region in Italy, Liguria, a half moon of land set between the Mediterranean sea and the beautiful Appenino Ligure mountains.
The land is limited and to maximise it for agricultural purposes they used to build te...

Barbara obtained her degree in Economics and Banking Science at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in 1996. Following her passion for arts and design, in 2006 she pursued her study in photography with Bob Krieger at Filodrammatici in Milan and at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Communication and Visual Art department, in 2008.

Hong Kong: Tai Kwun, ‘East meets West’. Group Show. December 2021
Milan: Milan Design Week, ‘1000vases’. Group Show. September 2021
Hong Kong: Contemporary Crafts Centre, ‘Layers’. Solo Show. August 2021