Born in 1971, Colleen Corradi Brannigan completed her artistic studies in London, Tokyo and New York, where she has received enormous acclaim for her work on expressionism. Her art shows began in 1999 with a group show at the Covent Garden Flower festival in London, followed by numerous group and solo shows both in Italy and abroad. Noteworthy expressionist styles can be admired above all in her series of musical instruments and labyrinths executed in oils, watercolours as well as etchings.

However, it was with her architectural studies in a prominently surrealistic style that Colleen caught the attention of the Italian literary community as well as the international scientific community.

The encyclopaedia of Italian Literature, Ed. Luigi Einaudi chose her ‘Invisible Cities’ to illustrate the work of Italo Calvino (Vol.17).

The Spanish periodical of mathematical composition Suma+ (n. 61 June 2009) judged Corradi’s interpretation of the Invisible Cities of Calvino extraordinary in the way she incorporated mathematical aspects into some of them: the primordial urban characteristic of Trude; the reproduction of what is called reverse geometry in Valdrada; the fractal tridimensional configuration of Pentesilea; the helicoidal surface of Olinda.

Prominent Italian art critics  such as Paolo Levi have also acclaimed the works of this artist.

COLLEEN AND THE INVISIBLE CITIES

My first approach to the "Invisible Cities" came as a shallow indifference. Nothing more than part of a university programme to carry out; they remained dormant in my mind for years. Then, one day, in New York, while I was working on etchings of English castles that I was familiar with, Eudossia took form. That is how the dusty cities of the past came to life and set the foundations of imaginary worlds that I wished to create from the "English" designs. Now, each time my mind recalls the streets of the cities as described by Calvino, I get new inspirations from words that I had not noticed before or meanings that are open to new interpretations in a discovery that is never ending.

PUBLICATIONS

• "Appunti di Viaggio verso le città e i territori smart" by Luigi Pinchiaroglio (2015)
• "Urban Interventions" by Jovis Verlag.
• Suma+ Scientific Magazine - (n.61 Giugno 2009) - Las ciudades invisibles y el Arte. Colleen Corradi Brannigan
• Dai Sogni ai Sogni, Le Città Invisibili di Colleen Corradi Brannigan
• magazine article on Chizm 2013, Turkey
• Encyclopedia of Italian literature, images in volume 17 to accompany the works by Calvino. Publisher: Giulio Einaudi
• La città dialogante - Architectural magazine Opere 34
• L'architettura delle infrastrutture ipogee - by Riccardo dell'Osso - Publisher: Maggioli Editore
• Dialogue among civilizations, art and poetry - Art for Humanity
• Calendar "I Molisani" entirely illustrated by Colleen Corradi Brannigan - Published by University of Research and "Ordine dei Medici di Campobasso"
• "Discriminazione e violenza contro le donne" by Fiorenza Deriu and Mariagrazia Passuello - Book cover by Colleen Corradi Brannigan
• "L'arte e il torchio" , Treviso

ART SHOWS

• 2015