Andrea Daniela Ene/ Volume 100

Andreea Daniela Ene is a contemporary fine artist working across sculpture, performance, embroidery, and painting. The practice is rooted in a relationship to land and shaped by migration and movement across countries, particularly between Romanian and UK cultural contexts. Working in mixed media, the practice centres on interconnected approaches to thinking, remembering, and belonging, with a strong emphasis on sustainability within artistic processes. The work engages with questions of land—its significance, the meaning of belonging, and the consequences of disruption or loss. Land functions as both a physical presence and a metaphor for memory, heritage, and selfhood. Fragile, fragmented forms attempt to hold together roots from two places, addressing adaptation, preservation, rupture, and the necessity of deconstruction in order to rebuild. Romanian folk embroidery motifs play a central role, linking tradition with personal reclamation. This tactile and imperfect process acts as a quiet resistance to cultural disappearance, questioning how tradition survives and is performed. The work reflects the impact of disrupted systems on identity and embraces the paradox of belonging to multiple places while being fully claimed by none. Exhibitions include Reading Art Hub (ongoing since January 2026), Circular Art Space 22nd Community Art Exhibition (February 2026), Tete a Tete – Bucharest, Chinwe Russell Christmas Art Auction 2025, Calne Music & Arts Festival 2025, Ultra Artus RSA Finalist Exhibition 2025, Interim Egg and Spoon Competition RSA Reading 2025, and multiple exhibitions at Hypha Studios, including Tales of the Sea, Tales of the Land and the Entropy series (2024). Additional presentations include Spaces Between Worlds at The Rising Sun, Reading (2023), and Arachnophobia and Other Tales at Thames Tower, Reading (2023). Holding a Fine Art and English Literature degree, Ene has developed experience in curating, exhibition coordination, and community engagement, including developing concepts and curatorial briefs, securing funding, and supporting emerging artists. The practice is informed by collaborative projects and in-depth research into cultural and environmental themes, particularly diaspora and identity. Currently based in Wiltshire, Ene lives and works within a landscape that continually informs an exploration of place, identity, and sustainable artistic practice. The work exists within the tension between loss and growth, silence and articulation, and between dual origins without singular belonging—remaining open rather than resolved.

Locked up & Rupture

Natural wood, Wild clay, linen fabric, embroidery (red, blue and black), Natural paint on canvas fab

200x270x250cm, 2025

Locked up was a free-standing sculpture of dead branches screwed together, exploring how my cultural roots have been silenced. This time, embroidery only on new linen to clarify the message and imagery. Later, I destroyed this work in Rupture, reflecting the emotional complexity of navigating dual belonging. Through this destruction, I allowed space for vulnerability and reconstruction.