Ms. Marmara is especially good at unearthing ‘visual gold’ - […] unsung design elements, photo shoots or ads (The New York Times: All Good Magazines Go To Heaven)
Alexia Marmara is a writer, researcher, curator, archivist and artist specialising in uncovering and celebrating the uncelebrated.
Contributing writer: A Women's Thing, Up Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca
I provide visual and written research through rare archival imagery and journalism. Vast experience in copywriting, translating and editing in French and English. Perfectly bilingual.
Selected research projects: Agnes Questionmark, Malta Biennale, Google Pixel, Furmaan Ahmed, 20XX, i-Dentity Podcast, Indépendantes de Cœur, Nice Outfit Magazine, Another Man Magazine, Nikolai Von Bismark, Terrible Magazine, Rebekah Bide, Valentino, Riccardo Zanola...
Previous: Archive manager and head of research at HYMAG, The World's Largest Magazine Collection and the Edda Tasiemka Archive. [Clients include: V&A, Dior, The Design Museum, Somerset House, Southbank Centre, Nieuwe Instituut, BBC, Middlesex University, Bottega Veneta, Selfridges...] / creator of research and interview-based radio show Maestra (Know-Wave Radio)
I provide archival consultation and assistance.
For three years I was half of the programming team for events and exhibitions at The Horse Hospital.This includes outsourcing and curating weekly events and shows & responding to proposals. For 30 years, The Horse Hospital has been a home to the avant-garde and the unconventional. Our events reflected the building and gallery’s unique mission.
I have given talks and lectures at Dover Street Market Paris, The Horse Hospital, Casa Lu Sur, Middlesex University, University of Cusco, Peru.More...