Andy Trema

ANDY TREMA – Francesca Mele (Galatina, LE – 1982) lives and works in Rome. 

In his alter ego there is a polyphonic creative universe, where the visual arts meet music. After graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Lecce, between 2006 and 2012 he started his career as a musician with the band Lola and the Lovers and then with the solo project Malva. During this period she collaborated on the production of music videos as costume designer, set designer and video maker. An enthusiastic feminist, she actively participates in the independent scene of the capital and from 2017 she creates illustrations, ceramics and customised garments, in collaboration with brands and labels sensitive to these themes. In this perspective, in 2022 she created the project This is Pink (Castello Volante, Corigliano d’Otranto – LE) and founded Make Me, a collective of only illustrators that she curates today. In the same year she returned to painting with new inspiration and started a very intimate production, which in 2023 opened the doors of the Symposium of Painting at the residence Lac or Le Mon (Casa Cafausica – San Cesareo, LE). In 2024 he continued his research and took part in the collective Schiaparelli Pink (Chiostro delle Clarisse di Noci, BA.