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Marina Patalano is a multidisciplinary designer and artist based in London, currently completing her Masters in Fashion at the Royal College of Art. As a practising magician and spiritualist, her work aims to narrate stories; cautionary, existential, and mythical. New narratives shed light on the experiential, clandestine wonder; encompassing her own experiences and involving others in this journey. Through her stage performance and spiritual work and specialising in solely using vintage fabrics and materials, her intention is to preserve storytelling, folklore and craft, as well as offering guidance towards self-actualisation and healing. Drawing on the folklore and traditions of Marina’s Italian heritage, her practice explores conversations with the dead through art, utilising artistic practice to communicate the most unseen thing that surrounds us all, and the phenomena of her late mother being her current teacher. Marina is a recipient of the Burberry Design Scholarship.