Independent visual practitioner and creative facilitator with 12+ years’ experience across education, public engagement, and industry. I use drawing as a live, participatory, and research-led practice, facilitating workshops, creating murals, and capturing complex conversations in real time through visual minutes. My training in visual minutes has developed a strong ability to rapidly understand complex briefs, synthesise ideas, and sketch with clarity in real time. Alongside this, I have extensive experience working across diverse sectors and client contexts, producing illustration work for books, covers, animations, murals, and commissioned projects, and adapting my visual language to both fast-paced and more refined, polished outcomes.

Federica Ciotti

Independent visual practitioner and creative facilitator with 12+ years’ experience across education, public engagement, and industry. I use drawing as a live, participatory, and research-led practice, facilitating workshops, creating murals, and capturing complex conversations in real time through visual minutes. My training in visual minutes has developed a strong ability to rapidly understand complex briefs, synthesise ideas, and sketch with clarity in real time. Alongside this, I have extensive experience working across diverse sectors and client contexts, producing illustration work for books, covers, animations, murals, and commissioned projects, and adapting my visual language to both fast-paced and more refined, polished outcomes.

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Independent visual practitioner and creative facilitator with 12+ years’ experience across education, public engagement, and industry. I use drawing as a live, participatory, and research-led practice, facilitating workshops, creating murals, and capturing complex conversations in real time through visual minutes.

My training in visual minutes has developed a strong ability to rapidly understand complex briefs, synthesise ideas, and sketch with clarity in real time. Alongside this, I have extensive experience working across diverse sectors and client contexts, producing illustration work for books, covers, animations, murals, and commissioned projects, and adapting my visual language to both fast-paced and more refined, polished outcomes.

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Language

Italian
Fluent
English
Advanced
French
Fluent

Work Experience

Independent visual practitioner and facilitator at Self-employed (UK & International)
January 1, 2010 - Present
Led creative workshops, participatory drawing sessions, and visual facilitation across education, healthcare, arts, justice, policy and research sectors. Developed murals, infographics, illustrations, animations, and communication strategies tailored to learning, engagement, and inclusion. Delivered projects for universities, cultural institutions, NGOs, public bodies and private sector clients. Specialized in working with complex or sensitive topics through co-design, storytelling, and visual mapping methods.
Artist & Facilitator at Royal College of Nursing
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2023
Facilitated a series of workshops exploring nurses’ lived experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The resulting mural, Doodle Wall, combined metaphor-based drawing and storytelling, and was exhibited as part of “Unmasked: Telling Real Nursing Stories” at the RCN Library and Heritage Centre.
Mural Artist & Workshop Facilitator at Bounce Back Social Enterprise
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2020
Led co-design workshops and mural projects in HMP Brixton and HMP High Down to improve the prison visiting environment for children and families. Projects included interactive artworks on astronomy, global geography, and historical invention timelines.
Artist & Workshop Leader at Jagriti Yatra
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017
Delivered participatory drawing workshops aboard a 15-day train journey visiting social enterprises across India. Used live scribing to support intercultural dialogue and collective storytelling.
Artist and Facilitator at Southbank Centre
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2016
Produced real-time visual maps for cultural events including Festival of Us, WOW Festival and Festival of Love, supporting staff and audience engagement and reflection through live visual facilitation.

Education

MA Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2025
MASemiotics at University of Bologna
April 1, 2005 - March 1, 2009
BA Communication Studies at University of Bologna
September 1, 2001 - March 1, 2005

Qualifications

DYCP Grant (UK) - Arts Council England
January 1, 2024 - December 21, 2025
Leonardo da Vinci Mobility Programme (EU) - Maison de Science de l’Homme
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2008

Industry Experience

Education, Healthcare, Government, Non-Profit Organization, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services