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“Being a bit older now I’ve stopped trying to emulate other artists I admire and be more accepting of my natural style — a little bit shit but kind of funny. I guess, for better or worse, the Alma Singer works feel like they’re really me.” - Alma Singer
Medium Magazine
Art, Identity and Female Sexuality — Alma Singer is here to make you smile
At the beginning of 2023, 36 year old gallerist Carla Nizzola decided to pursue her love of making art using a pseudonym. Just six months on she has multiple upcoming solo exhibitions, a print release with Jealous Gallery and can be found at auction alongside Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Jeff Koons.
Whytt Magazine
Gallerist Carla Nizzola unleashes her alter ego Alma Singer for her series of playful paintings on the nuances of modern for debut show.While the works are simple, in just a year, the thirty-six-year-old has achieved tremendous success. Her scribbly drawings and witty aphorisms already have a cult following with prints available at renowned auction house Bonham’s and an exclusive collaboration with Jealous Gallery on the horizon.
The Big Issue
Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’
Inspired by conversations with her local vendor, she decided to donate proceeds from the sale of Everything Is Going To Be OK prints to support Big Issue’s work. “I thought it’d be fitting for Big Issue. I completely love what you guys do,” she explains.
Made In Shoreditch
With a background in fine art and a thriving career as a gallerist, Carla Nizzola has reclaimed her creative power through her alter ego, Alma Singer, crafting genuine and relatable artworks that captivate with their witty slogans, naïve yet endearing stick figures, and humorous social commentary.
The Times: Luxury Edition
How to buy a dinosaur. The must-have item for the super-rich is not a mega-yacht or sports car, but a dinosaur: the bigger and fiercer the better. Richard Askwith reports
Cambridge Edition: Arts and Culture
The latest exhibition from Extraordinary Objects Gallery celebrates these quintessentially British artists, proudly showcasing their sarcasm and irony. Our humour is what makes Britain great; we aren’t afraid to laugh at ourselves with self-deprecating distain or use our quick wit and wordplay to really jazz up a statement. These artists are no exception.
Love Cambridge - Hidden Gems
Meet The Owners: Where in Cambridge can you lay eyes upon a 68-million-year-old dinosaur skull alongside a Grayson Perry print? Extraordinary Objects gallery, of course. We meet founder Carla Nizzola, an avid collector of natural history and contemporary art.
National Geographic
Where art and science meet, there are dinosaurs. It can be a murky business.
Between movie stars, drug cartels, auction houses and artists chasing ‘stolen’ fossils, is science being monopolised out of the dinosaur trade?
The Telegraph
‘We could buy either a house or a dinosaur – needless to say, we bought the dinosaur’
The pranksters of contemporary art have gained both notoriety and celebrity fans, and are now making a radical return.
The Telegraph
Horn of Plenty: The skull of a Triceratops is wheeled into the Extraordinary Objects gallery in Cambridge ahead of a forthcoming exhibition Some Of My Best Friends Are Dinosaurs. Curated by artists The Connor Brothers with gallery director Carla Nizzola.
The Times
Saur point: A bisected skull of a triceratops, from the Cretaceous period and found in Wyoming, US, is on display at the Extraordinary Objects Gallery in Cambridge
Cambridge Independent
Triceratops establishes dominion in Green Street
Independent
Someone stole our dinosaur: The hunt for a 50-million-year-old skeleton. Written by Mike Snelle from The Connor Brothers.
Arts & Collections
Cambridge-based gallery, Extraordinary Objects, has opened a new exhibition celebrating the work of David Shrigley; a crude, contemporary and comical British artist, who is internationally recognised for his satirical, cartoonish ink drawings which observe everyday situations, human interactions and politics.
Velvet Magazine
The Art of Satire: Culture Vultures are in for a treat as a new exhibition by comical contemporary British artist David Shrigley promises to offer some light-hearted relief.
Cambridge Edition
Colourful Chaos: This brand new display of satirical, occasionally crude drwaings is characteristically chaotic and always light hearted.
Ed, the fossil skull of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur, gets a polish from Carla Nizzola, the founder of Extraordinary Objects, a new gallery in Cambridge. Weighing more than three tonnes, the Edomontosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived from 76 million to 65 million years ago. Image: JOE GIDDENS/PA
Arts & Collections
Eclectic Dreams: A new gallery in Cambridge combines contemporary art with extraordinary objects from nature. We talk to curator Carla Nizzola.
The Independent | Pictures of the Day
Open Wide: Carla Nizzola cleans “Ed”, a 68-million-year-old skull of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur which is part of the collection of artwork, sculptures, antiquities and natural history artefacts which features at the new Extraordinary Objects gallery in Cambridge.
The Scotsman
Different frames: A Banksy in three parts goes on display.
Cambridge Edition
Green Street has just become home to a unique art gallery. Extraordinary objects is as much as museum as it is an art gallery, providing Cambridge residents and visitors with a unique opportunity to examine and enjoy rare objects in the flesh.
Cambridge News
Gallery will take you on a journey though time. From a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite to one of Grayson Perry’s most recent works - Cambridge’s newest gallery doesn’t like to pigeonhole itself.
Velvet Magazine
Extraordinary Art: The new intriguing space, which celebrates curiosity and adventure, features a unique collection of artwork, sculptures, antiquities and natural history objects. Modern masterpieces sit alongside rare fossils, with each piece selected for the sense of wonder it evokes.
Arts & Collections
Extraordinary Objects on view in Cambridge: Introducing a new concept for art connoisseurs, collectors and the curious alike, a new gallery, Extraordinary Objects, has launched in Cambridge, UK, profiling a fascinating assembly of artwork, sculptures, antiquities and natural history objects.
Carla Nizzola cleans ‘Ed’, a 68 million-year-old skull of an Edmontonsaurus dinosaur which is part of the collection of artwork, sculptures, antiquities and natural history objects which features at the new Extraordinary Objects gallery in Cambridge. Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Ely Standard
A rare collection of art pieces made by Banksy are now on display at a new gallery in Cambridge.
Cambridge News
Gender disparity in art the focus of exhibition; all-woman show at city gallery highlights ‘shocking’ issue.
Cambridge Independent
Extraordinary all-female exhibition launched.
Cambridge Edition: Arts & Culture
The exhibition celebrates female creativity and the importance of giving voice to women in a traditionally male-dominated industry.