Allegra is an artist and designer who trained in Milan and New York, and now splits her time between London and Naples. Known for her eye for patterns, Allegra attributes her inspiration to the world around her, building from the colours and transforming forms found in nature. Beginning her career in fresco painting, today Allegra continues to respect the fluidity of watercolour across a wide range of media, from paintings to tapestries to rugs to cast bronze and metal work, investigating the diaphanous bridge between art and design.

Allegra has recently showcased her work in several notable exhibitions. In October 2024, her exhibition “La Ginestra e il Vesuvio” inspired by Giacomo Leopardi’s poem “La Ginestra”, was held at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, featuring eight multimedia pieces, including tapestries and sculptures. Her installation “Upon My Blood I Will Carry You”, exploring themes of life, death, and spirituality through a striking blood-red installation, was showcased in Palermo in 2024 at the Church of S. Euno e Giuliano Church of S. Euno e Giuliano, and previously in Naples at the Chiesa della Misericordiella (2023).

In 2022 for the Italian Glass Week in Venice, Allegra created a 63-square-meter tapestry of painted linen embroidered with Murano glass beads, blending her textiles with Venetian glass traditions. The piece, reflecting on the flux of life and boundaries between “inside” and “outside,” was also presented in London at the Italian Institute of Culture in March 2023.

As part of the EDIT Cult programme in Naples in 2022 Allegra exhibited her silk tapestry  “Divinazione” at the Church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo. “Lucielle,” created for EDIT cult  2023, was a site-specific installation blending Neapolitan religious tradition with contemporary design. Featuring porcelain elements symbolizing an almond and an eye, it honors Santa Lucia and bridges spirituality with modern aesthetics. In 2024 she presented “L’uovo di Partenope” at the Ipogeo dei Cristallini as part of EDIT Cult program. Inspired by the Neapolitan legend of the siren Parthenope and the mythical egg hidden beneath Castel dell’Ovo, the installation reflects on the fragility of beauty and its preservation, resonating with the underground setting of the Ipogeo.