Luisa Mascaro Pons

I am an interdisciplinary practitioner, printmaker, and painter whose work also extends into ceramics and sculpture. I experiment with various techniques and express myself using a wide range of materials and processes. Through the intuitive nature of my work, the element of discovery is of the most significance, allowing accidents and mistakes to occur. Although, sometimes I deliberately provoke them, my interest is to develop flexible thinking and to improve my visual language challenging at the same time the hegemony of the two-dimensional art disciplines.
Often my interest revolves around the simplification of abstract forms that arise from the interpretation of the figurative image. A process that, I believe, allows the viewer to make their own interpretation of a piece of art. I strive to create a space where the public can interact with their imagination and realize the fictionality of the perception created by our unconscious.
My work is an ever-evolving process, it can start with collages made up of discarded defective prints, or it can derive from collected, exhibition, ephemera. I manipulate my elements, choose one print, and work in various ways. I dissolve, push, pull, deconstruct, construct, and collapse the image ...

2021-2023 MA at RCA. London
2020-2021 MA at Camberwell College of Arts. London
2019-2020 Graduate diploma at RCA
2018-HNC Kensington and Chelsea College. London
2014 -2015: Drawing and Etching: Prince drawing school: LONDON
2011-2013 The International School of Graphic Art Il Bisonte. Florence
2009-2011 Painting and Drawing Lorenzo de Medici International Institute. Florence
2003-2004: Short courses in Painting and drawing. School of Visual Arts- NY
2000-2001 Foundation course- Central Saint Martins.London
1993-1997 Ceramic. Llotja Art School- Barcelona

2024: BABE, Bristol artist book event at UWE Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK
2024: Between Nothing and Not a Thing, z_e_p_h_y_r_s Gallery, Oxford
2024: Gasp 2, Worldly Wicked & Wise Gallery, London
2023: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2023: Ego Dialogue, Greatorex Street Gallery, London
2023: RCA 2023, Truman Brewery Gallery, London
2023: The Shadows We Cast, Kopel Project
2022: The Damage Is Done, Pump House Gallery, London
2021: Regroup, No Format Gallery, London
2021: MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase, South London Gallery, London
2021: Unmute, Copeland Gallery, London
2019: Above the Ballet, Kensington and Chelsea College of Art, London
2018: Expanded Field of Drawing, Slade University, London
2016: Digging In, Branching Out, Kew Gardens, London
2015: Group Show, Number 57 Art Gallery, London
2014: Solo Presentation, Packs Gallery, Vienna
2014: BCN Art Fair, Casa Batllo, Barcelona
2014: Group Show, Brick Lane Gallery, London
2011: Group Show, Archivio Storico, Florence