Joao Trindade

1975 Oporto Portugal
lives in London
I paint because its the only way I can be true to myself.
A neo vorticist work

Fabricating dreams, redeeming myself with the holy and exorcising ghosts this is how it all started.I love the unbalance, the discontinuity, the rupture, the contrast, the sensorial and also to represent universes and an escape from the centre: giving paintings different and endless perspectives, in other words, I create a number of inside framings that can make the viewer rest his eyes while looking at my work.Almost everything can become an inspiration for me because everything has a secret structure. I just keep falling in love with the foundation lines of the city and of the human body.One of my biggest challenges is trying to make people engage with my work, trying to avoid indifference and therefore create in them some kind of reaction. That is probably why my works seem to escape the symmetry and the expected.

The creative process:I take hundreds of photos of everything I grab from the outside world, rummaging through images until I find the right one for a particular work.Besides canvas sometimes my materials are what I can collect, usually whatever has been dumped or disposed, recycling it into a...

Degree in Design from Escola Superior de Artes e Design,

Reading Contemporary Artfair 2011

Notting Hill Mayfest, St John's Church

east gallery london U.K July 2010

el corte ingles - vila nova de Gaia Portugal nov 2010

Dalston boys club 100sqft Nov 2010

candid arts dec 2010

10 gales gallery 2010