Isabel Quaresma

I was born in Lamego, a litle city on north of Portugal, on the Douro Valley, and currently i work and live in Oporto. My work is about the intersection between textile and the other artistic camps as painting, scupture, drawing and video. I´m using textile as conducting thread to the ideas, processes, or to the materials. I like the idea of bring textile to fine arts it have a tension of being at the same time funcional and a work of art. For me using textile as a medium has become someting where many points come together and i can talk about things as time, memory, conections. I dedicated my master degree in studing the interseccion between drawing and textile and the performatives qualities of drawing informed by the gestures of textiles processes . We all know the resemblense betwween the line and thread, in my drawings these line is more like a thread that be part of a my intimate caligraphie. The materials are very importante for me, and the sense of touch tels me every thing about how these material have to be eworked, transformed in some thing diferent. I love to work in a continuos process and i like when one thing leding to another.

Fine Arts degree in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto (FBAUP) in the area of Painting, where she concluded her Masters in Drawing and Print Making, focusing her investigation on the intersection between Drawing, Textile and Body. She also have a course in Fashion and Textile Design, at CITEX, and studed Weaving at Fashion Academy of Florence.

2002 – Para além de Ômega e.. Arredores – Espaço Ilimitado, Arte Contemporânea, Porto.

2003 – A Teia do Mundo – Novais Leão e Associados, Porto.

2004 – Crueza e Outros Pensamentos Felizes, Três no Castelo, Porto

2005 – Torso, Rivoli Café Concerto. Porto

2006 – Participação na Arte Lisboa, Feira de Arte Contemporânea, stand da Galeria Trindade.

2007 – Cores Bravias – Galeria Trindade, Porto.

2008 – Participação na arte Lisboa- Stand da Galeria Trindade.

2008 – Colectiva – Cadeiras \ Objecto- Galeria Trindade Porto.

2009 - Silêncio ou as Variações de Goldberg – Galeria Trindade, Porto.

2009 – Colectiva no Auditório Musical de Espinho.

2010 – Bichos – Artes em Partes, Porto.

2010 – Participação na Arte Lisboa, Stand da Galeria Trindade.

2011 - Art Mail, Porto \ Aras- Galeria da Cozinha, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

2011- Quatro + Três – Banco Santander Totta , Porto.

2011 –Arte no Escuro, Galeria dos Leões, Porto.2011 – Unir Pontos – Galeria da Cozinha, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.

2011 – Exposição Colectiva – Têxteis Construídos na Escola Artística Soares dos Reis. Porto.

2011 – Projeções 2011 O Desenho da FBAUP, Lugar do Desenho Fundação ...