Messias Vertelli

Messias Vertelli was born in Castelo Branco, Portugal, and since an early age he started writing poetry and painting. “I used to spend a lot of time painting with my cousin, Jacinto, without realising that sometimes two days had passed and we were covered in paint with the same record having played over and over …”.
Eventually we decided to do an art show, and with hours of endless ideas and perhaps one more record or two, the artworks were finally on the wall. Our first show…”
My teenage years were fulfilled with music and painting, which led to me creating a radio program called ‘Dell Arte’ (Radio Beira Interior) and co-founding a music theatre show with Daniel Pires called “Pensamentos” (poetry/indie-classic music with two violins, one cello, one guitar, one bass, two vocal artists, two actors)”
England was where I wanted to experience, and gain more knowledge of, the work I so much admire …I worked and studied in London, and went on to Bristol to do my degree in Fine Art. I studied at The Faculty of Art & Design, Bower Ashton, UWE, where I obtained a BA(hons). This is where I got involved in music with Suv (Reprazent/Roni Size) and did poetry and vocals on his album ‘Follow the Sun’.”
Various exhibitions and projects ensued. On...

BA(hons) Fine Art
UWE BowerAshton, Bristol


A level and Art Foundation
Art&Design
Woolwich college
London