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Biography of RAQUEL MARTINS
I was born in Mozambique in 1961. Fleeing my country in 1974, just after the collapse of the colonial empire, I arrived in Johannesburg and resided there until 1982. In 1982, I moved to Portugal where I work and reside. It was not until 2001 when I began exploring painting as a form of expression as a full-time painter, and as a professional artist. For the past three years my work has centred around figurative paintings ranging from a nearly abstract suggestion of form to a stylized graphic treatment.
Today, I live and work in Palmela.
Artworks are represented at: Amoreiras Art Gallery - Lisbon Galeria SERVARTES - Porto ARTESPAÇO - Porto Galeria de Arte Luís Madureira - Sintra Galeria OWO - Shopping Brasília - Porto Galeria Paleta - Lisbon Galeria El Corte Inglés - Lisbon
Education
1990-2000 Took commissions for portraiture and figurative paintings. Today I paint full time.
2006 - Galeria STA. TERESA, Setubal 2005 - Telecom Picoas, Lisbon Garcia de Orta, Almada 2004
– Galeria
d’Arte DeDois, Vilamoura Galeria d’Arte DeDois, Lisbon 2003 –
Telecom, June,
Lisbon Galeria Arte & Mar, Sesimbra Galeria
de Arte Respública, Santarem
Telecom, October, Lisbon 2002
– Arte & Mar, Sesimbra ARS Pictorica, Lisbon 2001 - ARS Pictorica - Lisbon 1993
– Laitau, Setúbal 1985
– Pombal
"Diversidades" - Ordem dos Médicos PortoSUMMER 2007 EXHIBITION Blackheath Gallery - London Grupo Art Portugal - Edificio Central do Municipio - Camara Municipal de Lisboa"Colectiva de Pintura" - Galeria OWO - Porto "Colectiva de Artes" Galeria Santa Teresa - Setubal 2007 - "MODOS DE VER" Galeria Santa Teresa - Setubal
Chicago Art Matrix Gallery - Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
Centro Cultural da Nazaré - Nazaré 2nd ANNUAL NATIONAL SELF-PORTRAIT EXHIBITION - 33 COLLECTIVE GALLERY - Chicago "Artists of May", GALERIA STA. TERESA, Setubal SERVARTES - Porto 2006 - "SHE" Juried Exhibition - 33 COLLECTIVE GALLERY - Chicago
Galeria Zero - Winter's Juried Exhibition - Barcelona Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea - Florence Ordem dos Médicos - Porto Art Portugal Group - Olivais Shopping Center, Espaço Portugal Fair of Antiquities and Works of Art - Lisbon Congress Center Sici - International Madrid Design Fair 2005 - 48th International Exhibition - San Diego Art Institute 2004 - Rotary
Club of Sesimbra
I International Exhibition of Fine Arts of
Sesimbra
Finalist - Intensity 2004 Artrom International Juried Exhibition - Roma, Italia 2003
– Associação Rosa Cruz, Lisbon
Biblioteca Municipal Camões - Lisbon
Arte & Mar, Sesimbra 2002
– Galeria Arte & Mar, Sesimbra Nova Imagem Gallery,
Lisbon City Hall Arruda dos Vinhos Arte & Mar - Sesimbra 2001
– Nova Imagem gallery, Lisbon 1984 – Salão de Outono,
Casino Estoril
1979
- City Hall, Johannesburg 1975 - Arts Festival, Bedfordview
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