About
I am a Brazilian contemporary visual artist, born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1992, and currently based in London. I hold a BA (Hons) in Fashion Branding and Communications from the University for the Creative Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from Kingston School of Art.
My creative practice explores the intersections of Black and intersectional feminism, migration, spirituality, and freedom of expression. Having spent part of my childhood in Brazil before moving to Portugal and later London, my experiences of migration have shaped my understanding of belonging, cultural identity, and ancestry.
Painting is central to my practice, often taking the form of a personal ritual. Working primarily with watercolour, ink, acrylic, and oil pastels, while exploring oil painting, I use bodily gestures, movement, and intuitive mark-making to create organic forms. Pencil drawings serve as a space for developing ideas, while sound, vibration, and meditative practices inform my painting process. My work moves between the conscious, subconscious, and instinctive, drawing from lived experiences, spiritual encounters, and the oneiric landscapes of dreams.
Alongside this intuitive process, my practice is grounded in a conscious engagement with the social and political structures that shape our identities. Through questions of gender, sexuality, race, class, and patriarchal expectations, I examine the limitations imposed upon women and marginalised bodies. As an Afro-Latin American artist from a working-class background, I use my work to question these narratives and negotiate my own freedom of expression. My background in fashion and fine art informs this dialogue, with clothing and personal style extending my creative language beyond the canvas.
My relationship with spirituality and ancestry is equally significant. My Brazilian heritage carries both African and Indigenous roots, although aspects of my Indigenous ancestry remain unknown to me. This tension between inherited memory and fragmented histories informs my ongoing exploration of belonging. Through Afro-Brazilian spiritual traditions, I maintain a connection to home that exists beyond geographical distance, allowing ritual and ancestral knowledge to become part of my artistic language.
Ultimately, I understand painting as both a ritual and an act of resistance, a space where personal experience, political consciousness, and spiritual expression coexist.