Raquel Figueira (she/her) works across drawing, painting, installation and writing. Her research focuses on the intersections of politics and aesthetics, informed by feminist, decolonial and queer currents in social and ecological thought.
Her practice is led by improvisation in order to investigate how impulse, precarity and adaptation might shape possible worlds and relations, visual and otherwise. Often economical in their language and materiality, her works engage with an expanded notion of drawing where minor, fugitive gestures question hegemonic systems of value.
Bio
Raquel Figueira was born in Lisbon, Portugal and is based in London, UK. A graduate of Goldsmiths (University of London) and Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), her work has been exhibited in various galleries including recent group shows ‘It Rose and It Fell’ at Terrace Gallery, ‘In Formation’ at Thames-side Studios Gallery, and ‘In Response’ at The Nunnery Gallery, London. She completed the TURPS Correspondence Course and was an artist-in-residence at Cel Del Nord in Oristà, Spain, in 2022. She is currently a Lecturer in Visual Culture at LABASAD.
Contact
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figueira.raquel@gmail.com
@raquel__figueira
Education
2022 – 2024
MA Sociology - Cultural Analysis
Goldsmiths, University of London
2008 – 2010
MA Illustration
Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London
2005 – 2008
BA Graphic Design
Escola Superior Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Group exhibitions
It Rose and It Fell, 2024, Terrace Gallery, London, UK;
Painting Open, 2023, No Format Gallery, London, UK;
Material Presence, 2022, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK;
In Formation, 2022, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK;
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, 2021, cohort.art;
In Response, 2021, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK;
Who Are We, 2019, The Trampery, London, UK;
Hackney Wicked, 2019, The Old Peanut Factory, London, UK;
Inside Out, 2017, Here East, London, UK;
Open, 2015, Hackney Downs Studios, London, UK;
Chelsea Salon Series, 2012, Round Chapel, London, UK;
The Everyday, 2011, Marsden Woo Gallery, London, UK;
CSM MA Show, 2010, A Foundation Gallery, London, UK;
Twenty Ten, 2008, Westminster Library, London, UK.
Residencies
2022
Cel del Nord, residency in Oristà, Spain
2021 – 2022
Turps Correspondence Course
2021
Cel del Nord, online residency
Teaching
2024
Lecturer in Visual Culture
Online Master in Art Direction at LABASAD,
Barcelona School of Arts and Design
2017
Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration
BA Visual Communication at Limkokwing University,
London