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b.1984, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
EDUCATION
2015 - 2017 / MFA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London
2014 / CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Adults), Hampstead School of English, London
2004 – 2007 / BA (Hons) Illustration, University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone
2003 - 2004 / HND Graphic Design & Illustration, University for the Creative Arts at Maidstone
1999 – 2002 / General Course of Arts, Secondary Artistic School António Arroio, Lisbon
SOLO SHOWS
2021/ upcoming 'Mineriazur', performance at Jardim Azul, Emerge, Torres Vedras
2020/ Fraturização de Indivíduos Geológicos ou a era do Pixel 2.0, Galeria de Exposições do Espaço Turismo de Caldas da Rainha
2020/ Fraturização de Individuos Geológicos ou a era do Pixel, CIAB (Centro Interpretativo de Atouguia da Baleia), Peniche
2019/ Screening in 'Art and Ecology - new paradigms' talk of 'Flight of Innocense, flight of Ignorance'
at FIVAcc (Festival Internacional de Video Art) Cultivamos Cultura, São Luiz, Odemira
2019 /Fósseis Antropogénicos, ByMaM Galeria, Ferrel, Peniche
2018 /The Penelopena Radio Show [Extinction Edition], Centro de Inovação da Mouraria, Pop-up Shop, Lisboa
2018 /Why in Earth Would You?, Greenwhich West Arts Centre
2016 /Free, Photo Book Pop-up Shop Talk, London SouthBank University
2015 /Th(d)e Code and Sense, Waterloo Train Station, London
2015 /The Penelopena Radio Show, Copeland Park, Peckham
2014 /The Penelopena Radio Show, 92 WPL Crafts Market, Hackney Wick
2010 /O Saúl das Árvores e o Gato Pitó, Comic Books Library, Lisbon
2000 /Coliden, CCC, Olho Marinho, Portugal
GROUP SHOWS
2021/ upcoming at Espace Artistes Femmes, Lausanne
2020/Arte Desconfinada, Museu da Renda de Bilros de Peniche
2019/XXI Bienal de Artes Plásticas da Festa do Avante, Amora, Seixal
2018 /Wimbledon Shots, Wimbledon College of Arts
2017 /The book dispersed, October, Porto, Portugal
2017 /Signal to Noise, July, Hackney Wick, London
2017 /Odd Bod’s Collective, Raum Gallery, February, Camberwell, London
2017 /eARTh2, Central Saint Martins, February, King’s Cross, London
2016 /One year anniversary art show Deptford Does Art, December, The Brookmill, Deptford, London
2016 /In the Shadows of a Subterranean River, October, The Crypt Gallery, Euston, London
2016 /Everyone should paint a black square at least once in their lives, July, Raum Gallery, Camberwell, London
2016 /Responding to Space, April, Raum Gallery, Camberwell, London
2015 /Book Loop, December, Camberwell College of Arts Library, London
2015 /Ink and Bind, DecemberCamberwell College of Arts, London
2014 /Biders Bizarre, September, The Hatch, Homerton, London
2007 /Scrawlington, July, Air Gallery, Green Park, London
2000 /New Talent Painters, June, Centro Comercial Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
CURATION
2018 /Southern Navigators, arebyte Camberwell, London
2014 /9 till 2 at 92, Fun Times-Schwartz building, Hackney Wick, London
FAIRS
2021/ upcoming 'Feira de Arte', Torres Vedras
2018 / Feira de Autor, Parque D.Carlos I, Caldas da Rainha
2016 / London Radical Book Fair, Goldsmiths University, London
2016 / Liverpool Book Art, Central Library, Liverpool
2016 / London Rd Photobook Pop Up Shop, London Southbank University, London
2016 / DIY Cultures, Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London
2016 / Turn the Page, The Forum, Norwich
2016 / Pages, International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds
RESIDENCIES
2016 / Responding to Space, RAUM Gallery, Camberwell, London, April 2016
2009 / Sequential illustration with set making and teamwork, Studio Upstairs, Dalston, London
AWARDS
2020/ Portuguese Emerging Artists Publication, Emerge, Torres Vedras
2020/ 'Fraturização | Corroer', shortlisted for 'Portuguese Language Short Film Competition' at 26th International Festival of Environmental Cinema of Serra da Estrela
2018 / Clean Tech Enterprise, Institute for Global Prosperity Scholarship, University College London
2017 / Flow Sustainability Art Award
2017 / MEAD Fellowship, “The hybrid language of plantsongs” (shortlisted)
2001 / Philosophy Prize (2nd place), “What is beauty?”, Portuguese Catholic University
WRITING
2019/ currently writing for
2019 / Portuguese Small Press Yearbook 'The silence of the lambs or the ungrateful heroes of our time'
2018 / “Artistic devices and the ethical nature of recycling”, critical essay, JAWS (Journal of Art Writing by Students), volume 4.2, Intellect Ltd, volume 4, number 2, Intellect Ltd
2017 / “The dimensions of being literal”, review of Richard Moose’s exhibition ‘Incoming’ at the Barbican, JAWS (Journal of Art Writing by Students), volume 3, numbers 1&2, Intellect Ltd
Ferreira-Norman has books in the Comic Books Library Collection in Lisbon, Deptford Does Art and at the Chelsea Library Book Arts Collection. She is a published author and the principal editor of JAWS (the Journal of Arts Writing by Students) published by Intellect, Ltd. She writes for artecapital.net and collaborated with the Portuguese Small Press Yearbook.
Inês has been working in the Arts industry since 2007, having managed classical musicians' diaries, curated shows and concerts in underground, grass-root venues in Hackney Wick. She has worked with Raqib Shaw whilst he was represented by the White Cube, Pace New York and Thaddeus Ropac in Paris, and Alexandra Mir, by Tate Liperpool and Oxford Modern Art. More recently, she has coordinated and produced events for arebyte gallery at the Barbican. She has managed extensive communities of artists, mainly but not only in South London, and she helped setting up Trowbridge Gardens in Hackney Wick. Being an editor for a peer review journal on arts writing and her love for Ecology, made her set up her own venture in Portugal, where she has enough playgrounds to form an eco art diverse community of researchers and art professionals.