Joana Galego, Looking for Similar Things, 2024 (framed)
Mixed media on paper, 49.5 x 39cm
Portugese-born artist Joana Galego’s images are informed by – in her words – ‘memories and feelings rather than actual events’. Firmly rooted in drawing, her paintings and works on paper are characterised by a vibrant palette and a visual language partly inspired by historical artists including Piero de la Francesca and Paul Gaugin.
This new, unique, framed work on paper by Joana is part of our latest online collection and exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. The composition is typical of Joana’s complex imagery which uses changes of perspective and scale to create several different scenarios. A tearful, lone cocktail drinker, a huddled group of friends on the move, and a quiet, resting couple in the background create the feeling of motion alongside a sense of stillness.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says that this work explores ‘longing and searching for affection, some comfort and company. Fallen leaves and a curtain of blue to let out (or in) the feeling - a blanket to throw over the lonely body. Blue as a friend arriving with a blast of wind.’
Joana graduated from the University of Lisbon in 2016 and subsequently moved to London to attend the Royal Drawing School between 2016 and 2017. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in London and Portugal including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for which she was shortlisted in 2019. Solo exhibitions include ‘Spring and All’ at the Royal Drawing School, London, in 2019, and ‘Mole Lunar Sinal’ at Soho Revue in 2023. Joana has been awarded prizes including The Sir Denis Mahon Award from the Royal Drawing School (2017). She has undertaken artistic residencies in the USA, Portugal and India and her work is held in numerous private collections. She currently lives and works in south east London.
Mixed media on paper, 49.5 x 39cm
Portugese-born artist Joana Galego’s images are informed by – in her words – ‘memories and feelings rather than actual events’. Firmly rooted in drawing, her paintings and works on paper are characterised by a vibrant palette and a visual language partly inspired by historical artists including Piero de la Francesca and Paul Gaugin.
This new, unique, framed work on paper by Joana is part of our latest online collection and exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. The composition is typical of Joana’s complex imagery which uses changes of perspective and scale to create several different scenarios. A tearful, lone cocktail drinker, a huddled group of friends on the move, and a quiet, resting couple in the background create the feeling of motion alongside a sense of stillness.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says that this work explores ‘longing and searching for affection, some comfort and company. Fallen leaves and a curtain of blue to let out (or in) the feeling - a blanket to throw over the lonely body. Blue as a friend arriving with a blast of wind.’
Joana graduated from the University of Lisbon in 2016 and subsequently moved to London to attend the Royal Drawing School between 2016 and 2017. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in London and Portugal including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for which she was shortlisted in 2019. Solo exhibitions include ‘Spring and All’ at the Royal Drawing School, London, in 2019, and ‘Mole Lunar Sinal’ at Soho Revue in 2023. Joana has been awarded prizes including The Sir Denis Mahon Award from the Royal Drawing School (2017). She has undertaken artistic residencies in the USA, Portugal and India and her work is held in numerous private collections. She currently lives and works in south east London.
Mixed media on paper, 49.5 x 39cm
Portugese-born artist Joana Galego’s images are informed by – in her words – ‘memories and feelings rather than actual events’. Firmly rooted in drawing, her paintings and works on paper are characterised by a vibrant palette and a visual language partly inspired by historical artists including Piero de la Francesca and Paul Gaugin.
This new, unique, framed work on paper by Joana is part of our latest online collection and exhibition ‘Almost Blue’. The composition is typical of Joana’s complex imagery which uses changes of perspective and scale to create several different scenarios. A tearful, lone cocktail drinker, a huddled group of friends on the move, and a quiet, resting couple in the background create the feeling of motion alongside a sense of stillness.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says that this work explores ‘longing and searching for affection, some comfort and company. Fallen leaves and a curtain of blue to let out (or in) the feeling - a blanket to throw over the lonely body. Blue as a friend arriving with a blast of wind.’
Joana graduated from the University of Lisbon in 2016 and subsequently moved to London to attend the Royal Drawing School between 2016 and 2017. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group shows in London and Portugal including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize for which she was shortlisted in 2019. Solo exhibitions include ‘Spring and All’ at the Royal Drawing School, London, in 2019, and ‘Mole Lunar Sinal’ at Soho Revue in 2023. Joana has been awarded prizes including The Sir Denis Mahon Award from the Royal Drawing School (2017). She has undertaken artistic residencies in the USA, Portugal and India and her work is held in numerous private collections. She currently lives and works in south east London.
