Joana Galego, Skin Mirror, 2024 (framed)
Acrylic, watercolour and mixed media on paper, 74 x 60cm
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’. Combining paint with pen, charcoal and and pastel, the work features layering and collage. It is typical of Joana’s complex compositions which use changes of perspective and scale to create several narratives.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says; ‘There’s a woman looking after a man, maybe a mother caring for his son, or two lovers, or perhaps a woman braiding another woman’s hair, or perhaps just two people, one caressing the other’s head. Meanwhile, everyone else is looking at their own reflection on bodies of water. I called this work ‘Skin mirror’ because I like to think the two figures at the front are seeing their reflection too, but on each other. Something to do with remembering how similar we are. Or acknowledging we are not that different.’
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.
Acrylic, watercolour and mixed media on paper, 74 x 60cm
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’. Combining paint with pen, charcoal and and pastel, the work features layering and collage. It is typical of Joana’s complex compositions which use changes of perspective and scale to create several narratives.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says; ‘There’s a woman looking after a man, maybe a mother caring for his son, or two lovers, or perhaps a woman braiding another woman’s hair, or perhaps just two people, one caressing the other’s head. Meanwhile, everyone else is looking at their own reflection on bodies of water. I called this work ‘Skin mirror’ because I like to think the two figures at the front are seeing their reflection too, but on each other. Something to do with remembering how similar we are. Or acknowledging we are not that different.’
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.
Acrylic, watercolour and mixed media on paper, 74 x 60cm
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’. Combining paint with pen, charcoal and and pastel, the work features layering and collage. It is typical of Joana’s complex compositions which use changes of perspective and scale to create several narratives.
Often, multiple trains of thought inform Joana’s imagery. She says; ‘There’s a woman looking after a man, maybe a mother caring for his son, or two lovers, or perhaps a woman braiding another woman’s hair, or perhaps just two people, one caressing the other’s head. Meanwhile, everyone else is looking at their own reflection on bodies of water. I called this work ‘Skin mirror’ because I like to think the two figures at the front are seeing their reflection too, but on each other. Something to do with remembering how similar we are. Or acknowledging we are not that different.’
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.
