RAQUEL FIGUEIRA
Raquel Figueira (she/her) works across drawing, painting, installation and writing. 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 hierarchies, modes of display, and ideas of value. 

Her research focuses on the intersections of politics and aesthetics, informed by feminist, decolonial and queer currents in social and ecological thought. Her writing engages critical and transdisciplinary approaches to sensory, social, and environmental crises and how they might be understood through visual culture.

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. 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 (Distinction)
    Goldsmiths, University of London

    2008 – 2010
    MA Communication Design – Illustration
    Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London

    2005 – 2008
    BA Graphic Design
    Escola Superior Artes e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

  • Solo exhibitions


    TBC, 2025, D–Unit, Bristol, UK (upcoming);

  • 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 / Alt Education


    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