Raquel 
Figueira
Raquel Figueira works across multiple mediums including drawing, painting, installation and writing. With a background both in creative practice and cultural theory, her research focuses on the intersections of politics and aesthetics, particularly on how ecological relations and sensory experience are shaped by and entangled with each other.

Through experimental approaches to image, form and display, her work 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 materiality and gesture, her drawings, paintings and assemblages engage with the fugitive and resourceful strategies emerging from human and more-than-human worlds in a time of planetary instability.
 
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

  • 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