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Ana Margarida Carvalho

Jeweller
Published: 18.04.2024

Bio

I studied Jewelry at Ar.Co (Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual) where I did an individual project in 2008 mentored by Leonor Hipólito with a “MC Arquitectos” grant, and at Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery. I won the 1st prize in “IV Portojóia Design 2006” and the “Assamblage Award” in Artistar Jewelry 2019. As of 2016, I also teach in Ar.Co’s Jewelry Department.

Statement

Since I can remember, I travel as much as I can. Also, having an art and science background, I find myself mixing all those experiences when researching materials and ideas. Color is the more persistent factor in my pieces, which tend to be very different from series to series as a result of my endless curiosity about what I come across.


Over Land and Sea, 2024:
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen has always been part of my life, through the stories she wrote for children or other texts that crossed my life, but also through her interventions in civil society. When trying to learn more about her life and work, I discovered a person aware of the world in which she lived in. Announcing and denouncing truths, she helped to build a better country, but above all he was a light that guided generations. A bright spark, in vigil, that to this day glows.

Memories, 2022:
Perfume as memory. An aroma that transports us to past experiences that we consider precious, to places we would like to go or revisit.
The “Memories” series is the result of accumulating experiences, even when they are only lived personally by others.
The Great Australian Barrier Reef (only visited in documentaries), reefs, small corals that wash up on the coast motivated ”Reef #1”, ”Reef #2” and ”Reef #3”.
Summer holidays in the countryside, in which mountains full of life, with its plants and animals, dominated the horizon, gave rise to “Honey”.
Finally, Summertime at the beach, with the lively surf of the waves that spread tiny bubbles on the sand, served as the inspiration for “Bubbles”.

 
Play in Case of Emergency, 2022:
This series title seems suited for this time but was not indeed done that way. Coronavirus was barely in the news when I started this project.
When I look around, I find people don’t value enough playtime and many think that one has to be very serious when working. This series gave me the opportunity to explore this subject.
It started with an invitation to an exhibition in Galeria Reverso. The challenge of the theme, Gogoísme, made me research small pre-historic toys, and animal illustrations from several American graphic designers and go back to my childhood drawings, where shapes are opened to interpretation.
I chose Perspex as an easy main material to work with and also to take advantage of its color. Having many colors to choose from, I went back to the early days of plastic jewelry and toys to pick the red and pearl hues.

 
In Paradisum Series II, 2019:
As I have done before, I revisited the “In Paradisum” theme. My Paradise couldn’t be made of only plants.
 
This time, a trip to Peru and the many visits to its traditional jewelry exhibits were the inspiration for this series. A filled with color Peru and its many animals live or in its many crafts, sometimes amusing in my eyes, made me want to be more playful in this series while reinterpreting animals in Paradise.
 
Besides the shapes I saw in Peru, I used leftovers from things that I collect (cardboard that one takes to open a tissue box-like or plastic removed from a newly bought shirt from my partner) to help me with softer shapes.


In Paradisum Series, 2018:
Having Baroque Music as a starting point, each piece is the result of repeating and combining the same type of aluminium, copper or titanium element. These folded units are organized, like in origami, to create organic forms in which the geometry of the compositions is hidden when the metal is forged.

The organic aspect of the pieces is also reinforced by the marks left by the hammer, by the mobility of the non-welded elements that compose them and finally by the Kliar coating or anodized color of each piece.

 

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2024:
Workshop  18 Jul 2024 - 21 Jul 2024  Resin Workshop by Ana Margarida Carvalho.
Workshop  06 Jul 2024 - 14 Jul 2024  Resin Moulds. A Workshop by Ana Margarida Carvalho.
Workshop  01 Jul 2024 - 05 Jul 2024  Curved Folds. A Workshop with Ana Margarida Carvalho.
Exhibition  10 May 2024 - 23 Jun 2024  Design Without Borderes 2024.
Kiscelli Museum (Budapest, Hungary).
2023:
Exhibition  25 Nov 2023 - 15 Jan 2024  25 Years Reverso at Reverso Gallery.
Lisbon, Portugla
Exhibition  22 Sep 2023 - 05 Oct 2023  Design Without Borders.
Collegium Hungaricum (Vienna, Austria)
Exhibition  10 Mar 2023 - 09 Apr 2023  Design Without Borders 2023.
Virtual Exhibition  08 Mar 2023 - 12 Apr 2023  Unordinary Characters.
House on Mars Gallery, Munich Jewellery Week
2022:
Exhibition  26 Nov 2022 - 03 Jan 2023  Perfume.
Exhibition  02 Oct 2022 - 06 Nov 2022  Design Without Borders 2022.
Exhibition  25 Feb 2022 - 27 Mar 2022  Unordinary Characters.
House on Mars Gallery, Somerset House, Collect Art Fair (London, UK)
2021:
Exhibition  04 Dec 2021 - 21 Jan 2022  Christmas Exhibition.
Exhibition  27 Nov 2021 - 24 Dec 2021  Pratas da Casa.
Galeria Tereza Seabra - Jóias de Autor, Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibition  17 Sep 2021 - 19 Sep 2021  Suor Frio.
Galeria Alice Floriano, Jewellery Room, 1ª Bienal de Joalheria Contemporânea de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Open call  28 Jun 2021 - 31 Aug 2021  Open Call for the 11th Arte y Joya International Award.
Exhibition  26 May 2021 - 30 May 2021  Beyond Typology.
House on Mars Gallery, Collectible Salon
Exhibition  08 Mar 2021 - 14 Mar 2021  Beyond Typology: wearable art edit.
House on Mars Gallery, Munich Jewellery Week
Exhibition  24 Feb 2021 - 24 Mar 2021  Beyond Typology.
House on Mars Gallery, Collect Art Fair (London, UK)
2020:
Exhibition  02 Dec 2020 - 22 Jan 2021  Hope. A Ruler in Blue.
Award giving  08 Oct 2020 - 08 Oct 2020  The Winner of Arte y Joya Award 2020.
Award giving  29 Sep 2020 - 29 Sep 2020  Award Winners at JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects Fair 2020.
Exhibition  22 Sep 2020 - 27 Sep 2020  London Design Festival 2020. From Mars with Love(Jewellery and Objects).
Represented by House on Mars Gallery, London, UK.
Exhibition  22 Sep 2020 - 27 Sep 2020  Romanian Jewelry Week 1.0.
Bucarest, Romania.
Meeting  30 Apr 2020 - 03 May 2020  CANCELED / Melting Point 2020.
Exhibition  21 Feb 2020 - 20 Mar 2020  Gogoisme 2 in Lisbon.
2019:
Exhibition  26 Sep 2019 - 18 Oct 2019  Até Aqui. Up Till Here.
Exhibition  19 Feb 2019 - 24 Feb 2019  Artistar Jewels in Milan.
2018:
Exhibition  24 Nov 2018 - 29 Dec 2018  Parable.
Exhibition  10 Nov 2018 - 31 Dec 2018  Tincal Lab Challenge 2018. Jewelry and Technology.
2017:
Exhibition  25 Nov 2017 - 30 Dec 2017  Archipelago.
Exhibition  25 Nov 2017 - 10 Jan 2018  Pearls Upside Down.
2016:
Exhibition  11 Dec 2016 - 13 Jan 2017  Idem. Mùltiplos de Autor.
Exhibition  26 Nov 2016 - 24 Dec 2016  White Christmas in Lisbon.
Exhibition  21 Jun 2016 - 30 Jul 2016  3cm, Summer Exhibition.
2015:
Exhibition  28 Nov 2015 - 15 Jan 2016  Snapshot.
2014:
Exhibition  29 Nov 2014 - 23 Jan 2015  Spectrum: Christmas group show.
Exhibition  29 Nov 2014 - 24 Dec 2014  Natal 2014.
2013:
Exhibition  12 Dec 2013 - 12 Jan 2014  Even the Trees are Dreams.
Exhibition  30 Nov 2013 - 31 Dec 2013  Exposiçao de Natal.
Exhibition  29 Oct 2013 - 19 Nov 2013  40 Jewels.
2012:
Exhibition  01 Dec 2012 - 27 Jan 2013  Allegro Moderato.
2011:
Exhibition  26 Nov 2011 - 27 Jan 2012  Au Fil du Temps.
2010:
Exhibition  11 Mar 2010 - 25 Mar 2010  Ana Margarida Carvalho: A door without a knob is a wall.
2006:
Exhibition  26 Jun 2006 - 29 Jun 2006  Summer Students Exhibition 2005/2006.

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Magazine:  Beyond Typology: wearable art edit. House on Mars GalleryCurrent Obsession:  2021
Munich Jewellery Week Paper 2021, Pages, 76,77
Book:  Art y Joya, Contemporary Jewellery Yearbook 2020/2021. Grupo Duplex:  2021
Pages, 9, 40, 41
Catalogue:  ​Tiara, 40 anos de Joalharia no Ar.Co. Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual:  Lisbon,  2020
Magazine:  Contraste. Grupo Duplex:  2020
Edition 231, Pages 50, 51
Magazine:  Contraste. Grupo Duplex:  2020
Edition 230, Page 38
Book:  Artistar Jewels 2019, The Contemporary Jewel as never seen before. Fausto Lupetti Editore:  2019
Pages 30-33.
Book:  Reverso 1914-2018. Galeria Reverso:  2018
Pages 17, 22, 23, 30, 40, 41, 48, 74.
Magazine:  ​Trending Jewellery. Collection Magazine:  2018
Page 23, issue 77.
Catalogue:  ​Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial. Beijing,  2013
Page 59.
Book:  500 Plastic Jewelry, Larkbooks Catalogs. Larkbooks:  2009
Book:  ​Reverso 1998-2008. Galeria Reverso:  2008
Book:  The Art of Jewelry – Plastic & Resin. Aldeson, D.Larkbooks:  2008
Book:  ​4 Pontos de Contacto entre Lisboa e Roma. 2006