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Jacqueline de
Montaigne (Lisbon,1980) is an Anglo-Portuguese painter, mural and pasteup
artist, who’s dramatic, nature infused figurative art can be found in
international galleries and Portugal's prominent street art scene.
Jacqueline is a self-taught
artist with an academic background in medical ethics and health sciences and it
was only in 2018 that she decided to pursue her art career full time. Her work
is now represented in both private and public international collections with
over 50 murals under her belt as well as having her art used in initiatives for
social change in Belgium, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Paraguay,
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Jacqueline work is
introspective and often autobiographical, where secondary texts, images and the
visual identity of her figures are used to explore our true nature versus
imposed beliefs and societal expectations.
Nature also has a strong
presence throughout the artist's work, bringing an ethereal calm where the
chosen fauna and flora each have symbolic meanings. Swallows frequently
appear in the artist's work, representing sanctuary, while birds in
general represent resilience and the moths which are another common motif in her
work represent metamorphosis whilst the different flowers are linked to
specific memories.
Watercolor is her
preferred medium which she fell in love with as a child, originally wanting to
pursue scientific illustration. Regardless of the surface she is working
on, she always tries to manipulate her materials to resemble the effects and
fluidity of watercolors - often encompassing her subjects in precious metals
whether a small scientific grade watercolor, a large canvas or a 400m/2 public
street art mural on a weathered concrete wall.
Jacqueline currently lives in
Cascais, Portugal, where she maintains a fulltime studio practice.
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Esta é a 8ª
obra de arte de uma série chamada Guardian
Rebels que foi originalmente criada para um seminário em 2019, em Lisboa, que
se centrou em activistas e oradores de renome internacional, incluindo Ed
Gillespie, um dos fundadores da Extinction Rebellion. Extinction Rebellion é um
movimento ambiental global, conhecido pela utilização de obras de arte e
simples impressão em blocos monocromáticos, nas suas mensagens e identidade
globais.
A magnitude do
movimento, a sua identidade visual e utilização de diagramas e ilustrações de
biologia da velha escola, é o que inspira Jacqueline a ser maior do que os
"guardiães" da vida,representando aquilo que ela gosta de pensar como
"santos modernos" (activistas do século XXI) - trazendo a consciência
para as questões ambientais, através das detalhadas imagens informativas,
simbólicas e representativas, e dos textos pintados nos seus corpos.
A intervenção
será um lembrete de que nossa própria existência está condicionada à nossa
capacidade coletiva de proteger a fauna e a flora ao nosso redor, para que
possamos encontrar um equilíbrio para coexistir com e dentro do nosso mundo
natural.
O mural
consiste em figuras espelhadas voltadas umas para as outras, uma humana, a
outra composta de fauna e flora. A figura humana terá a fauna e flora
correspondentes tatuadas no seu corpo, como uma ode à natureza. As figuras
gêmeas são ligadas por um círculo de cobre, criado a partir de folha de cobre
real, que simboliza o valor da natureza, enquanto o círculo em si mesmo representa
a continuidade.
Jacqueline de
Montaigne (Lisbon,1980) is an Anglo-Portuguese painter, mural and pasteup
artist, who’s dramatic, nature infused figurative art can be found in
international galleries and Portugal's prominent street art scene.
Jacqueline is a self-taught
artist with an academic background in medical ethics and health sciences and it
was only in 2018 that she decided to pursue her art career full time. Her work
is now represented in both private and public international collections with
over 50 murals under her belt as well as having her art used in initiatives for
social change in Belgium, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Paraguay,
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Jacqueline work is
introspective and often autobiographical, where secondary texts, images and the
visual identity of her figures are used to explore our true nature versus
imposed beliefs and societal expectations.
Nature also has a strong
presence throughout the artist's work, bringing an ethereal calm where the
chosen fauna and flora each have symbolic meanings. Swallows frequently
appear in the artist's work, representing sanctuary, while birds in
general represent resilience and the moths which are another common motif in her
work represent metamorphosis whilst the different flowers are linked to
specific memories.
Watercolor is her
preferred medium which she fell in love with as a child, originally wanting to
pursue scientific illustration. Regardless of the surface she is working
on, she always tries to manipulate her materials to resemble the effects and
fluidity of watercolors - often encompassing her subjects in precious metals
whether a small scientific grade watercolor, a large canvas or a 400m/2 public
street art mural on a weathered concrete wall.
Jacqueline currently lives in
Cascais, Portugal, where she maintains a fulltime studio practice.
