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Jacqueline de Montaigne
Jacqueline de Montaigne
Jacqueline de Montaigne

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.

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Jacqueline de Montaigne
Jacqueline de Montaigne

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.