ISEG's Cultural Commission is pleased to announce its next Painting Workshop exhibition, entitled 'Daring to Fly', under the responsibility of Anabela Mota.
The Painting Workshop exhibition will be inaugurated on 3 July, at 19.00, on the 3rd Floor of Quelhas, and will run until 24 July.
The value proposition of the Painting Workshop, which is suitable for the entire ISEGian community, is to learn and explore basic techniques, using different materials and supports, starting with exercises that enable gradual progress. As well as an approach to composition, drawing and colour, recognising ther importance of line/stain/texture.
Anabela Mota's career started in 1982 at the António Arroio School and in 1985 at ESBAL. Since 1997, she has dedicated herself to painting, including organising workshops for children and adults. She has been working together with the IPO Paediatric Ward in the area of painting, among other initiatives since 2005. She also works with AMARA in the area of palliative care and presented a paper on 'Art in hospital - The mysteries of the Art of Life in the IPO of Lisbon' at the 'V International Congress Espaço T', in Porto. In 2007, she founded 'A Casa da Quinta' in Linda-a-Velha, a community space for art. She holds a degree and Masters in Painting from FBAUL and also teaches at the ISEG Painting Worksop, which is currently ongoing.
She exhibits regularly, and also has a role as a curator. She is interested in the importance and awareness of 'looking' as a means to access multiple realities and a certain quality of time. She questions the fragility and mystery that is omnipresent in the reality of concrete things, the difference between a certain kind of looking which is used to seeing and the looking that is driven by consciousness -- an inner movement that has the gift of impressing reality.
