WHO ARE WE?
No matter who you are, where you come from, and what's your story, we want to hear it and embrace diversity of thought and of being.
We aim to foster an environment where people can be real and welcome their authentic selves and create without barriers.
We are artists in different creative fields and we all recognise that in the modern day we are connected by unfathomable technological advancements, where we have unprecedented access to a new world online and where movement IRL has never been more accessible.
We believe that in this modern world artistic freedom should happen naturally without being stirred one way or the other by anyone other than the artists themselves.
In the collective, we appreciate uniqueness and freedom.
We nurture the individual and the collective for world-making through a connection with the 'Casa do Marco' herself, this old fisherman's house turned Art Gallery, Creative Atelier and Artistic Residency for local and international artists.
We look at the house itself is a living work of art, we are at present recovering and transforming the house, and documenting it's changes as we develop ourselves as artists and as humans.
Sneak Peak
Meet Some Our Artists
Nitael Bruno
Nitael is an autodidact artist, whose cultural heritage attaches a special significance to his inspiration.
He is a student of the old masters of impressionism, expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
His journey took him from a culture of street art and graffiti to oil paints, canvas, and studio works.
Nitael engages through a variety of mediums, oil painting, pencil or pen drawings, collage, murals, engraved wood panels and sculptures.
His subjects are the human figure; architectural or natural landscapes; and abstract portraits. With his thick, dramatic knife work and brilliant colours, he usually layers vibrant paints creating a heavy, textured image, where you can find the bright colours and sharp divisive lines so characteristic of his style.
To paint, he uses a palette knife spatula, and a small selection of brushes.
Technical in his approach he searches incessantly as he explores his subconscious mind on the canvas.
Dwelling on the balance between chaos and order, past and present, darkness and light and the usual dichotomy of life.
Subtle and critical, frequently embedded with either subliminal, in your face or non-existing messages. It’s up to you to find them.
Modern concerns like environmental awareness and social interaction are always translated
during the creative process, and each piece has its unique way of connecting people’s thoughts and hearts.
JACK_leBIGmac
An unknown creative entity, coming from an uncertain place, somewhere in the deep universe, organised, chaotic, mysterious and in a certain way surreal.
JACK roams the world contaminating people through creativity and the desire for change.
His power manifests itself through a mask that controls whoever wears it.
First sightings of JACK were in London when the spirit of JACK inadvertently took hold of a $#/% of "(/#$$)$#%)"/, with roots in the visual arts and filmmaking and music, who now are the driving force behind the BECOMING JACK project.
What started unexpectedly, evolved 'virally', infecting everyone who crossed its path.
With his irreverence and dissatisfaction, JACK intends to invade the mind of each viewer through the power of Art.
JACK, a being from the 5th, for reasons unknown and incomprehensible to our 3D minds, decides to come down and incarnate in our dimension.
He lives beyond good and evil and sees things with the mind of a child, he is a virus of creativity and other ways to look at the world, expanding the ways we look at the world as individuals and as a species.
BECOMING JACK
WE ARE ONE,
WE ARE HUMANITY.
Bea Bandeirinha
Beatriz Bandeirinha creates a sonic space inspired by primal beats, Portuguese roots, and dreamscapes.
She embraces worldly confusions to craft music about the beauty of questions in the shadows.
The artist brings her body that sings with electronic beats.