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Opening tomorrow November 14th at @is.gallery.nyc , I Was Carefree, Green, and Golden, a group exhibition with Antonia Caicedo Holguín and Stephanie Monteith. I couldn’t be happier to be part of this project - thank you to everyone at @is.gallery.nyc for your immense support and trust in preparation to it. And what a joy and honour it is to show with @antoniac.art and @stephmonteith - sadly I won’t be able to join the opening night, I really wish I could, but they’ll be there! Congratulations to both for their beautiful work. - I Was Carefree, Green, and Golden, an upcoming group show on view from November 14th – December 31st. The exhibition brings together the work of three female painters, Antonia Caicedo Holguín (b.1997, Colombia), Joana Galego (b.1994, Portugal), and Stephanie Monteith (b. 1973, Australia). The three artists are linked by a joint interest in and unique approach to the use of color in painting. Each artist culls ideas and images from personal experience, along with the verdant landscapes of their diverse home countries. Overlapping themes include imagination, place and memory, love and connection, everyday life and the natural world. The title of the show is drawn from the Dylan Thomas poem “Fern Hill,” a temporal and evocative piece of writing that depicts the pastoral and idyllic scenes of the Welsh countryside, where the writer spent his youth. Collectively this exhibition invites the viewer to explore their own history and identity, and the spaces we create and inhabit – both past and present, interior and exterior, and empirical and mystical. Please join us for an opening reception on November 14th, from 6-8pm ! - Animation by @aliiiguo Design by @julia__guo Music by @timothywyldmusic

In the studio with Joana Galego: these photos were captured by @imogenforte at Galego’s studio at @lewishamarthouse in London, England, as Joana prepared for the exhibition in New York. Swipe to see the artist at work, her process, and her perspective on embracing imperfections. ✍️✨ “I Was Carefree, Green and Golden” is now on view through January 15

‘A Hand is Not a Cage’ , with the brilliant @alice__mac , is open until late today at Soho Revue Gallery, from 12 to 8pm, as part of @firstwednesdayssoho . It will then continue with the usual opening hours, 12 to 6pm, until its final day, this Saturday December 7th. Thank you so much to @sohorevue for hosting and supporting us, @alice__mac who constantly inspires me and whose works in this exhibition are so beautiful (as always), and of course thank you to everyone who took time to visit, it really means a lot. Install shots courtesy of Soho Revue Gallery, Photography Tom Carter.

We’re about to enter the last week of ‘A Hand is Not a Cage’. Thank you so much to everyone who has visited so far, your time and consideration means a lot! It has been a dream to do this with my dear friend @alice__mac , whose work I couldn’t admire more. The exhibition ends on the 7th of December and is currently open at @sohorevue , Wednesdays to Saturdays from 12 to 6pm. Thank you to @indiarosejames and all the Gallery’s team for their continuous support and for hosting the little ‘house’ we made together, upstairs. I’ll be there tomorrow for a little while before heading to @eyetopencil for a Poetry evening with @stephanirodriguez__ , @r.l.drake , @benwestleyclarke , @gillesmadan, @sarahfletcher27 and Alex Priestley - please do come along! As always thank you for reading, and I’m sending a hug. x It’s late and we keep playing, 2024 Acrylic and oil on canvas 47 1/5 × 35 2/5 in | 120 × 90 cm Images courtesy of Soho Revue Gallery, Photography Tom Carter (Image 6) and @reliant.imaging (Image 1).

Hello! If you’re in London I’d like to invite you to Desenho, opening next Wednesday at @eyetopencil , a place, (perhaps more than a place? a small but warm and welcoming hug in the shape of a room? and in that sense a big hug?), as I was saying, a place I hold very dearly in my head. I’ve always felt not only welcomed, but excitingly bitten by a contagious mysterious sparkling dust of this immense passion for drawing and everything it can do whenever I stepped into this room. I hope that makes sense. All I’m saying is you couldn’t not feel enamored by drawing whenever you were in this room. All its magic, mystery, ambiguity, usefulness, uselessness, silliness, joy, sadness, intangibility, clarity. Drawing! I love drawing. I know I must sound silly. Luci, who runs Eye to Pencil with immense creativity, energy and generosity, very kindly invited me to participate in their Autumn programme, titled ‘The Studio as a Lab’. I immediately thought of inviting Nuno to curate an exhibition in the space. If we’ve ever talked about art in general, I’ve probably mentioned Nuno’s work to you, and how inspiring it is to visit his studio, where paper becomes a tree again, people are made of dates and flowers and beans and birds are solid yet surround you and fly through you. The whole studio feels like a poem, where drawings are the words. So I invited him and he invited other artists, some of them who I already admired, others who I was so glad to find for the first time through him. An invitation sparking an invitation sparking invitations. I’m getting very long here, but I’ll try to say what matters: I’d really like to invite you to come and see and spend time with these artists’ works in the flesh. They are: Rita Anuar, Teresa Arega, Elsa Basto, Beatriz Bentes, Chikki Chikki, Claudia Cid, Filipa Cordeiro, Mafalda Costa, Guilherme Figueiredo, Nuno Gonçalves, Sara Fonseca da Graça, Sara Graça, Arjjila, Ana Maçã, Eva Magalhães, Marjorie, Matilde Martins, Natacha Martins, Saphira Nancy, Ana Salomé Paiva, Catarina Real, Tiago de Sá, Sreya, Mariana Tilly, Sara Tralha and Felix Vong and I couldn’t feel happier (I got so long I ran out of space! I’ll continue in the comments)

Synchronized breath, 2024 Watercolour and gesso on board 8 3/10 × 10 in | 21 × 25.5 cm A game of chess in no specific place (secretly my favourite room), 2024 Watercolour and gesso on board 8 3/10 × 10 in | 21 × 25.5 cm Past life, 2024 Watercolour and gesso on board 8 3/10 × 10 in | 21 × 25.5 cm Part of A Hand is Not a Cage @sohorevue, with the brilliant @alice__mac . Thank you to everyone who has made the effort to visit so far, it truly means a lot. The show continues until December 7th, Wednesdays to Saturdays 12-6pm. Images courtesy of Soho Revue Gallery, Photography @reliant.imaging .

I was honoured and touched by @nina.murdoch ‘s invitation to be part of her selection for this year’s @ingdiscerningeye . Thank you so much Nina and many congratulations to all selected artists. The ING Discerning Eye 2024 will remain open at the @mallgalleries in London until November​ 24. Here pictured: Hand Sewing an Invisible Stitch, 2024. Acrylic, graphite and watercolour on paper and canvas, 30x25cm.

South London Walks, 2024 Watercolour and gesso on panel 10 × 8 in | 25.4 × 20.3 cm a small painting I started at @palazzomonti this summer, now part of I Was Carefree, Green and Golden, with @antoniac.art and @stephmonteith , open since yesterday and until Dec. 31st at @is.gallery.nyc - thank you so much for having me !

“I remember when I was an art student I encountered this print by Munch of an embrace. The title was Consolation, and I felt it myself just by looking at a picture that was done by someone many years ago. I held that image in my head as a sort of guideline of what I would one day like to maybe achieve with my work. I’m interested in this very visual connection with emotion through an image that can bring back memories or evocations of things.” - @joana.galego View our latest episode of “A Portrait of the Artist” as we visit with London-based artist Joana Galego. It was a joy to explore Joana’s world, her thoughts, emotions, and her artmaking process. Galego’s work is featured in our upcoming group show, “I Was Carefree, Green and Golden,” which opens tonight from 6-8pm ✨ Joana Galego (b. 1994 in Portugal) completed a BA in Painting at the University of Lisbon in 2016, and received a full scholarship in 2017 to The Drawing Year program at the Royal Drawing School in London. She has exhibited in the UK, Portugal and abroad, including the solo exhibitions ‘jardins’ at Galeria Belard, Lisbon, in 2024 and ‘mole lunar sinal’ at Soho Revue, London, in 2023. Joana has been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2019 and awarded The Sir Denis Mahon Award from the Royal Drawing School in 2017. She has recently participated in artistic residencies at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy and IIFA in India. The artist lives and works in London, England.

“Surprise and mystery are important to me. I look for images that deeply engage the senses, mind, and, for lack of a better word, the spirit. I’m particularly interested in making work that asks questions rather than making statements.” - Joana Galego ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Meet London-based artist Joana Galego, who will be featured in our upcoming group exhibition “I Was Carefree, Green and Golden.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Galego combines observational drawing, imagination and drawing from reference photos, often starting from a tender personal experience. She grew up in Cascais, Portugal, between the Sintra mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, a coastal town whose biodiversity profoundly influenced her imagery and imagination. Galego created a monumental work for this exhibition spanning 10 feet in length, titled “Our Mother’s Cloak,” a loose reference to Piero della Francesca’s Madonna of Mercy. “Our Mother’s Cloak” depicts three childlike figures hiding under a cloak, a powerful symbol of protection, concealment, or escape. She probes viewers to question the nature of innocence, purity, and care, in compositions that combine the spiritual and physical realms. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🥂 The show opens next Thursday, November 14th, from 6-8pm! ✨ “I Was Carefree, Green and Golden” is on view from November 14- December 31, 2024 📍 39 Lispenard Street. Tribeca - Photography by @imogenforte

Thank you to everyone who visited @sohorevue last Wednesday, joining the brilliant @alice__mac and me for the opening of A Hand is Not a Cage. I feel extremely lucky to have had this opportunity of working with Alice and it meant a lot to share our collaboration with you - I ended the evening with a full heart from all the hugs and conversations, even if they were briefer than what I would’ve liked sometimes. Thank you for your presence, consideration and warmth. Thank you for making the effort to come and for brightening that evening so much. Our exhibition continues until the 7th of December at 14 Greek St., London W1D 4DP, and the gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm. Here pictured: Peeling an orange (learning from a distance), 2024 Oil on canvas 190 x 110 cm A game of chess in no specific place (secretly my favourite room), 2024 Watercolour on gessoed board 21 x 25.5 cm The tablecloth we painted together, with our ceramics on top. It was such a treat to work on these alongside the amazingly talented Alice. Images beautifully captured courtesy of Soho Revue Gallery, Photography Tom Carter.

Our exhibition (@alice__mac ‘s and mine) which we titled A Hand is Not a Cage opens tonight at Soho Revue and, if you feel like it and can make it, it would be really lovely to see you there. Thank you to everyone that made this possible: it has been a dream to collaborate with @alice__mac , who inspires me daily and who I admire so much as a colleague and a friend. Thank you everyone at @sohorevue for the immense trust and support and for helping us bring our ideas to life. Thank you to my loved ones, family, Lewis, friends, always, for being here along the way, with so much kindness, generosity and patience. And lastly thank you for reading and ever spending time with these works, it means a lot to us. Com um grande abraço e obrigada, Joana