Manuela Jardim Guinea-Bissau, b. 1949
Overview
Manuela Jardim is a visual artist and educator who lives and works in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Sculpture from the School of Fine Arts of Lisbon (1975) and furthered her training in Printmaking, Textiles, and Decoration at the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation, as well as in Screen Printing at the Institut National d'Éducation Populaire in Paris.
Her artistic practice merges creation with pedagogy, weaving together personal memory and cultural identity, with a particular focus on the textile traditions of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Since 2004, she has developed a body of work rooted in the symbolic language of West African textiles, where visual elements—such as color, repetition, and structure—reflect a dialogue between mythical time and lived experience.
From 1984 to 1989, she served as a visual arts technician at FAOJ, where she created several cultural posters. She represented Portugal at the Biennale of Artists from Mediterranean Countries (Greece, 1986; France, 1990) and is the author of institutional works including commemorative stamps marking Pope John Paul II’s visit to Guinea (1990) and a screen print celebrating the centenary of the Vasco da Gama Aquarium (1998).
She has participated in over fifty national and international exhibitions, both group and solo, and has received several awards and honorable mentions. Between 2008 and 2015, she was part of the Education Department of the National Museum of Ethnology (Lisbon), through a collaborative protocol between the Ministries of Culture and Education.
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