Rosarinho Andrade Textile Art
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→ Interview for Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, 2024
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→ “Alla mia Maniera”, Palazzo Pisani-Revedin Gallery, Venice, 2025
→ “Art Expo Lisbon”, VisionArt, Lisbon, 2025
→ “Oltre la maschera: l’arte del sogno e dell’illusione”, collective exhibition, Divulgarti, Venice, 2025
→ “Echoes of Broken Souls”, virtual online collective exhibition, Eunoia Curators, 2024/2025
→ 2nd Bienal Artes e Oficios | Novo Design, Oeiras 2024
→ “Creative Visions”, virtual online collective exhibition, Arteom Gallery, 2024, (included display in Times Square Billboards, NYC)
→ “Yrio”, collective exhibition, Monat Gallery, Madrid 2024
→ “White Noise”, collective exhibition, Monat Gallery, Madrid 2023
→ Art & Design Marbella Fair, Marbella, 2023
→ “Ephemeral”, collective exhibition, Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid 2023
→ 3rd Salon Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2023
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Rosarinho Andrade, born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1960.
With a degree in Medicine, worked almost 30 years in Pharmaceutical Industry, mainly as Marketing & Sales Director. Arts have always played an important role: drawing, embroidery, painting, music, are examples of artistic engagement throughout her life. In 2019 decides to embrace a dramatic change in her life and studies Interior Design (ID) at Cascais School of Arts and Design, where she has a first contact with the textile world.
She started her artistic journey in 2022 when she first learns this tapestry technique, called Woven Frames. Most people may not be familiar with the name but everyone recognizes the rope seats of chairs and benches, a type of work that has been used for many, many years, in many many places. These 3 years have been a journey of self discovery and also of finding her own aesthetic in an attempt to give this technique a different and less traditional application and a more contemporary feel.
With a passion for Architecture, Geometry and Color she tries to transpose to her frames the learnings acquired during the ID course, for example, how to convey depth or perspective in a 2D support, which is clearly reflected in her work so far. She’s always looking for ways to transfer interesting perspectives that have caught her attention, whether in real life or in photographs, to the canvas. The selection of materials and colors is largely inspired by what she sees: nature and the urban landscape are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. She likes her work to convey order, calm, peace, but above all, aesthetic beauty.
She uses preferably Portuguese brands, that warrant a sustainable production, and 100% natural fibers; her preference goes to cotton yarns, single twist, cords, braided, but also jute and linen. She has also used Arraiolos wool (typical wool of Alentejo region in Portugal). Lately she has also added to her range of materials cotton, linen or jute ribbons or fringes.
I look at my work as an attempt to preserve and bring a mid XIX century technique to the XXIst century.
Every single work, whether more simple or complex, requires an extensive amount of time from the initial idea to the final result. Sometimes it's not possible to translate this idea to the frame exactly as I imagined it, but this is the part of the process that I enjoy the most! Make adaptations, planning the execution are the most import parts to then let the hands do the job... and while doing it be completely absorbed by it!
My works need to be seen and touched to fall in love with them! I paint with threads!
