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​​I am an arts and cultural entrepreneur by profession, an art critic by vocation, and a Punk-Goth at heart.

I have been working as an art critic, curator and researcher and art producer/manager for more than two decades.

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My expertise crosses the fields occupied by arts and cultural management and production, the market for and contemporary art theory (specifically photography), as well as social criticism and participation, and epicure. As an art and cultural entrepreneur, I have found the cross-cultures festival Trienal, a festival that brings together all of those interests, and, from 2013 to 2017 I have led a programme of online exhibitions. As an art critic and curator I have wrote about and shown the work of Per Barclay, Wang Ningde, Rosângela Rennó, Jene & Louise Wilson, Kimono Yoshida, etc. and have collaborated in the commission and organisation of exhibitions of Robert Frank, Hermann Pitz, amongst others. My pertinent singular and analytical writings about art have been published both nationally and internationally in art magazines and newspapers, and I have contributed to books on art, participation, and democracy.

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I am an active member of AICA-UK, and have been contributing to the collective life of both AICA International and IKT.

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AREAS OF WORK

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Arts and Cultural Organisational Strategy

Audiences Development (internal and external communication)

Art and Educational Projects and Cultural Strategy

Web Design, Catalogues and Editorial Projects

Creation and Organisation of Cultural Visits and Circuits

Contemporary Art Collections Management

Curatorial Practice and Art Programmes Management.

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WORK AT _

• Events Management and Team Leadership [Part-Time] : U.K. Gov., The Football Association (Club Wembley), Arsenal F.C., Twickenham Stadium, Co-op, Lidl [Operations : Services, Sports, Hospitality, Entertainment], since 2016

• Associate Research Consultant, Collaboration Labs, The University of Manchester, Manchester, June - November 2020

• Head Curator, VASA Online Exhibitions Programme 2013 - 2016, VASA Project [Programme], June 2013 - October 2017

• Director, Trienal in Alentejo (Portugal) [Artists Research and Festival (Programme) Development], from 2013 to 2015

• Head of Images, Meet The Future: Tech Conference (second interactive event technology conference for buyers and organisers), Central Hall Westminster, 9th June 2015

• Visiting Critic, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London (England), 2014 - 2015

• Vice-President, VASA Europe, since July 2014

• Head of Images, Meet The Future: Tech Conference (first interactive event technology conference for buyers and organisers), Central Hall Westminster, 3rd June 2014

• Visiting Critic, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London (England), 2013 - 2014

• Co-Editor, Photography on the Internet - the new Hegemony, VASA Journal on Images and Culture, VJIC Issue #4, September 2013

• Visiting Critic, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, London (England), 2012 - 2013

• Deputy Director, The Mews Project, London (England) [Administration, Finances & Operations], February 2012 - January 2013

• Co-curator, Witness 2: Photographs: Krakow: Gerald Howson and Bogdan Frymorgen, VASA Project, 15th October 2012 - 14th January 2013

• Associate Editor : Visual Cultures, VASA Journal on Images and Culture | VJIC, since 2012

• Gallery & Programme Manager, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London [Gallery & Programme Manager : General Management, Programme, Finance & Operations], June 2011 - January 2012

• Curator, Viewfinder Open Salon 2012, Greenwich Picturehouse, Greenwich (London, England), 6th - 29th January 2012

• Co-curator, Sara Maia, Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (Portugal) 30th September - 31st October 2010

• Director & General Curator, Trienal do Vale do Tejo (Portugal) [Programme, Finance & Operations, Marketing & Development], 18th September - 10th October 2010

• Art Critic : ArsMagazine Revista de Arte y Coleccionismo, Art & Christianity, Art Notes, artecapital.net, Artes & Leilões, Camera Austria International, Lapiz Revista Internacional de Arte; Molduras - Antena 2 [RTP]; Notícias Sábado [Diário de Notícias and Jornal de Notícias], The Art Newspaper, since 2006

• Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder, e-vai | visual arts information [online informative platform] [Programme, Finance & Operations, Marketing & Development], July 2007 - June 2008

• Lecturer, Centro de Estudos de Fotografia, Coimbra (Portugal) [History of Photography, Aesthetics], 1998 - 2000

• Exhibitions and Festival Manager, Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra [CAV - Centro de Artes Visuais] [Operations], 1997 - 2001

• Scenery and Lighting Designer [Scenery and Lighting Designer] : A Escola da Noite - Grupo de Teatro, Bernardo de Santareno, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos, Encena, Expo'98 - Lisbon World Exhibition, Grupo de Animação Teatral de Salvaterra de Magos, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, 1992 - 1999

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COMMUNICATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS _

• Contested Infrastructures. Art Criticism and the Institutionalisation of Art, 55th A.I.C.A. International Congress, Krakow (Poland), 13th - 17th November 2023

• REBOOT. Critic Condition, Phillips, London, 18th October 2023

• Conversation on Juan Genovés with Bartomeu Marí, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 8th September 2022

• Place-Based Climate Action Network, Climate Praxis Conference, Online, 30th September 2020

• Fields of Collaboration in Contemporary Art Practices, International Conference, Culturgest, Lisbon (Portugal), 19th - 20th November 2019

• Art Criticism in the Age of Virtuality and Democracy, 51st A.I.C.A. International Congress, Taipei (Taiwan), 14th - 21st November 2018

• Arts and Creativity: Working on Identity and Difference, 9th MidTerm Conference of the RN-Sociology of the Arts, University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Portugal), 8th - 10th September 2016

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AWARDS AND GRANTS _​

• Partner-led Project Excellence Award, Collaboration Labs, The University of Manchester, 2020

• Scholarship, Serviço de Belas Artes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2005 - 2006

• Profissional-Cultural Internship, The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Work and Solidarity from Portugal, 1999

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS _​​

• A.I.C.A. (Association International des Critiques d’Art)​​

  • Vice-President, 2023 - 2026

  • International Board Member of the Administrative Council, 2015 - 2016, 2016 - 2017, 2020 - 2021, 2021 - 2022

  • Archives and Living Memory Commission, since 2017

  • Membership Secretary (UK), 2020 - 2023, 2023 - 2026

  • Member, 2012 - 2018 (Portugal), since 2019 (UK)

• IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art

  • Member, 2023 - 2025

• C.C.P.J. (Comissão da Carteira Profissional de Jornalistas)

  • Press/Colaborador Especializado CO 381, 2008 - 2012

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EDUCATION & OTHER CERTIFICATES_

• PhD Professional Doctorate in Arts and Cultural Management, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester

  • 'Mediating Provisional Communities: the Production and Management of Collaborative Art Projects and their Afterlife'​

• MA in Cultural Studies, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London

  • Cultural Theory & Analysis, Cultural Studies & Capitalism, Politics and Culture, Anthropology of Art

  • MA Cultural Studies Programme Students Representative

• BA (Hons.) in Arts Management and Events Management, Business School, London Metropolitan University

  • Arts Management, Planning and Management of Events, Events Strategy, Finance, Cultural Policy, Entertainment Law, Arts and Heritage Marketing, Issues in Contemporary Art

  • BA Arts Management Course Committee

• Certificate (Level 2) in Accounting and Bookkeeping, City & Guilds, London

• Certificate in Photography, ar.co - centro de arte & comunicação visual, Lisbon

• Certificate in Drawing, ar.co - centro de arte & comunicação visual, Lisbon