Sculptor, painter and printmaker

Biography

Born in Brazil. Following degrees in both art and music at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás and the Federal University of Goiás she went on to complete a postgraduate course in music and education at the Federal University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

She taught and lectured for several years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás and the Federal University of Goiás before coming to England in 1973 on a British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art. Since 1973 she has lived and worked in England.

 

Her work has been widely exhibited and is in a number of private and public collections in the UK and overseas.

 
 

Including Arts Council England; British Museum; British Library; Ashmolean Museum Oxford; Victoria and Albert Museum; Cass Sculpture Foundation Chichester; Linacre College, University of Oxford; Blackburn Museum; Towner, Eastbourne; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Oldham Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Whitworth, Manchester; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Fredrikstad, Norway; Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway; New York Public Library, USA; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA; Sweet Briar College, Virginia, USA; The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, USA; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil; Universidade de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil; Municipal Museum, Goiania, Brazil.

 

Selected exhibitions and awards, Including Arts Council England; British Museum; British Library; Ashmolean Museum Oxford; Victoria and Albert Museum; Cass Sculpture Foundation Chichester; Linacre College, University of Oxford; Blackburn Museum; Towner, Eastbourne; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

  • 2017
    Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland (GIAF'17). Sculpture and Prints.

    2017
    Salisbury Cathedral - Dispersing the Night, Sculpture by Ana Maria Pacheco

    2016
    Chichester Cathedral - Shadows of the Wanderer

    2015
    Norwich Castle Museum - Enchanted Garden (alabaster reliefs) (to 2017)

    2015
    The Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts - Sculpture and Prints; Norwich Cathedral (North Transept) - Shadows of the Wanderer; Cathedral of St John the Baptist - Studies of Heads (John the Baptist I & III)

    2013
    Edinburgh Art Festival - Sculpture and Prints at St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy

    2012
    Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil, Sculpture, prints and artist’s books (to 2013)

    2012
    Salisbury International Arts Festival, The Longest Journey at Salisbury Cathedral (North Transept)

    2011
    Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent at Canterbury - Sculpture and Prints

    2010
    St John's Church, Waterloo - Sculpture and Prints

    2008
    Wallspace at All Hallows on the Wall, London - Sculpture

    2008
    Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts - Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Artist's Books

    2007
    Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, USA - Sculpture, Drawings and Prints

    2004
    Hayward Touring: Prints. A touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery for Arts Council England - to 2010.

    2004
    Brighton Museum & Art Gallery - Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Artist's Books

    2003
    Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York City - Sculpture (Land of No Return)

    2002
    Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York City - Sculpture (Dark Night of the Soul)

    2001
    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - Sculpture and Prints

    1999
    National Gallery, London - Sculpture and Painting. Exhibition toured on to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.

    1999
    Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland - Sculpture and Painting

    1997
    The Old Jail Arts Center, Albany, Texas, USA - Sculpture and Prints

    1996
    The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA - Sculpture and Prints

    1995
    Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester - Sculpture

    1995
    Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland - Sculpture and Prints

    1994
    The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery - Sculpture and Painting

    1994
    Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk - Sculpture and Prints

    1993
    Oslo Kunstforening, Norway - Sculpture and Prints

    1992
    Winchester Cathedral - Trilogy: Sculpture and Prints

    1992
    Trondhjems Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway - Sculpture

    1991
    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford - Some Exercise of Power. Sculpture and Drawing. Touring on to the Camden Arts Centre, London.

    1989
    Artsite Gallery and St John's Catholic Church, Bath - Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and Prints. Exhibition toured on to Cornerhouse, Manchester; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Worcester City Art Gallery; Worcester Cathedral; Metropole Arts Centre, Folkestone; Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery; Glasgow Print Studio Gallery

    1983
    Ikon Gallery, Birmingham - Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Prints.

  • 2015
    Mário Pedrosa Award for Contemporary Artist from the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte (ABCA).

    2012
    Comenda do Anhanguera from the State of Goiás, Brazil

    2003
    Fellow of University College London

    2002
    Honorary Doctorate, Norwich University of the Arts

    2002
    Honorary Doctorate, University of East Anglia

    1999
    Ordem do Rio Branco from the Brazilian Government

    1996
    Appointed fourth Associate Artist, National Gallery London (1997-2000)

    1986
    Invited to Burgdorfer Bildhauer-Symposion, Switzerland - The Human Image of Today

    1985
    Head of Fine Art, Norwich School of Art, Norfolk (1985-89)

    1973
    British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, London

    1970
    First Prize, Goiás Biennale. Selected to represent Brazil at the São Paulo Biennale