Artists

Marinela was born in Marinha Grande, Portugal.

 

She holds a degree in Plastic Arts of the High School of Technologies, Management and Art of Caldas de Rainha.

 

She did a course in cartoon cinema at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and qualified from the Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria.

 

She is a founding member  of the Cultural Association Cisco and the Theatre  Group Fuga de Gatas (Portugal)           

 

Currently she is teaching at  ISAC – Instituto Superior de Arte e Cultura em Maputo.

Mário Macilau was born in recently independent Mozambique, during the most critical phase of the civil war. His family faced many financial difficulties and moved from Inhambane province to the capital Maputo in search of better living conditions. When Macilau was 10 years old he started working in a small supermarket where the clients were the medium and upper class for whom he washed cars in a parking lot and helped carrying their shopping bags.

Already as a child he became interested in photography. His career as professional photographer started in 2003 and was confirmed in 2007 when he exchanged his mother´s cellphone for his first camera.

Exhibitions/Workshops/Prizes

His first exhibition was in 2007 in Canada, where he organized during three months workshops for children at the Roberts Creek Elementary School. In 2008 he was selected to be part of the African Photography and Curator Encounters, organized by the Goethe Institute. He won a scholarship for the Market <photo Workshop in Johannesburg, but was not able to conclude due to accommodation difficulties. Currently Macilau has regularly his work exhibited abroad: Malaysia, China, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Zimbabwe, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. He obtained more than 10 international prizes.

He recently obtained the second prize of Courier International where his works were exhibited at the Belgian Parliament on the occasion of the European Development Day.

He is considered by the Irish Government as one of the emerging photographers of the African continent. His works were selected for the exhibition VOICE OF AFRICA.

He became final in BESphoto and obtained a production scholarship of Euro 7.500.

He became final in KL AWARD, Hassel Blad Award, Photo África, Phodar Bienal in Bulgaria.

Macilau did essays on Bangladesh, Nigeria, South Africa, China Canada, Spain and Mozambique. Currently he has a scholarship from the Spanish Embassy to develop an exchange project between Mozambique and Spain with a Spanish photographer. The project will result in an exhibition.

MARJORIE WALLACE

MUTAPO POTTERY

PORCELAIN PIECES

Graduated from Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town, Marjorie Wallace is a talented ceramicist. She produces fine porcelain objects inspired by the traditional baskets that remind her of her youth, of which she scrapes, compresses and carves with drawings and linear designs. In a country where supply and resources are a constant problem, Marjorie Wallace opens her pottery to other ceramcists and trains young crafters.

MARJORIE WALLACE

Born in Bulawayo in 1957.

Studied Art with Josephine O’Farrell.

1975-78 Michaelis School of Art, University of Cape Town.

1979 Harare – lectured for 10 years, including at the Harare Polytechnic.

1991 Created Mutapo Pottery.

Lives and works in Harare.

Inspired by her childhood memories on the tradition of basket-making, Marjorie Wallace creates ceramic pieces that imitate the woven quality of the baskets. A talented ceramicist, graduated from Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town, she works with ceramics for more than 23 years at her studio Motapo Pottery in Harare, Zimbabwe.

There she produces fine porcelain bowls inspired by traditional baskets. Each creation is scratched, compressed and carved with drawings and linear designs.

"I liked baskets from an early age. I have memories of the people that made them: how they sat, where they found the natural fibre and what they looked for when they found it. We had baskets hanging on the walls of our house and we used them", she states. "When I started decorating ceramics, I thought more and more about the baskets, how they looked and how they are woven. They are also containers. I saw my work as not being different to that of the basket makers."

She obtains the raw materials for her ceramics from the region. The kaolin comes from South Africa, the bentonite from Mozambique and feldspar and silica from Zimbabwe. The materials for the glazes are also obtained in the region.

EXHIBITIONS

Tapestries, Textiles, Ceramics and Jewelry, Gallery Delta

Paintings and Textiles, Gallery Delta

1997 Textiles and Ceramics, Gallery Delta

1990 Textiles and Ceramics, Gallery Delta

1999 Festival Exhibition, Gallery Delta

1999 New Years Eve of the New Millenium, Gallery Delta

2000 Gallery Delta – 25 Years, Gallery Delta

2000 Vision of Earth, Gallery Delta

2001 Earth/Fibre, Gallery Delta

2002 Earth and Water, Gallery Delta

2003 Love, Peace and Democracy, Gallery Delta

2003 Ceramic Mosaic on a column of a public building in Cincinatti

2003 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

Collector's Exhibition, Gallery Delta
2004 Harare International Arts Festival, Zimbabwe National Gallery

2004 Old and Modern, Gallery Delta

Annual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2005 Harare International Arts Festival, Zimbabwe National Gallery

2005 Gallery Etch, Aabrenraa, Denmark

2005 Books, Words and Writings, Gallery Delta

2005 Gallery Delta, 30 Years

2005 Small Works, Gallery Delta

2005 Don Quixote, Gallery Delta

Small Works, Gallery Delta

2006 Harare International Arts Festival, Zimbabwe National Gallery

2006 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2007 Small Works, Gallery Delta

2008 “Suite” with Helen Lieros, Gallery Delta

2008 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

Selected Collection, Gallery Delta

2009 34 More Years, Gallery Delta Charity Exhibition

2009 Anual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2010 Gallery Delta 35 Years, Gallery Delta

2010 Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2011 Art in Zimbabwe Today, Gallery Delta

Anual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2012 Past and Present – A Retrospective Perception, Gallery Delta

2012 Small Works, Gallery Delta

2013 Selected Collection, Gallery Delta

2013 You and I, Gallery Delta

2013 Platform Gallery in Habitat, Londres

2013 Anual Summer Exhibition, Gallery Delta

2014 'Guilda' Exhibition in Cape Town, Cape Town World Design Capital

2014 Exhibition África is Now Design Indaba África is Catergorical!

Martinho Fernando

Martinho Fernando was born in 1965 in Malehice, Gaza province.

He started working as a photographer in 1973 for the Publicity Department of the former Ministry for Information. In 1984 he moved to the Photographic Training and Documentation Centre, where he currently works as a photo reporter. In 1978 he obtained a scholarship for Italy where he studied still life photography.

He is a funding member of the Mozambican Photographic Association.

Collective Exhibitions:

  • 1983 - Fourth Congress of Frelimo part
  • 1984 - As nossas crianças
  • 1989 - Concurso Habitat e Meio Ambiente
  • 1996 - Nampula, Dois olhos e Mil vistas ( with photographer Naita Ussene)
  • 2002 - Iluminando Vidas, Moçambique, Suiça, Portugal

Publications

His works are published in:

  • Karingana wa Karingana
  • Il Mozambico Contemporâneo Visto dai suoi fotografi “Milano” 1991
  • Moçambique a Terra e os Homens, Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia, 1982
  • Duemilastagioni Torino, Eutostudi Editrice 1990 – 07, p3
mathe

Adelino Mate Sarafim of Mathe artistic name, was born in 1973 in Lourenço Marques, Maputo today. Since his childhood, dedicated to the art of making beautiful, building wire and manufacturing of cars of clay dolls and other artifacts.

Son of father carpenter by profession and was a dancer and mother farmer, chorine and collector of works of craft, is encouraged by his mother to learn the art of sculpting.

In 1990, during the school holidays attending the studio of sculptor Zaccheus, and in 1992 the workshop of Ndlozy.

After completion of basic level of general education, dedicase in full gear. Works of wood and more recently transformed into weapons sculptures.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 1996 - Youth Clamour - Mozambican Association of Photography - Maputo
  • 1998 - ”I won't be silent” - Portuguese Cultural Centre - Maputo
  • 1998 - “Bonding” - Locus Sollus Gallery - K.C. (EUA/USA)
Public Monuments
  • 2004 - Monument of Hope for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS - Praça 21 Outubro - Alto Maé - Maputo
  • 2005 - Tree of Life - British Museum-London - England
  • 2005 - Ndlopfus - Mozal Association for Cummunity Development - Matola Rio
  • 2006 - Bow of Hope for an Education free of HIV/AIDS - Secondary School Nelson Mandela - Matola Rio
  • 2008 - Bow of Hope for an Education free of HIV/AIDS - Industrial Institute Armando Guebuza - Matola Rio
Awards
  • 1995 - Honorable mention - National Fine Arts Contest Discoveries
  • 1997/98 - International Fellowship in the Visual Arts, International Contest organized by The Untited Information Agency and Mid America Arts Alliance, EUA/USA
Working Visits
  • Swaziland, South Africa, USA, Italy and England giving talks in Art Universities.