Inês Briz
Inês Briz develops a practice centred on painting and drawing, disciplines she has pursued since childhood and which have shaped her relationship with material, colour and gesture. She trained in ceramics and painting at Escola António Arroio, deepened restoration techniques at the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation, and studied drawing and painting at AR.CO and the National Society of Fine Arts. Moving between abstraction and figuration, Inês explores two central thematic axes: on one hand, questions of identity, bipolarity and the complexity of emotions; on the other, nature and the city. This duality — between inner life and the external world — runs through her work and shapes an intuitive, sensitive and deeply manual visual language. Throughout her career, she has worked in multiple creative contexts — from artistic production to visual education, as well as collaborations in editorial and fashion projects. This diversity of experience contributes to an open, experimental and detail‑oriented approach. Between 1998 and 2020, she presented her work in several solo and group exhibitions in Lisbon and Brazil, in spaces such as the Natural History Museum – Sala do Veado, Galeria Lagarto Pintado, Tivoli Fórum and Coletivo 284. In parallel, she collaborated on social projects in vulnerable neighbourhoods in Portugal and Brazil, where art served as a tool for encounter, expression and community care. She now dedicates herself exclusively to her artistic practice, exploring materials, surfaces and processes that deepen this relationship between emotion and territory, interiority and the external world.
