Artist in Residence: Art & Craft Refúgio

Art & Craft Refúgio - Artist Residence 
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Introducing The Garden as Sanctuary, as first Artist in Residence for this program, I open the thematic with an exploration of paper and print—inviting participants to reconsider memory and experience through hands-on art making, participatory rituals, and the deconstruction of personal archives. Drawing on natural methodologies, with fungi as both metaphor and method, participants will reimagine loss not as disappearance but as transformation —emotional, ecological, and communal. 

This year's cycle of Art & Craft Refúgio acknowledges its location inside Jardins do Bombarda, Lisbon's former psychiatric hospital, and draws on the garden as sanctuary as a metaphor for the selected artists working methodology. As a site of slow labour, shared knowledge, and seasonal cycles, the garden offers a framework for making that prioritises process over product, attentiveness over extraction. Within these workshops, art & craft practices become acts of tending—stitching, weaving, shaping, and growing—through which participants can reclaim agency, memory, and embodied knowledge.

5th Feb - 9th April 2026
Thursdays 10.30h - 13h 
Sala de Ensaios, Jardins do Bombarda