A. Solo exhibition at Tension Gallery, 2025 Add to selection
Solo exhibition of "Within embodied systems (we can dance)" at Tension Gallery, presented as part of the 2025 Graduation Art Prize award. Installation. Ratchet straps, hooks, pewter.
B. Within embodied systems (we can dance), 2025 Add to selection
The work reconfigures space with ratchet straps and subtle embroideries, guiding movement and evoking internalized language. Amanda explores the body as a site of construction—relational, responsive, and shaped by material gestures. Her work reflects on displacement, connection, and how structures form through shared experience and encounter. Installation. Ratchet straps, embroidery, hooks and pewter. Photography: René Lazovy
C. Vibrant body, 2025 Add to selection
The work repurposes polypropylene sandbags once used as barriers, displacing their original function. Words like weight, delimitation, and control evoke how urban structures regulate bodies. In the gallery, the material sheds rigid definitions, opening space for new readings where artist and viewer co-create meaning through movement, experience, and interaction. Installation. Embroidery on reused polypropylene fabric, 166 × 245 cm.
D. Remember to consider the folds in your path and in your body, 2024 Add to selection
The work suspends a large tarpaulin across the space, forcing visitors to navigate its curves and deformations. The structure, held by red wooden poles and resting on found objects, creates tension between protection and collapse. The tarpaulin loses its usual function, becoming instead a tool for spatial experimentation and bodily engagement. Installation. Tarpaulin, wooden poles, ropes and bricks. Various dimensions.
E. The void where transformation takes place, 2024 Add to selection
The collages incorporate words and phrases tied to the act of cutting into material, exploring tensions like inside/outside and open/closed. The work weaves research into form, placing language in the cut itself — the newly opened space — as if words inhabit the in-between, the void where transformation occurs. Collage. Duct tape, label on plastic sheet, 29.7 × 21 cm (each).
F. Affective Objects, 2022 Add to selection
The work features three curvilinear concrete sculptures of varied sizes, inviting visitors to sit, lie, or interact without fixed functions. Each viewer defines meaning through personal experience. By using concrete—often tied to control—the sculptures resist urban rigidity, transforming the material into fluid, curved forms that open space for new relationships between body, matter, and environment. Sculpture. Reinforced concrete. Various dimensions.
Brazilian-born and London-based, Amanda Moraes Teixeira creates works that examine the body’s interaction with material and environment. Her work investigates conditions of displacement, processes of transformation, and how space and boundaries are negotiated.
Amanda recently completed her Master’s in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (UAL), where she received two graduation awards: the Graduation Art Prize Exhibition at Tension Gallery, with a solo show, and the The Spike x Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Writing Prize (2025). Her main exhibitions include La Hora Loca at The Good Rice, London (2025); A bruta delicadeza at Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre (2025); and TBF… at Hypha Gallery, London (2024).
EDUCATION
MA Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) [2025]
BA (HONS) Graphic Design, University of Hertfordshire (EBAC) [2022]
BA Business Administration, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) [2015]
SOLO EXHIBITION
Within embodied systems (we can dance), Tension Gallery, London, UK [2025]
AWARDS
Writing prize for Spike Magazine [2025]
Graduate Art Prize Exhibition – Tension Gallery [2025]
Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) Poster and Logo Competition 22+100 – Honorable Mention [2022]
International Design Award – Bronze Winner [2020]
GROUP EXHIBITION
La Hora Loca, The Good Rice, London, UK [2025]
Takeaway, The Good Rice, London, UK [2025]
A bruta delicadeza, Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2024]
TBF…, Hypha Studios, London, UK [2024]
See it. Say it. Unsorted. Central Saint Martins (UAL), London, UK [2024]
Sindicato de Artistas, Massapê Projetos, São Paulo, Brazil [2023]
Des.view, EBAC, São Paulo, Brazil [2022]
Poster Quadriennal Bardejov, Bardejov, Slovakia [2021]
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS
Sense of Space in Apparition: Ecstatic Vision of a Future Art Schools – UAL [2025]
Teaching Practice in BA Fine Art (XD Pathway) – UAL [2024]
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
La Hora Loca, The Good Rice, London, UK [2025]
TBF…, Hypha Studios, London, UK [2024]