About
Art that asks no permission — only space.
Biography
I was born in the south of Spain, in Cádiz — a city where history and light dwell between the sea and the stone. My father was a stonemason, and from him I learned, from childhood, the ancient crafts of stone carving. That early experience, combining the rigour of manual work with the contemplation of time, was the seed of my sculptural vocation, though the path was not direct.
I am a Spanish-British sculptor, with studies and a professional life split between Spain and the United Kingdom. I grew up in the years following the Franco dictatorship, in a society slowly awakening to democracy. That context shaped my commitment to social justice and humanism. For years I worked as an urban planner, designing spaces intended to improve people’s quality of life. That period taught me to think of space as a language — the relationship between form, function and community. In 2012 I decided to leave that career to devote myself fully to sculpture.
My formal artistic training began at the City of Bath College, where I studied sculpture, printmaking and jewellery. I later earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Since then I have developed a sculptural practice centred on combining materials such as marble, bronze, steel and polyester resin, using traditional techniques that reclaim craftsmanship as a political and poetic act.
I am a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and have exhibited in venues such as St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tate Modern and the Royal Over-Seas League. Many of my works have been conceived for public space, in places such as Bishop Square (Liverpool Street), Broomhill Sculpture Park and Chelsea Parade Ground.
My work proceeds from abstraction, yet is deeply bound to history, identity and the invisible structures that shape our societies. I explore the presence of an absence — the tension between what was and what remains, between the intimate and the collective. In my sculptures I seek a dialogue between material and memory, politics, body and landscape.
I live between London and Cádiz, keeping studios in both cities, together with an ongoing collaboration with a workshop in China. In these contexts, so different from one another, I find complementary stimuli: the intimate and the monumental, the ancestral and the contemporary, the urban and the ritual.
To sculpt, for me, is a way of thinking and of being in the world. It is a search — a way of touching what cannot be seen.
My artistic practice
(Artist Statement)
Sculpture, for me, is a form of resistance. A way of listening to time. I work with stone, metal, resin and memory. Each material holds its own history and demands an honest response. I do not seek to dominate matter, but to establish a dialogue with it.
I learned the crafts of sculpture beside my father — a stonemason of the old kind, for whom manual work was also an act of presence. Later, as an urban planner, I came to understand that space is not merely volume: it is emotion, movement, politics. That tension between the intimate and the collective, between the ancestral and the contemporary, runs through my practice.
My sculptures are abstract, yet deeply charged with history. They speak of the body and its absence — of what remains when we are gone. I use traditional techniques because I believe in the transmission of knowledge, in the gesture that resists obsolescence. I am interested in exploring the invisible structures that sustain us: memory, perception, shared silence.
I work from the symbolic, but always with my feet on the ground. Some works invite contemplation; others, interaction. In all of them I try to create layers of reading — levels of depth not exhausted by a first glance. May the form invite, but also unsettle. May it move, but also question.
I live between London and Cádiz — two geographies that have taught me to inhabit the border between languages. At that intersection I find the pulse of my work: sculptures born of craft, yet aspiring to speak about the present, about who we are and what we leave behind.
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