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Multidisciplinary contemporary artist

María Ortega

" You break your heart into a thousand pieces and throw them into space "

Logo María Ortega

Multidisciplinary contemporary artist

María Ortega

" You break your heart into a thousand pieces and throw them into space "

Artistic profile

I begin my journey in the textile world hand in hand with design, on the basis that creation in this area is not only a corporeal wrapping but goes further. The search for new creative horizons is what leads me to reflect on the matter since the beginning of a job in the field of design implied the first investigation on new fabrics and the senses that they awakened. Hence, "textile creation" soon manifested itself as an inescapable starting point. For a few years, in my haute couture studio, I experimented on bodies and volumes, almost sculptural. All this would become a gateway to what is now called "artwear" and art in motion ...

Born in Madrid, she studies classical and contemporary dance. Aspiring to the National Ballet and classical dance teacher. She studies design and styling at the Official School of Design and Fashion in the same city. She works as a fashion designer and stylist with prestigious designers and for big brands. She collaborates in the Pasarela Cibeles for several years. Window dresser in special projects for Harrod's (London).

She sets up her own design and haute couture workshop to work exclusively for international brands. She collaborates in specific projects for the world of entertainment and theatre. Styling for music clips and for image advice to numerous national artists. She studies textile arts, sculpture and printmaking in various specialist courses in London. She collaborates in Consuelo Vinchira's workshop in Madrid. She studies and specializes in artistic photography at the EFTI. New digital techniques courses. Tapestry and silk painting courses. Journalist contributions for specialized magazines and websites. Textile Art Teacher (specialized courses for adults and children).

If you are only going to one exhibition this year..

Then I urge you to visit the new Janelle Awkward exhibition in lower east side New York. Photographs with layers upon layers of visual information. Total brain meltdown once you start analyzing Janelle Awkward's images. The exhibition here in New York was absolutely stunning and I can 100% recommend it.

- Jack Hornet, New York Rhymes

Absolutely stunning...

Janelle Awkward is on of the best photographers in our lifetime. She is able to capture our complex lives with simple motives. The new show at New York Center of Photography contains some of Janelle Awkward's best photos from her early period and up until 2010.

- Jack Hornet, New York Rhymes

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