Luísa Queirós

Luísa Queirós (* before 1975 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese painter .

She has lived in Cape Verde since 1975 with her husband Manuel Figueira , whom she met at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon . Together with other students from Africa they became involved in political resistance against the Portuguese dictatorship and colonialism.

Six months before Cape Verdean independence in 1975, she moved to Mindelo with her husband Manuel Figueira . In the following years they played a key role in the revival of the arts and crafts of Cape Verde.

Already in Portugal and then in Mindelo, in addition to her artistic work, she worked for decades as a teacher of drawing , painting , batik and weaving . She also wrote illustrated children's books, for which she was honored with a UNESCO award. She also received the Gulbenkian Foundation Children's Literature Prize for her book "Saaraci, o ultimo Gafanhoto do deserto" (Saaraci, the last grasshopper in the desert) in Lisbon in 1998 .

Since 1989 Luísa Queirós has presented her works in numerous joint and solo exhibitions in Cape Verde, Brussels , Lisbon , Seville , Paris , Boston and Washington .

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• Luísa Queirós' work at a glance