I’m a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow. Using a visual aesthetic driven by colour across film, installation, painting and text, my practice employs a feminist lens to explore the colonial imposition of language as a means to extend territory. I'm interested in how linguistic overlays can become sites where geographies and cultures intersect, and conflicting ideas inhabit our bodies. In part a reflection on personal experiences of early migration, this framework allows me to contemplate the reverberations of geography and a shifting relationship with a mother tongue on forging hybrid identities.
You can get in touch with me at: mariadelima [at] hotmail.co.uk

Education
2012 - 2015      PGDip Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools
2005 - 2008    BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Arts

Selected Exhibitions
2024     Talbot Rice Residents, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2024     Betwixt, Freelands Foundation, London
2021     Ex Roma V, APT Gallery, London
2021     Desde el Salón (From the Living Room) curated by Sol Calero, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2021     RA Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2020    Toys for Survival, Glasgow Women's Library, Glasgow
2019    Diaries, Chalton Gallery, London (solo)
2019    The Rough Cut with Elinor Morgan, film screening Tyneside Cinema, New Castle
2019    Outpost Members' Show selected by Jessica Warboys, Outpost, Norwich
2019    Outpost Open Film selected by Stuart Whipps, Outpost, Norwich
2018    INGEST | digest | excrete, with Nicole Morris, [SPACE], London (solo)
2018    Cleave, Laurieston Arches: Glasgow International 2018, Glasgow
2016    An exit soft to the touch, ANDOR, London (solo)
2016    December Mostra, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
2016    Modest Villa Immense Versailles, Kinman Gallery, London
2016    Rose, Tower, The Kennington Residency, London
2015    Outpost Members’ Show Selected by Nik Void, Outpost, Norwich
2015    Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools, London
2014    A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr, London
2014    Macy Dott: Publication Launch, Scawfell Street, London
2014    Conscientia: Latin American Consciousness, Lloyds Club, London
2014    IVI Art Party, IVI, London
2014    Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013    Art (After), ANDOR, London

Residencies and Awards
2022 - 2024    Talbot Rice Resident, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 
2020    A-N Artist Bursary
2019    Guildengate House Residency, Outpost, Norwich
2018    Arts Council England Project Grant
2018    Elephant Trust Grant
2016    Abbey Fellowship, British School at Rome, Italy
2015    Agnes Ethel Mackay Travel Award
2014    Peter Rippon Travel Scholarship
2010    Generator Projects Residency, Dundee
Curatorial Projects
2021    Living with..., publication co-curated with Nicole Morris. Featuring Kira Freije, Onyeka Igwe, Alicia Reyes McNamara and Katie Schawb
2019    |DIGEST|, radio broadcast co-curated with Nicole Morris, RTM.fm part of Artlicks Weekend Radio 2019. With contributions from Hana Janeckova; Hannah Leighton-Boyce; Holly Graham; Maria Farrar and Sofie Alsbo
2018    REGURGITATE, podcast co-curated with Nicole Morris, broadcast on Resonance FM. With contributions from Alberta Whittle; Alice Martin; Jasleen Kaur; Josie Cockram;  Katriona Beales; Rebecca Ackroyd; Rebecca Bellantoni and Susan Conte
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