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Marble for sculpting, painting and more

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Frede Troelsen (Denmark) always worked in granite. But he fell in love with the marble of Vila Viçosa. At the end of his residency he shipped a block of 3 tons to Denmark.

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Dragan Voidovic (Serbia) made floor mosaics. This one was exhibited on a square in Évora.
Caroline Wenning (USA) made her impressions in charcoal of a quarry.
Taryn Cassella (USA) was highly ambitious in her first experience with marble sculpting.
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Paul Gagner (USA) simulated marble in his paintings, and suggested Roman inscriptions that in fact are recipes or obscene words.
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Julia Malle (Austria) painted red lines on marble blocks.
Christine Laethem (Northern Ireland) used shards of marble for lithographs and installations. 
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Istvan Covacs (Hungary) used marble dust for small installations.
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Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde (Brazil, USA) made ink drawings on a mosaic of slabs.
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Ingrid Simons (Holland) used marble quarries as subject of her ceramics.
Annemie Bogaerts (Belgium, living in Holland) used marble dust for her floor mosaics. In one case she co-operated with Merel Holleboom (Holland).
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Jonathan Roson (Australia, currently living and working in London) made a marble pillow. See his own page on this website for more of his work.
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Jacobien de Rooij (Holland) made an x-large sized pastel crayon drawing (5x2m) of a waste pile. It was exhibited in Évora and Estremoz.
András Keskés (Hungary) was exited to paint on marble: it partly sucks the oil out of the paint and blurs fine lines.  In May 2019 he had an exhibition in Budapest.
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Marijke Schurink (Holland) created a necklace of marble
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Igor Reinhart (Switzerland) came several times to work with Estremoz marble.
Adriana Araujo (Brazil) left a trace of her presence on a dump place for marble In the scope of her PhD thesis on artistic interventions.
Luis Corchon (Argentina, USA) exhibited a 7 meters long painting in the abandoned marble quarry of Estremoz.  
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Stella Walley (UK) used marble dust to give a cork oak a new skin.
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Marcel Schellekens (Holland) painted a marble storage location.

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  • home
  • Obras Portugal
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    • info and rates 2020- OBRAS Portugal
    • Application - online
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    • Residents and projects (2004-2019) >
      • residents 2019
      • residents 2018
      • residents 2017
      • residents 2016
      • residents 2015
      • residents 2014
      • residents 2012, 2013
      • residents 2004-2011
      • selected highlights >
        • Sandra Trujillo
        • Erika Dahlen
        • Barinamo
        • Jonathan Roson
        • Ingrid Simons
        • Dasha Sitnikova
        • Scott Sherk and Pat Badt
    • Events; running, upcoming and past
    • marble related projects >
      • introduction
      • sculpting in marble
      • photo projects
      • performing in quarries
    • More information >
      • Local climate
      • History of the house
      • Nature around the house
      • megalithic monuments
    • How do I get to OBRAS Portugal?
  • Obras Holland
    • Info and rates 2020 - OBRAS Holland
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    • application - online
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    • nature around OBRAS Holland
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