Pedro Alves was born in Abrantes, Portugal in 1977, currently lives and works in Winchester, England.
In 2010 he completed his Fine Art degree from Winchester School of Art, in the discipline of painting. In the following years his creative practice takes a new direction towards sculpture and ceramics.
His making process engages intuitive possibilities, with shapes and forms continuously been pushed around — gradually over a period of time, until there is an evidence of something exquisite being created.
“ I am mostly inspired by the quality of ambiguity present in ancient artefacts, archaic figures, their worn condition, their incomplete narrative, the incomplete picture, a world of imagination. “
Pedro has exhibited in the UK and abroad, both part of group and solo shows.
2020 - Sandown Park Racecourse, Contemporary art Fair - Surrey
2019 - Nutshell art center - Winchester
2019- pre selected Royal Academy summer show
2018 - Made London - St Mary's - London
2018 - Omega gallery - St. Leonard's on sea - Hastings, Sussex
2018 - Consortium - Winchester
2017 - Winchester Discover Centre
2016 - The Granary Creative Arts Centre - West Meon, Hampshire
2016 - Royal Academy Summer show - London
2015 - CPRE Art Exhibition - Swallick Farmhouse - Basingstoke
2015 - Salisbury's Contemporary Craft & Heritage Festival
2015 - Living Craft, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
2014 - Untitled Art Fair - Old Town Hall, Chelsea – London
2014 - Everyman cinema - (solo show) - WInchester
2014 - Jewery St. gallery ( solo show) - Winchester
2013 - Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait 2013, Kings Place Gallery - London
2013 - Everyman cinema Winchester/group exhibition
2011 - Winchester Discover Centre gallery - Winchester
2011 - YMCA gallery, Winchester
2010 - Degree show, Winchester
2010 - Collective show with the Yard Artists – Winchester
2009 - Hyde Old Laundry ( 10 days event ) - Winchester
2009 - The Art house - Southampton
2009 - A hair in the gate II – Yard Artists show - Winchester
​2009 - Holy Trinity Church - Winchester
2008 - The Tallinn Winter Exhibition – Iceland
2008 - The Hague Red Cross summer Exhibition - "Victims of Armed conflicts" - Holland
2008 - The Affordable Art Fair - London - Battersea Park
2007 - Winchester College of Art - Winchester
2004 - Coimbra University Gallery – Coimbra, Portugal
Education
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2007-2010Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, BA (Hons) Fine Art Theory and Practice
2006-2007
Leicester College
Art and Design Foundation Studies Diploma
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1996-1999
Solano de Abreu College, Portugal
Art & Design Diploma
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Stockists
- Bebb Fine art Gallery - Ludlow, Shropshire.
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- athertongreenart gallery - Alton
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- Canvas gallery - winchester
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Press
- https://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/arts/raw-refinement/