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Graduated in Fine Arts at the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado [FAAP], in São Paulo, Renata Meirelles has, throughout her trajectory, constantly enhancing research and experimentation, from which spawn the bases for the creation of a unique constructive system that blends manual, digital and industrial techniques.
In a constant state of evolution, her works are built over time, incorporating new ideas and techniques in a feedback loop. Over this course, the artist makes use of various practices and references, conveying new meanings and applications to them while not, however, losing her identity.
In a production wandering among art, design and contemporary jewellery making, Renata combines the loom, crochet, laser cutting, thermal bonding and 3D printing along with fabrics and threads as the main raw material to create pieces from cutouts and hollowed wefts. Using an original language, she employs such tools to develop modular and timeless graphical patterns, such as needleless laces, that, even when scale varies, maintain their delicacy.
Organized and grouped by similarities in shape and constructive processes, those patterns originate families, which expand, reproduce, and break up into different times and spaces, originating installations, sculptures, panels, sceneries, objects and pieces that the artist defines as “wearable sculptures.” From those families arise collections and series that comprise unique pieces and their unfoldings, at times in partnerships with other artists and designers.
Although the borders among the areas are fluid, her work can be split into three large groups: collections, author jewellery, and projects.
MOREGraduated in Fine Arts at the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), in São Paulo, Renata Meirelles has, throughout her trajectory, constantly enhancing research and experimentation, from which spawn the bases for the creation of a unique constructive system that blends manual, digital and industrial techniques.
In a constant state of evolution, her works are built over time, incorporating new ideas and techniques in a feedback loop. Over this course, the artist makes use of various practices and references, conveying new meanings and applications to them while not, however, losing her identity.
In a production wandering among art, design and contemporary jewellery making, Renata combines the loom, crochet, laser cutting, thermal bonding and 3D printing along with fabrics and threads as the main raw material to create pieces from cutouts and hollowed wefts. Using an original language, she employs such tools to develop modular and timeless graphical patterns, such as needleless laces, that, even when scale varies, maintain their delicacy.
Organized and grouped by similarities in shape and constructive processes, those patterns originate families, which expand, reproduce, and break up into different times and spaces, originating installations, sculptures, panels, sceneries, objects and pieces that the artist defines as “wearable sculptures.” From those families arise collections and series that comprise unique pieces and their unfoldings, at times in partnerships with other artists and designers.
Although the borders among the areas are fluid, her work can be split into three large groups: collections, author jewellery, and projects.
Collections
With her textile production in the spotlight, the artist has displayed pieces of her collections in Brazil and abroad, besides receiving several awards and attending workshops to extend and enhance her techniques, strengthen the discourse and develop her poetry. A major and active presence in textile art groups and collectives, Renata has not only figured as the curator of some exhibitions on the subject, but has also taken part in and set off multiple actions to incentivize, develop and drive works in the area, contributing to develop the language in her own production and attracting national and international visibility to other textile artists.
Author Jewellery
Renata Meirelles started devoting jewellery more of her attention after being invited to display her creations out of her country. In addition to bringing works created within her collections into this universe, she developed pieces specifically within the jewellery field. Although textiles remain as the main raw material, her jewellery also incorporates materials such as wood, plastic and metals.
Coming from the fine arts field, the union with contemporary jewellery provided a pathway to create projects that use the body as reference in developing a new, artistic poetics within her research. Lectures, exhibitions and workshops on the subject have been part of her trajectory since the 1st Simposio de Joyería Contemporánea in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2012. That year marks the creation of Grupo Broca, a collective created by Brazilian artists united by the interest in contemporary jewellery, of which Renata has been a member since its inception.
Projects
Some pieces initially created for collections started to reach beyond the scale of the body to achieve new dimensions, exploring architectural, scenic and exhibition spaces. Such works propose an interaction between the environment and spectators. Sculptural and tridimensional, they may move with the wind, project patterns of light and shadows, or be intentionally modified by those who interact with them.
Renata’s trajectory also features projects developed in partnership with other artists, promoting a dialogue between different languages and processes that potentialize each other, in addition to custom-made works.
Interweaving
Regardless of whether based on her own or an external demand, all works by Renata Meirelles are underscored by the identity of the artist and maintain the essence of her creative process and constructive system: the use of modules; the combination of manual, industrial and digital techniques; experimentation with diverse materials; the quest for movement; tridimensionality; and the possibility of intervention by spectators.
A production in constant movement that transforms itself from one creation into another, in a feedback loop involving what has been, what is and what will be, bringing to life new compositions and arrangements in a interlacing of many processes.