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Blueprint of their hands

Cyanotype
Madeira, Portugal, 2026

Artworks

"In Madeira, I photograph the women before me and feel myself slowly becoming one of them."

Biography

Liliana Vieira at Magdalen Road Studios, 2026

"In Madeira, women's hands tell stories. My grandmother's hands. My mother's hands. Soon, my hands. My work documents the matriarchal lineage that shapes me, women whose labour built families, communities, lives. Through black and white photography and alternative processes, I trace the inheritance of feminine strength, the transformation I see in the mirror, the ways I am slowly becoming these women."

Artist Biography

Liliana Vieira is a Portuguese Fine Art Photographer whose practice centres on analogue photography. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024).

 

Liliana’s work has been exhibited both internationally and, in the UK, including at Caravel Gallery, the only contemporary art gallery in Madeira, Portugal, and across London. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Magdalen Road Studios, hosted by Magdalen College School in Oxford.

 

Through her photographic practice, Vieira explores themes of maternal lineage, matriarchy, and heritage, paying homage to the soil, labour, and traditions that shape her identity. Working with analogue processes, she documents the physical and emotional labour embedded in image-making, capturing not only her ancestors but also the behind-the-scenes gestures of developing, printing, and creating.

 

Her work situates itself between memory, materiality, and ritual, reflecting on how photography can act as both an archive and a form of ancestral storytelling.

Education 

Bachelor of Fine Art

Goldsmiths, University of London

2024 

Solo Shows 

Black and White

Magdalen College School

Oxford, United Kingdom 

2026

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What Could Have Been

Art Center Carvel Gallery

Funchal, Madeira Island

2025

Group Shows

Representation of People

The Oxfordshire Museum 

Oxford, United Kingdom

2025

Goldsmiths Degree Show

St James Hatcham Building 

London, United Kingdom

2024

This Way Up

Abingdon Campus

Oxford, United Kingdom

2021

Evolve 

Magdalen Road Studios

Oxford, United Kingdom

2019

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