Born in Lisbon, a city where she lived until 2013, Magda Delgado holds a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. She is represented in various public collections such as the Medeiros e Almeida Museum-House and the Fernando Pessoa House. She was a scholarship recipient from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2011) and her curriculum includes a significant number of individual and collective exhibitions.
Due to the financial crisis, she left Portugal and lived in several countries, including England, Germany, and Luxembourg. In 2018, she returned to England and now works between Nottinghamshire and Lisbon.
According to the artist, the feeling of inadequacy and conflict with the modern world has fostered a discord that is manifested in her creations. Concepts such as the Absolute; Mystery as a mystical vision; Asceticism; Human Condition; Beauty as a mentality and solace; Abyss; Transcendence and Redemption are aspects that are part of her work in the form of Nature-without-Human.
Her working process has substantially focused on Ekphrasis as a method, a “making” with an ascetic attitude, as well as a process to study previous procedures. In part, it is a reaction to the post-modern legacy that separates the artist’s body from the fabrication of the artwork itself and the presentation of their individual gestures to society.
