Hello!
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, Art Director and Producer. My practice investigates the relationship between nature, human identity, and spirituality through a drawing-led approach.
My work combines traditional drawing techniques with digital media, resulting in intricate hand-drawn biro compositions that evolve into site-specific installations and immersive live performances. This hybrid methodology allows me to create visually layered narratives that reflect on personal and collective experiences. My practice is rooted in a deep engagement with place, media, and the fluidity of contemporary identity, aiming to foster dialogue and reflection through individual and collaborative environments.
Scroll down to discover the work I’ve produced:
Symphonasia explores how movement, AI, art, and music can unite in a shared immersive space.
Inspired by interactive drawing and musical composition, it harnesses cutting-edge AI-assisted computer vision to enable participants to create and share unique soundscapes, blending visual and musical phrases in real-time.
Funded by Media Cymru’s Seed Fund, this collaboration brings together composer Dr. Owain Llwyd and Campfire Digital, which specialises in AI.
FDUK 24
CULTVR hosts the first-ever live drawing performance.
The line work fills the dome in sync with my heartbeat, organic pulses, and stomach noises.
sgôr - score collective
COMMONPLACE
g39 Cardiff
Everyday things, familiar things. Things in common and those places we share. those links and connections we can find when we let them happen. More than ever, we are asking ourselves questions about art spaces in Wales - not just about their function or what they are, but also what they could be.
Tim Martin-Jones, Vitaliia Fedorova, Beth Greenhalgh, João Saramago, Tess Wood ,Robert Oros
Music: Teddy Hunter and Ya Yonder
Photo: Mahnaz Baoosh
THE THURSDAY SHOW
Inspired by mindfulness colouring books, this performance consists of projecting a traditional Portuguese doily onto large white balloons, creating a pattern to be coloured in. But instead of a peaceful colouring exercise, the performance piece embodies frustration: hidden fans keep the balloons in constant motion, turning a soothing task into one of irritability, tension, and instability.
It is a series of site-specific interventions across the Welsh landscape that confront the quiet violence of environmental exploitation. Focusing on coastal erosion and the enduring legacy of fossil fuel consumption, the work draws a visceral analogy between the wounded body and the damaged land, exploring betrayal as a rupture in the unspoken contracts of care we hold with ourselves, with others, and with the landscapes we call home. Through gestures of stitching, binding, and marking, Betrayal reflects on personal, societal, and ecological fractures—exploring what it means to care for a place after trust has been broken. Each intervention becomes an attempt to suture what has been torn open, and the complicated, messy urge to try and make things right again.
collaborative work
WHITSUNDTIDE
BIO GRAPHIA
During the lockdown period, people found ways of collaborating, creative ways of being connected. I was fortunate to revive a relationship with my sister, whom I have met few times in my lifetime. Despite her condition, she kept hiding how sick she was and kept creating. This piece is dedicated to her.
Bio Graphia is a collaboration between brother and sister João Saramago and Paula Pinto, Portuguese creatives in Wales and Portugal. The presenting work is an exploration of longing, Saudade and Hiraeth, to seek connection, belonging and meaning. Produced during the lockdown period, the short film of 3 minutes showcases contemporary dance choreographed by renowned former Gulbenkian ballet dancer Paula Pinto. Out of the need to reconnect, find home and explore identity, this short film was produced by João Saramago to set a bridge between Portugal and Wales, celebrating our shared heritages and encouraging connection.