Julieta Rocha (b.1991) is a Portuguese artist and illustrator born in the Azores islands. Spent her childhood swimming in the ocean, writing, drawing mermaids’ comic strips, and making cakes with soil, flowers and leaves for her little brothers, with great success.
Infinitely interested in drawing, printmaking, geometry, the fragility of the paper sheet, light and darkness, the stillness and colours of the horizon, concepts of duality, repetition, serialisation, categorisation, and the subtleness, strength, smell and shine of the graphite. Uses references from her biography, botanics, geology, mythology, and fairy tales.
Believes paradoxes and stories are our closest attempt to truth.
Sees drawing both as a form of thought and a tool for mindfulness.
Sees words as tiny photographs we can put together as a film, and enjoy each frame with all the time in the world.
She works as a teacher, illustrator, and artist nowadays. At home, she still enjoys cooking, but with a bit less soil than before.
Fine Arts graduate at the University of Oporto, Portugal.
Guest student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Drawing student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.
Recognised work
2024 Children's Literature Illustration Prize Matilde Rosa Araújo, Portugal (honourable mention)
2020 Children's Literature Illustration Prize Pingo Doce, Portugal (honourable mention)
2010 Award for the Best First-Year Fine Arts Student, University of Oporto, Portugal
Exhibitions
2024 Sobre Verdes Sobre Cinzas, Casa do Sal, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, Portugal (solo)
2023 The First, The Gallery, Ribamar, Portugal (group)
2022 Dia Aberto às Artes, Paço d’Ilhas, Ericeira, Portugal (group)
2016 WHERE MY EYES HAD A REST, Udstillingsstedet Q, Copenhagen, Denmark (group)
2016 Mil e duzentos metros, Casa Oficina António Carneiro, Porto, Portugal (solo)
2016 THE THINGS WE BUILD, CACE Cultural do Freixo, Porto, Portugal (group)
2012 KRESBA?, Academy of Fine Arts of Prague, Czech Republic (group)
