ANDREA PORTELA MORENO

Andrea Portela Moreno was born in Spain and now lives in the Byron Bay area on Bundjalung Country in Australia. Taking her inspiration from urban environments, modern architecture and photography, Portela has been influenced by pioneers like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright in her hard-edged geometric abstraction works.

Raised in Madrid and living there until her mid thirties, Andrea was exposed to masterpieces by Velazquez, Goya, Picasso and Dali amongst others during regular trips with her mother to some of the world’s greatest galleries. From a young age, surrounded by books on painting, architecture and photography, art became a part of the fabric of her life.

After originally studying photography, she spent seven years working at major record labels in Madrid, working alongside national and international artists. By 2006 her life had brought her to Australia and she pursued opportunities to develop her creative work. She graduated from Byron School of Art in 2020.

Moving back and forth between Spain and Australia, and travelling extensively throughout the world, has contributed to Andrea’s expanding interests in specialist fields such as Minimal Art, Colour Field and Hard Edge (all of which are reflected in her work.) She has contributed to numerous group exhibitions, including Practice at Grafton Regional Gallery (NSW) in 2021, and was selected as a finalist in the BAM Art Prize in 2021. Andrea’s first solo exhibition “Vanishing Point” took place at the Tweed Regional Gallery in NSW at the start of 2024. 

ANDREA PORTELA MORENO WILL BE EXHIBITING AT ART KIND IN 2024

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