João Carqueijeiro


João Edmundo Lemos Carqueijeiro was born in Lobito, Angola on 25 February 1954. He is a Portuguese plastic artist.
Until he was twenty years old he lived in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique and in 1974, after the Carnation revolution, he went to Porto, Portugal.
It was there that, in 1982, he concluded his High Graduation in Drawing at the Cooperativa Árvore. He also graduated and specialized in Wheel, Raku and Glazes at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in Catalonia.
He has taught Ceramic Arts since 1985.

Selected works

A small selection of some of works of João Carqueijeiro divided by categories.

Sculpture (''Árvores'' - ''tree'' series)

Sculpture (colored clay)

Plates

Collective exhibitions