Biography
He is currently on the second year of MFA Creative Practice by Transart Institute. He studied painting, drawing, model drawing and scenography in Lisbon and attended the atelier livre of professor Pedro Morais. He studied arts management later. Media, style or theme does not define his works and it is the characteristic of his processes that is central to it. Some of the strategies he adopts in his work stresses meaning over aesthetics. Nevertheless is the condition of relating art with illusion on an existentialist way the imposed limit. The duality between visibility and invisibility, fantasy and reality, experimentation and reference, juxtaposed with a specific investigation of the materials, their limits and parameters, working within and against subjectively, are intrisic to his own philosophy. He focus on the way a practice or action can
develop into a work of art. In his latest series of works, lights, shadows, reflections, mirrors, turnings, spinning circles and disequilibrium are often used as an operational method in a search for sensations of numbness, vertigo, deception and seduction and how they can become sources of pleasure.
He received grants from Centro Nacional de Cultura in Lisbon and twice from Fundação Oriente. since the late 80's,
He has created a body of work that includes photography, video, painting, drawing, installation and objects.
Drummond currently lives in macau.
