Vasco Águas

One of Vasco's Águas most distant memories are, as a child, spending hours watching his grandfather Águas fusing lead sheets and turning them into sinkers which he used later for fishing. Or to be fascinated by the drawings that grandmother Cecília made to later transform into incredible embroidery. Like these ones, there are other memories and stories of his paternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother, whose abilities soon made him awaken to the most diverse crafts and to the need to keep them alive.

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Vasco Águas created his textile project in 2016, having since then developed medium and large-scale tapestries, in which he merges the techniques of macrame and manual weaving, essentially for private collections and some public spaces such as hotels and restaurants. In addition to a large number of anonymous artists and artisans that he follows and admires, he highlights Sheila Hicks, Anni Albers, Ann Hamilton and Beatriz González as main inspirations.