Graciela Machado (i2ADS/FBAUP, PT)
Graciela Machado, born in Porto, Portugal, graduated in Fine Arts Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) and earned a Master’s in Printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She holds a Ph.D. in Drawing from the University of the Basque Country, focusing on “Time representation within the image.” A Research Fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Foundation for Science and Technology, she is currently an Associate Professor at FBAUP and an integrated researcher at the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS). Graciela coordinated PURE PRINT/i2ADS (2013/2021), an international printmaking research platform, and leads the PURE PRINT ARCHEOLOGY interest group (2023-).
Her work explores historical printmaking techniques through a technological archeology approach, focusing on lesser-known 19th and 20th-century fotomechanical processes. Her research has led to sustainable, locally rooted methods for creating and preserving artworks. She publishes manuals, specimen books, and animations and shares her findings through workshops and publications, combining traditional and experimental methods.