Research Catalogue

Luisa Menano is a scholar and artist.   She has earned her Ph.D. from Southampton University, U.K. at Winchester School of Art.  Her research revolved around uncertain fragments of memory encompassing:  hidden memories from childhood to adulthood, exploring the relationship between time and place in a tangible direction with motherhood, displacement, and diaspora.

Luisa has supervised Master's degree candidates at Fine Art Faculty, Porto University, Portugal.

Luisa has taken part in exhibiting her art pieces globally. She has shown and delivered a paper at the 4^th International Student Triennial in Marmara University, Turkey.   In 2013 she exhibited in the“10 Days, Winchester – Creative Collisions”, at Winchester Cathedral, (U.K) presenting an installation piece “Dwelling Times”.  Recently she participated in the “IV International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art”, Poland. Luisa has been awarded a prize at XII Biennale Vila Nova da Cerveira, Portugal, in 2003 for her video art piece. She has also some of her pieces in private collections.  Luisa has vast experience of teaching and has lectured in Fine Art, Fine Art Video, Design, and Contextual Studies at Hastings College of Arts and Technology, Fareham College. Prior to joining ECAE, she was responsible for the Sculpture Department at Eastleigh College, teaching BTEC Level 3, Foundation Diploma Level 3, and Foundation Degree Level 5, validated by Winchester University. Her creative practice is interdisciplinary and embodies a wide range of artwork and production such as photography, 3D sculpture, drawings, video, sound, and installation.

Her artwork are in private collections such as: Fine Arts Mahtma Gandhi Institute, Mauritius; Fundação PLMJ. Portugal; Biennale Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.