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Born in Buenos Aires and based in Brisbane, Monique Baqués is a visual artist whose practice moves across oil painting, collage, and mixed media, with colour as her primary language. Her work explores the tension between curves and straight lines, gestural mark and geometric form, fabric and paper, the figurative and the abstract.
Baqués trained at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and later completed a postgraduate degree in Arts Management at the University of Chile. Her life has taken her across Argentina, France, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Australia, and the creative richness of those multicultural experiences runs through everything she makes. She has exhibited widely across Argentina, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with works held in private collections around the world. Notable highlights include winning the Oxfam design competition in The Hague in 2004, representing Argentina at Art Expo Malaysia in 2010, and being selected by Brisbane City Council to exhibit at the City Square Library. |
Working in series since her twenties, Baqués gathers her ideas into collections that reflect her journey. Oil painting has been a constant since childhood. In her thirties she began incorporating fabrics and patterned papers into her work, a development that has since grown into an experimental practice in which textile, thread, and mixed materials become vehicles for stories that connect, provoke, and endure.
For Between the Threads, Baqués presents a series of intimate mixed media works in which each piece carries the story of a real woman. |