Amelia Toledo

With a career that expanded over fifty years, Toledo explored multiple artistic languages, techniques, materials, and production methods.

[2][3] Her interest with the natural world is reflected in her choice of materials (ranging from rocks, to seashells, to snails, to soap bubbles) and landscape representations.

[7] She had her first solo exhibit at the Galeria Ambiente, in São Paulo, in 1957, only a year before she moved to London to study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.

[8] During the 1960s, she studied metal engraving with João Luís Chaves, and started experimenting with two and three-dimensional sculptural works, using both natural and industrial materials.

Her fundamentally experimental geometric, playful, and sensorial pieces of the time dialogue with the neoconcrete works of Lygia Clark and Lígia Pape.