From 1978 to 1981, she studied at the Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, a secondary school that specialises in the applied arts.

Her works are sometimes just subtle interventions or additions to an existing landscape.

Her smaller sculptures are often made from found metals and mass-produced goods.

She considers herself to be reinterpreting minimalism, which often involves subtle alterations to existing landscapes or objects.

The work of Fragateiro is represented in several Collections, such as the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear in Cáceres, Spain; the Colecção António Cachola in Elvas, Portugal; the Fundación Claudia Hakim in Bogotá, Colombia; the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo in Badajoz, Spain; the Museu de Serralves in Porto, Portugal; and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.