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Fernandez Hernandez

My work explores the intersection of art and faith. Through geometry and radiant light, I seek to create paintings that honor reverence while speaking to a contemporary audience. ​ My paintings explore the tension between two symbolic grammars: the modern contextual use of symbols as signs to be remixed and the believer’s grammar, where symbols carry fixed meaning inseparable from their scriptural purpose. ​ I extract and experiment with motifs from sacred art, transforming them into non-narrative, numinous abstract cosmologies utilizing bold color and geometrical shapes. ​ My paintings are a form of devotion, opening a meditative space that embraces both a secular and spiritual audience in the experience of the spiritual atmosphere of the numinous. They transcend the ordinary by visualizing Western Christian doctrine through a universal visual language that is abstract, symbolic, and contemporary.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Edinburgh

www.antoniofernandez.co.uk

My work explores the intersection of art and faith. Through geometry and radiant light, I seek to create paintings that honor reverence while speaking to a contemporary audience. ​ My paintings explore the tension between two symbolic grammars: the modern contextual use of symbols as signs to be remixed and the believer’s grammar, where symbols carry fixed meaning inseparable from their scriptural purpose. ​ I extract and experiment with motifs from sacred art, transforming them into non-narrative, numinous abstract cosmologies utilizing bold color and geometrical shapes. ​ My paintings are a form of devotion, opening a meditative space that embraces both a secular and spiritual audience in the experience of the spiritual atmosphere of the numinous. They transcend the ordinary by visualizing Western Christian doctrine through a universal visual language that is abstract, symbolic, and contemporary.

Previous Experience

Antonio Fernandez Born 1989, Caracas, Venezuela Lives and works in Edinburgh, UK Website: www.antoniofernandez.co.uk ​ ​ Residencies & Professional Practice ​ 2024 – 2026 Artist-in-Residence, Outer Spaces, Edinburgh, UK Full-time development of artistic practice. Structured residency providing dedicated studio space, resources, and uninterrupted time for research, experimentation, and the production of new work. ​ 2019 Co-founder & Lead Artist, Nomads Collective, Birmingham, UK Founded and directed the collective with poet and artist Ahmed Magare. Secured an a-n Artist Bursary for a nine-month collaborative programme exploring immigrant experience through mixed-media works, monthly zines, poetry, and sensory installations. Established a studio base at The Old Print Works, developed public outputs (website and printed editions), and managed funding, budgeting, and production. ​ Selected Exhibitions & Projects ​ 2024 Castle Mills: Then & Now | Whose Gallery is it Anyway?, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, UK (group exhibition) ​ 2023 Group Exhibition, St Cecilia’s Hall Concert

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