Agata Cardoso has been using photography as her primary medium since her studies at Art School, she photographs the female form and her subject matter lies within the many complexities of the female body and identity. Agata's photographic work has appeared in various national and international publications; most recently her "Breast Cancer Series" appeared in the London Independent Photography Magazine as well as her images being published in a book in association with the Lavender Trust Breast Cancer Charity.

 Agata Cardoso's work explores the many complexities of the female body and identity. She chooses to use traditional black and white silver-based techniques of developing as opposed to digital. This is because she feels digital photography can appear too polished and instant. Because of her subject matter her aim is to move away from the perfect print and the airbrushed quality that is mostly associated with the presentation of the body in glossy magazines. Instead she creates grainy and textured images that are rawer and carry more truth than an airbrushed over-produced digital image. She is fascinated by the body's unique form and its ability to change, whether through surgery or naturally with age. The artist's aim is to show the female body from a different perspective using ambiguity to explore boundaries imposed on us by the culture that surrounds us.

Although the medium of Photography plays a key role in Cardoso's work, she has recently produced a new body of work which consists of sculptural, mixed-media pieces, "Repulsively Feminine" explores the taboo of female sexuality and could be described as her most experimental yet which will be exhibited at the Redgate Gallery London in October

"The process of making these works were very tiresome and time consuming not to mention painful at times, with caluses on my hands and sore fingertips from all the needle pricks. I always get a real sense that woman's crafts are a bit undervalued, you go to boot sales and charity shops and you see embroidered dollies and table clothes hidden in the corner-out of fashion and no one wants them! my aim I guess is to put these 'old woman's past times' in view, with a relevance and purpose to contemporary art."

Agata Cardoso and artist Trevor Taylor have recently come together to collaborate on three new film pieces entitled "Eternally in the presence", "I came I saw I crawled", and "Pulling wool". These pieces of work can be viewed on this site and also on www.trevtazzietaylor.blogspot.com

For all enquires please contact the artist directly:   agata.cardoso@hotmail.co.uk