The Three Islands is an artistic research and creation project initiated in 2021, proposing

a symbolic and physical connection between three Atlantic islands: Pico, Fogo, and Hilbre Island.

The work began as an individual exploration grounded in the practice of expanded drawing — integrating drawing, photography,

printmaking, writing, and the presence of the body in the landscape.

Pico (Azores) — An inhabited, mountainous island marked by a volcano 2,351 meters high, the highest point in Portugal. It represents the territory of memory and permanence. It was the first island visited, where the visual, sound, and walking records

began.

Hilbre Island(England) — A group of three small uninhabited islands in the Dee estuary, a nature reserve home to seals and migratory birds. It represents the territory of the threshold and crossing — the space between tides, between staying and leaving.

Fogo (Cape Verde) — An active volcanic island, whose last eruption occurred in 2014. It is the space of continuous creation and transformation. The journey to Fogo marks the next stage of the project, where the artistic gesture will confront living, moving matter.

These three places form a poetic triangle across the Atlantic, revealing different ways of inhabiting the planet.

In a second phase, the project opens to collaboration and exchange between artists, proposing a network of Atlantic artistic migrations. This collective phase will take shape within existing artistic and cultural structures or communities in each place, or through

the creation of new temporary groups that emerge from local contexts. Rather than imposing an external framework, the project seeks to listen to, learn from, and work alongside what already exists — cultivating dialogue and shared creation as forms of

belonging. Like birds and ocean currents, these creative gestures cross the sea and forge new connections between bodies, islands, and times. Integrated within the broader project “Maps of the Earth after the End”, The Three Islands investigates how artistic gesture can reconfigure the relationship between

humanity and ecosystems.

Creating networks of artistic collaboration between Portugal, Cape Verde, and Hilbre Island, UK.

Network of collaboration among Atlantic artists

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