Marta Figueiredo

Marta Figueiredo is an Australian-Portuguese multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Naarm/Melbourne whose practice spans experimental design, sculpture, installation, public art and performance. Trained as an architect in Portugal and the UK, she moves between object, body and space, using unexpected materials, exaggerated scale, colour, softness and shifts in function.

In 2024 she received the Australian Furniture Design Award for Chronicles of Resilience, a participatory sculptural cabinet developed with eleven people affected by endometriosis. Her work has been shown at Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney Contemporary, Milan Design Week and Collectible Brussels, and she researches with human geographer Dr Elisabetta Crovara on chronically ill women’s experience of working from home.