I was born on May 1, 1973 in the City of Buenos Aires. I come from a multicultural home, as my maternal grandparents were artists, since I was little I approached ceramics as a material of expression. I have lived since I was six years old in the north of Argentina, in Jujuy, a province bordering Chile and Bolivia.
I studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires and Technique in Artistic Ceramics at the School of Ceramics No. 1 of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2010 I was a visiting student at the Institut für Künstlerische Keramik und Glas (IKKG-Germany). I participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions; I was selected in 2012 to participate in the Jujuy-Salta Contemporary Art Work Clinic and the Jujuy-Ushuaia Interfaces Program, both organized by the National Arts Fund. In 2016 I won the Bicentennial Scholarship for the creation of the FNA.
I am currently a ceramics teacher at the School of Fine Arts and at the University of Design. I work on projects with pottery communities of indigenous peoples in the region where I live. I am currently working with women potters from the Chané community.
I was born in 1973 in the city of Buenos Aires form a multi-cultural family, My grandparents from my mum's side were artists. I was bound to ceramics and pottery as a way of expression from an early age.
I live, since I'm 6 y / o in the state of Jujuy, Argentina, a place with stunning landscapes and an alive native culture, bordering with Chile and Bolivia.
I studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires and ceramic techniques at the National school of ceramics of Buenos Aires having displayed my work in several private and collective exhibitions since then.
I was an invited fellow student in 2010 at the IKKG (Institut für Künstlerische Keramik und Glas) Germany.
I was appointed to join the Residence of Contemporary Art at the region of Salta / Jujuy and to the “Programa Interfaces” Jujuy / Ushuaia both organized by the National Arts Found of Argentina having won the scholarship of artistic creation from the same institution in the year of 2016.
I currently am a ceramics teacher at the School of fine arts of Jujuy and at the University of Design of Salta.
I am involved in projects with traditional ancestral pottery-making communities in the region where I live, specifically working with vulnerable women of the Chane ethnic group, north Argentina.
flodelosandes@gmail.com | Ceramic Art and Design | San Salvador de Jujuy | Argentina