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Lizzy is a surfer and artist living in Peniche, west of Portugal. From the intimate connection with the ocean, the need to protect it has born.   

Lizzy started to get interested in environmental activism, acting individually as a volunteer for Surfrider Foundation (since 2011). Beyond beach cleaning, Lizzy has been promoting workshops and volunteer activities of environmental education, to explore the potentialities of marine litter as raw material.

Professionally, Lizzy works as a fulltime illustrator, using illustrations dedicated to surf to convey ecological messages that speak about preserving water sources, nature, the sea and planet Earth.

 

However, in 2021 Lizzy felt the urge to work with her hands and to have a direct contact with the raw materials and textures, so she proposed herself a challenge: to create pieces out of trash and reused materials, helping to solve the problem of marine litter in a creative way, adding aesthetics and artistic value.  

(R)HOPE is a coral reef created with ropes and wasted fishing cages collected on the beach. The main idea was to create a healthy reef vibrant with colors and life, starting from the root causes of its destruction - massive fishing practices.  

 

Coral reefs take up more carbon dioxide than Earth’s forests, so it’s urgent to protect and replant coral reefs to balance Earth’s temperature and biosphere. 

 

(R)HOPE is the hope for a more sustainable fishing practise in the future. A hope for protected sea waters and an invitation to transform trash into aesthetic pieces.

Exhibitions

2022         Keynote Speaker. IAC2022. Nausicaá. Bologne-Sur-Mer. France

2022         CARE. 8th of June - 8th July (Rove - Lisboa)

 

2022         Pristine Blue - 27th of June - 1st of July, Lisboa UN Side Event

 

2022         OCÉAN - L'exposition immersive (through participation in “Coeur battant”) 

 

2022         The Mermaid´s song (WSL MEO PRO PORTUGAL, Peniche, Portugal)

2021          European Night of Researchers. Pavilion of Knowledge (Lisboa, Portugal)  

2021          Portuguese Surf Film Fest (Culture House, Ericeira, Portugal)

 

Media exposure

2023         Long documentary ‘‘TEIA’’ de Sabrina D. Marques (by Maria & Mayer)

2021          Documentary “  Coeur battant”

2021          Documentary ‘‘Plastic Hike’’, do artista ‘‘the trash traveler’’ 

2021          TVI 24 (Portugal) - Serie “o mar é a nossa terra”  

2021          HBO (Spain) - Zero waste chef, ep. 1 

Prizes

2022         mARTE contest by Docapesca

2021          mARTE contest by Docapesca

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