Biography
Blake Prol Barbosa (b. 1995, Galicia, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist and printmaker based in Manchester, UK. Working across drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles, and installation, their practice explores themes of queerness, religion, otherness, and community.
Drawing on Christian iconography, philosophy, and lived experience, Barbosa investigates how inherited symbols can be reinterpreted through contemporary queer perspectives. Their work combines research, making, and craft traditions to question ideas of belonging, exclusion, and collective identity.
Alongside their studio practice, they are Co-Founder and Co-Director of 1838 Collective Ltd, a Manchester-based not-for-profit arts organisation supporting emerging artists through exhibitions, workshops, and professional development.