João explores drawing as a time-based process, usually referring to mindfulness, endurance, resilience and healing, by perceiving the paper as a skin surface, he marks and paints with biro to create intricate line work in organic and fluid compositions.

He studied Graphic Design and Art and Heritage at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon until he moved to the UK in 2019.

In 2021 he was awarded the Artists Respond to The Now commission - Arts Council of Wales and Amguedffa Cymru - to create work that reflected on the human impact on the environment, resulting in a series of site-specific performances across the Welsh landscape.

João has been nominated for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2020 and has exhibited his work at Queer Artists Now in 2022 in London, at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, for the International Video Art Festival in Lisbon. He took part in ABERETWM for the 50th Anniversary of Aberystwyth Arts Centre in 2023, Trails at The Turner House in Penarth. He has performed live at CULTVR for the FullDome Festival 2024 in Cardiff and at G39 alongside Sgôr.

He works with Primary Schools across Wales as a Creative Practitioner to encourage pupils to explore art as a way for self-expression and learning, developing sessions with illustration, painting and filmmaking.

Since 2023, João has been a member of Sgôr, Cardiff artistic collective spawned by TactileBosch, where he explores performance to embody the ideas he's defined in his drawing practice. He is a current member of Cardiff Print Workshop, where he develops and produces his Linocut and printing stock.