Maria de Lima is a Brazilian-British artist currently based in Glasgow, working across video, installation and painting. She approaches video through a feminist lens to explore the many value systems embedded in language. Focusing on translation between Portuguese and English, she explores how the legacy of colonialism and its resistance leaves traces through the words people use.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Talbot Rice Residents, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 2024; Desde el Salón (From the Living Room), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2021); Toys for Survival, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (2020); Diaries, Chalton Gallery, London (2019); Outpost Film Open, Norwich (2019); INGEST/digest/excrete, [SPACE], London (2018); An exit soft to the touch, ANDOR, London (2016). She was part of the Talbot Rice Residents programme 2022-2024 and the recipient of the 2016 Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome.

Talbot Rice Residents provides time and support for early-career artists based in Scotland within the unique context of Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh.

The Talbot Rice Residents programme is part of the Freelands Artist Programme. The Freelands Artist Programme is a five-year programme that supports emerging artists across the UK in partnership with g39, Cardiff,PS², Belfast, Site Gallery, Sheffield and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Further information on this programme is available here.