Creative Macau

Center for Creative Industries

Visual Arts

Alice Costa (LiLi)

Alice Leonor das Neves Costa, 55 years old, born and studied in Macau. She obtained a law degree in 2004 at University of Macau. She then started her law practise and got a magistrate course for two years and became the  first local female judge of Macau.

She started painting many years ago, but then stopped for a while until she joined a painting class at CPM (Casa Portugal em Macau) taught by Joaquim Franco. She started off doing figurative painting and then moved onto abstract painting.

Alice mostly uses raw material in her painting such as clay, sand and minerals, creating textures in most of her paintings.

Exhibitions

“22” 22nd anniversary members collective exhibition

28th August — 27th September, 2025

In everyday language, we often unintentionally use tautologies but in art, they become a powerful and inspiring expressive technique. This exhibition explores the possibilities of “tautology”: is it a limitation or a liberation? Is it meaningless repetition, or a self-affirmation with hidden meanings? In language, “tautology” manifests as statements that repeat a concept with different […]

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“21st Century” 21st Anniversary Members Collective Exhibition

27th August — 28th September, 2024

Opening: 27 August (Tue) 18:00 – 20:00   Art has been categorized into different periods, styles, and doctrines over the past few centuries, such as the Renaissance, Baroque style, Pop Art, Contemporary Art, and so on. These distinct artistic movements emerged in response to the social phenomena of their respective times. The origins of art […]

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