Elsa Gonçalves was born in 1956. Lives and works in Lisbon.

Sculptor, graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, is Ceramics teacher at Escola António Arroio in Lisbon. He has directed several workshops in the area of ceramic sculpture.

As an artist he has exhibited regularly since 1989. The forms created by Elsa Gonçalves, those she called “objects of an intimate cult”, are born from her “desire to find the other, uniting art to life through new rituals. Search, do, ritualize, repeat to find this other and be in conjunction with him.” According to her, the construction of these objects is a matter of course. also its construction – “that of life itself. In this construction it is necessary to It is the process of making that becomes ritualized, so that its experimentation, on the part of the spectator, is only possible. is It is fully understood when objects are felt, handled, touched as if it were the person who made them.