Dr Patrícia Domingues
- Tutor (Research)
- Jewellery & Metal MA
Patricia is a jeweller and visual artist with a background in stone cutting. Situated between jewellery, installation, and sculpture, her practice is material-led, speculative, and philosophically oriented. It is rooted in tactile relationships with matter and guided by a critical poetics of materiality.
Dr Patrícia Domingues is an artist, researcher, and tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art. Her work explores the intersections between geological phenomena, material poetics, and posthuman ecologies. She holds a PhD in the Arts from the University of Hasselt and PXL-MAD School of Arts, Belgium (2022).
Domingues’ research examines how materials and landscapes are fractured, reconfigured, and entangled with human and technological processes. Working through field engagement, craft, and theory, her current work investigates the material ecologies of artificial intelligence within a more-than-human framework.
Domingues’ work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collections, including the MUDE – Museum of Design and Fashion (Lisbon), the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch (Amsterdam), and the RISD Museum (Providence, USA). Her practice has been recognised by international awards including the New Traditional Jewellery Award (Amsterdam, 2012), Talente Award (Munich, 2014), Mari Funaki Award for Emerging Artists (Australia, 2014), and the Young Talent Prize of the World Crafts Council Europe (Belgium, 2015).
Key details
School, Centre or Area
Gallery
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Research funding
Competitive Research Fellowship (Reverberations of the Earth), Sandberg Instituut (Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Amsterdam, 2022–2023
Fully funded Doctoral Fellowship (A Fracturing Practice), PXL-MAD Research / Hasselt University, Hasselt, 2016–2022
Awards
Award of the Gallery of Art in Legnica, Legnica, 2016
Young Talent Prize, European Prize for Applied Arts (WCC-BF), Mons, 2015
Mari Funaki Award (Prize for Emerging Artist), Melbourne, 2014
Talente Award, Munich, 2014
New Traditional Jewellery Award, Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam, 2012
Current and recent projects
The Entanglements of Craft: Rethinking Relationships with Materials and Tools in an Age of AI
In collaboration with Agnieszka Knap (Senior Lecturer, Konstfack University), Dr. Anneleen Swillen (Lecturer and Researcher, PXL-MAD School of Arts & Hasselt University). This transnational, collaborative project brings together three institutions to explore the concept of ephemeral entanglement through short research clusters and workshops. It interrogates the evolving nature of craft workshops and asks what kinds of material inquiries will shape future practices.
GeoAsemic Materialism: A Practice-led Framework Interrogating and Demystifying the Materialities of Artificial Intelligence
Project Lead: Dr. Jonathan Boyd (Reader, Head of Applied Art Research, RCA)
Co-Investigator: Dr. Patrícia Domingues
Technical Support: Samuelle Abani (RCA)
This project proposes a radical reassessment of AI, not as autonomous intelligence, but as a materially embedded, linguistically transformative, and ethically complex extension of wider extractive ecosystems.
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Exhibitions (selected, since 2014)
(2025) The Writing of Stones. Gallery Reverso. Lisbon, Portugal.
(2024) Schmuck 2024. Messegelände. Munich, Germany.
(2023) A Fracturing Practice. Brooklyn Metal Works. New York, USA.
(2022) A Fracturing Practice (Doctoral Defense). MAD-Gallery, PXL-MAD School of Arts. Hasselt, Belgium.
(2021) Kleureyck: Van Eyck’s Colours in Design. Design Museum Gent. Ghent, Belgium.
(2021) Modern Animism. Alcova Milano. Milan, Italy. A project supported by Chi ha paura…? and Gijs Bakker.
(2018) Imagined Erosion. Gallery Ra. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(2017) Loewe Craft Prize 2017. COAM. Madrid, Spain.
Publications
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Domingues, P. (2023). A Fracturing Practice. FORUM+, 30(1/2), pp. 46–53.
Domingues, P. (2021). Graticule. Passage Journal, 1(1), pp. 9–36.
Chapter in edited book
Domingues, P. (2025). Notes from the Ground. In: M. Jecu, ed., Stone Alive: A Cultural Interpretation of the Stone. Lisbon: Lisbon University Press.
Non–peer reviewed articles
Domingues, P. (2025). Reverberations of the Earth: More Complex Notions of Materiality. Sandberg Institute Research Fellowship
Selected Artefact / Collection
Domingues, P. (2024). Semiconductor Device N.2 [brooch]. Monocrystalline silicon and steel, 9 × 5 × 1 cm. RISD Museum, Providence. Mary B. Jackson Fund, Accession no. 2024.62.1.
Domingues, P. (2023). The Writing of Stones I [brooch]. Reconstructed stone, bio-resin, dust of malachite, lapis lazuli, amethyst, marble and yellow jasper, 16 × 8 × 0.5 cm. RISD Museum, Providence. Mary B. Jackson Fund, Accession no. 2024.62.2.
Domingues, P. (2018). Modern Animism [installation]. Reconstructed stone of malachite, lapis lazuli and turquoise, various sizes. Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch (Design Museum Den Bosch).
Domingues, P. (2012). Reflections on Landscapes [necklace]. Neoprene, Corian, thread, reconstructed stone of malachite, lapis lazuli and turquoise, 35 × 15 × 1.5 cm. MUDE – Design Museum, Lisbon.