Manuel Calvo
- (Palma, 1974)
Degree in Engraving from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Madrid and in Artistic Ceramics from the ESD in Palma de Mallorca. Multidisciplinary artist with works in illustration, comics, ceramics, engraving, sculpture and music. In his early 90's he participates as a guitarist in two albums of the rock group "Rag Cutter" and as a freelance illustrator for the newspaper Ultima Hora and the magazine Artedrez among others.
He is finalist in the comic contest Art Jove 2002 and is selected in the program Noves Presències 2009 with the individual exhibition Anopheles of sculpture and drawing in the gallery Maneu, with whose works he exhibits in the Consell de Mallorca, C.C. Sa Taronja in Andratx, Palmyra Sculpture Centre and in the XIX Certamen de dibujo Gregorio Prieto in Madrid. Since 2007 he collaborates as a musician for performances and video art and between 2008 and 2012 he co-directs the multidisciplinary art space Ca´n danús in Palma de Mallorca. He currently lives and works in London where he self-publishes comic fanzines and works in illustration and ceramics.