Celia Mora is a Spanish painter based in London. She studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, completing her studies through an Erasmus Scholarship at the University of the Arts London (2017). She later completed postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Arts (2023), supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, which again supported her studies at Turps Art School (2024). In 2025, Mora undertook a residency programme with Soho Revue and received the Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship at Morley College.

Mora’s practice centres on classical figuration and still life, with a sustained focus on the male body. Working through a slow, layered oil process, her paintings emerge from abstraction into ambiguous, fragmented forms that draw on the meditative strategies of Baroque painting. By positioning herself as painter and her partner as model, Mora reconsiders traditional dynamics of gaze, power, and spectatorship, reframing masculinity as intimate, tender, and at times passive. Cropped bodies, reflections, and mirrored surfaces destabilise fixed viewpoints and challenge conventional ideas of desire and beauty. Still life motifs—vessels, marbles, and reflective objects—act as metaphors for bodily fragility and identity, opening space for alternative subjectivities to surface.

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