Add Fuel

Born in 1980 in Cascais (Portugal), Diogo Machado, aka Add Fuel, is an artist with a degree in Graphic Design from Lisbon's IADE - Creative University. He began his career in design, before devoting himself to his artistic work in 2007 under the artist name Add Fuel to Fire. He developed a dark, fantastical universe populated by eccentric creatures. The following year, however, he took an interest in the aesthetic qualities of Portuguese tiles. So he shortened his pseudonym to Add Fuel, and set about hybridizing traditional Portuguese ceramic techniques with a complex, richly detailed contemporary aesthetic. His work has received worldwide acclaim and is the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at Galerie Itinerrance in Paris in 2019, Underdogs Gallery in Lisbon in 2021 and Galerie Subliminal Project in Los Angeles in 2022.