THE ART CLASS,  part of the Artist in Residency at the Community Hub, Aisgill Avenue, W14, London.

Fernandez was granted the AIR January-March 2024 by The Earls Court Development Company. Its theme was (and still is as the residency programme runs until the very end of 2025) Community Portraits.

The residency happened at the core of the EarlsCourt Community, the Community Hub where the very well attended Art Class happens, rain or shine,  every Tuesday evening.
Fernandez decided to take upon this challenge by offering strange and unconventional techniques to stretch in the participants the notion of what an evening art class is for: an art class is for doing the unexpected, taking risks and for accepting failure gracefully  as part of the process, enjoying the moment and fo sharing our creative time with others.

TOWPATH TALES, Union Canal, 2023.
A project lead and commissioned by Urbanwise.london. This project documented tales from the inhabitants to the Union Canal tow paths, present and past. 
For this occasion Fernandez created work needed for the informative flyers, website and banner with the children participating in Canalside Summer Scheme(Ladbroke Grove, W10), a sports charity that introduces local children to kayaking and canoeing in the Union Canal, among rock climbing and other sportive activities.  Fernandez was also commissioned portraits of a few of the present inhabitants of the canal tow path. The resulting children's work was edited as a digital collage that was made as an informative banner, flyer and website (and could still be use for mural printed as custom wallpaper or vinyl).

BAZALGETTE BRIDGES, 2021
A project lead and commissioned by Urbanwise.london

Working with the children from the Summer scheme at Center Point, Chelsea. Visuals were needed for an informative flyer and accompnying banner, designed by Urbanwise.london about Bazalgette's work, from his bridges to the sweage and other engineering works that dotted the london landscape. Fernandez used different techniques in 4 different sessions working with the children to produce rich work from the children: gel plate monoprints, collage and communal murals. The resulting children's work was edited as a digital collage that was made as an informative banner, flyer and website (and could still be use for mural printed as custom wallpaper or vinyl).

THE 10 MOST COMMON BIRDS IN WORMWOOD SCRUBS, 2021.
An informative banner placed at the West entrance of Wormwood Scrubs. Project lead and Commissioned by Urbanwise.llondon and made in collaboration with the children from Old Oak Community Center during the Summer.
Fernandez worked with the children creating art work to be used in the banner and flyers that are also used to educate locals about the urban wildlife at their doorstep of their houses and schools. She used different techniques in 4 different sessions working with the children to produce rich work from the children: gel plate monoprints, collage and communal murals.

HOARDING CARNWARTH ROAD, Fulham. TIDEWAY. Public art commission. 2016-2024. Fernandez introduced a group of year 6 children from a local school to the block printing technique, a technique favoured by a great local hero, William Morris. Fernandez gathered life sketches and hundreds of prints and made a digital collage depicting the Thames timeline comprising the river's days as purveyor of lobster and salmon, the Great Stink, a  biological dead river to a river on the way to recovery.

For more information and images on this commission please visit TIDEWAY.LONDON

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Photo by Carlos Izsak

TROPICO CAMUFLADO. Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,Venezuela. 2013-14. Facade intervention, still standing. Made in collaboration  with show producer Manuel Sanmartin.
This was the first large scale public work by Fernandez that started as a suggestion from the Museum Director, It became a gift to a community that immediately took ownership of the work, teaching Fernandez a very important lesson about the positive impact of public art in the lives of those that live around it.
Four drawings from Renata's coveted ATC series were the subject of Renata’s largest public art commission to date, TROPICO CAMUFLADO (2013-) in Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela (South façade). The commission came to be as part of her solo show of the same title in the above mentioned institution,  2013-14. It consists of printed self-adhesive transparent vinyl, adhered to four niches in the marble façade, each niche measuring 12 x 6 meters. 14 of these drawings from the ATC Series were the main body of work on Renata's solo show. 

Photo  credit: Jose Reinaldo Guedez IG @josereinaldoguedezfoto