Ana Curbelo
Ana Curbelo (known as untepid) is an artist and illustrator.
The current political situation, climate change, the patriarchy and mental health are some of the issues her characters confront. They are generally unimpressed.
Mostly alone and naked, their bodies and their thoughts are depicted with equal explicitness. Their openness and vulnerability endows them with a humorous and tender dignity, and, though disenchanted, their attitude is not detached or indifferent.
Ana is currently based in London.
Selected press:
Digital Arts Online - Amazing illustrators on the body-positive art breaking female taboos
Creative Boom - The creative team railing against the tampon tax by hiding sanitary products in a beautifully illustrated book
The Guardian - No luxury: book containing tampons is runaway hit
El País - Un libro lleno de tampones para pagar un IVA reducido
Vogue - Why This Protest Tampon Book Is Flying Off The Shelves
Stylist Magazine - A book with 15 free tampons inside it has sold out for this political reason
The Irish Times - Book containing tampons becomes a bestseller
Melville House - Packaging tampons as books: the subversive new way to avoid a sexist tax
Design Calendar - April Issue 2019