Vasco was born in Lagos but moved to Lisbon 20 years ago to study architecture; in the meantime worked in interior design, worked as a producer and created scenarios for cinema and television. He is fascinated by haberdasheries, hardware and DIY stores. One of his most distant memories are, as a child, spending hours watching his grandfather Águas fusing lead sheets and turning them into sinkers which he used later for fishing. Or to be fascinated by the drawings that grandmother Cecília made to later transform into incredible embroidery. Like these ones, there are other memories and stories of this paternal grandfather and this maternal grandmother, whose abilities soon made him awaken to the most diverse crafts and to the need to keep them alive.
Since 2002, he has developed several projects related to graphic design, either creating the corporate image for small businesses or in the creation of graphic material for theater shows and scene photography. In collaboration with the conservation and restoration atelier Portal de S. Domingos and the atelier Artéria - Arquitectura e Reabilitação Urbana, he created some pieces of furniture, namely part of the furniture for the Ermida (church) de S. Sebastião, in Almada. Since 2018, he has developed some installations projects and designed exhibition structures for Banema Studio’s concept store in Porto.
In 2016 he created his textile art project with André Matos, having since then developed medium and large-scale tapestries, in which Vasco merges the techniques of macrame and manual weaving, essentially for private collections and some public spaces such as hotels and restaurants. In addition to a large number of anonymous artists and artisans that he follows and admires, he highlights the artists Sheila Hicks, Anni Albers, Ann Hamilton and Beatriz González as main inspirations.