Visual artist · Nomadic practice
Travel from place to place,
have no borders
Drawings, paintings, and installations form an entity obtained through nomadic travel and migration, where memory becomes a tool and artistic rituals become the way of shaping a methodology that helps with integration into a new place.
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“My practice is a way of making cultural and experiential fragments intelligible—an interdisciplinary process of healing, symbolism and meaning-making.”
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A deliberately small selection across three decades of studio practice and movement.
Featured project · MFA thesis · 2015
Toronto, CanadaTravelling
Talismans
A constellation of wooden stools, drawings, mixed-media paintings and talismanic old objects—carrying the lost dialects of mountain life into a new geography.
The project reflects on roots through migration. Familiar forms become a temporary shelter when encountering the unfamiliar; objects that obtained voice because they migrated otherwise would have remained silent.
Individually made stools gather like an archipelago: separate forms sharing one floor, one temporary home.
Some whispers
can find their voices
Houses & trees, pathways & hills, tools of the fields & open air with clouds, languages & fragments of memories. Silent marks slowly gather confidence and volume.
Memory made
by hand
Reclaimed wood transformed to stools through an old technique. Each stool remains useful and familiar, yet becomes singular—a memory vessel for a place left behind.
Familiar shelters
unfamiliar ground
The final installation brings domestic objects, handmade stools and image-making into conversation—an environment where the discussion is of departure and return.
About the artist
Movement
as a studio
The narratives I evoke in my studio practice are efforts to employ cultural and experiential fragments intelligible to myself and relevant to my current reality. An effective artistic nomad communicates cultural information and knowledge with other artists, in order to collectively give shape to the shapeless, making legible the movement between drawing, painting, installation and community projects; in a way that becomes a ritualised process of healing and a rich source of symbolism. In that way the art work is not reduced to objects but allows claiming part of our “traditions” by rendering them essential sites of reflection; promoting freedom of encounters and integration.
MFA, OCAD University, Toronto
MA Visual Arts, UEL, London
BA Fine Arts, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Greece · Canada · France · Italy
Egypt · Scotland · Spain · Portugal
Curriculum vitae
Selected biography
01 Education
2013–2015 MFA, Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. Thesis: Travelling Talismans—wooden sculptures, drawings and mixed-media collage paintings.
2001–2002 MA in Visual Arts, University of East London, UK. Final project: Circus, a 100 m² installation using wood, fabric, metal, ropes and abstract painting.
1990–1995 BA, School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
1988–1989 “Praxis” Drawing Tutorial School, Thessaloniki.
02 Practice & teaching
Professional landscape painter since 1995 and interior designer / decorator since 1992, with a travelling practice across Europe, Canada, Egypt and Turkey.
Teaching Assistant at OCAD University, Toronto (2013–2015); drawing instructor for adults in Athens (2004); primary-school art instructor in Crete (2003).
Previous work includes set and costume design in Athens and Thessaloniki, gallery assistance at Ileana Tounta Gallery, and studio assistance to sculptors Thodoros and George Tsaras.
03 Selected solo exhibitions
2022 Nomadic, Bistrot Jutard, Lyon; Greek and French Dialogues, Albi; Gazes of Birds, Albi, France.
2021 Orange & Green Stories, Historic Boarding School / Gymnasium of Tsotyli, Greece.
2018 Bridge, Vrysaki Cultural Centre, Athens; Walking Out of the Woods, Damaskinia.
2015 Travelling Talismans, OCAD Graduate Gallery, Toronto.
2013 The First Ghosts, Damaskinia, Greece.
2009 Emigration: Discourses of Space, Municipal Gallery, Kozani.
2008 A Breath from the Desert—Mediterranean Waves, Hellenic Cultural Centre, Alexandria; Remains of a Year, Florence.
2002 Circus, University of East London.
04 Group exhibitions
2018 Biennale of Western Balkans, Tradition Anew, Ioannina.
2017 Fragments of Dialogue, Vrysaki Cultural Centre, Athens.
2016 Greeks for Greece, Figure One Gallery, Champaign, USA.
2014 Done Being Wrong, Brockton Gallery, Toronto.
2011 Scotiabank Contact Greek Photo Week, Toronto; Anamnesis, Gallery 1313, Toronto.
2003 Circus, Vile Roan Art Group, Fritz Gallery, London.
05 Residencies, lectures & memberships
Artist residencies and extended working periods include Artscape Toronto Island, Alexandria as a guest of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation, Florence, Edinburgh, Spain, Portugal, Hydra, Mykonos and London.
Lectures include Greek art history for York University students in Athens (2016), four Greek artists of the 20th century in Toronto (2014), and Greek painting in the 20th century for the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario (2012).
Member of the Greek Chamber of Arts with UNESCO accreditation since 1996 and the Graduate Association of the Fine Arts School since 1998. Founding member of the Vile Roan International Art Group, London.
Languages: Greek, English, Spanish, Italian and Serbo-Croatian.
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