Visual artist · Nomadic practice
Stories carried
from place to place.
Drawings, paintings and spatial works formed through travel, migration, memory and the small rituals that make a place feel like home.
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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 remembered objects—carrying the dialects of mountain life into a new geography.
The project reflects on roots through migration. Familiar forms become a temporary shelter from which to encounter the unfamiliar; objects that might have remained silent begin to speak because they have travelled.
Individually made stools gather like an archipelago: separate forms sharing one floor, one temporary home.
A whisper
finding its voice.
Layered images carry houses, trees, language and fragments of recollection. Quiet marks slowly gather confidence and volume.
Memory made
by hand.
Reclaimed wood is cut, joined and marked. Each stool remains useful and familiar, yet becomes singular—a portable vessel for a place left behind.
Familiar shelter,
unfamiliar ground.
The finished installation brings domestic objects, handmade furniture and image-making into conversation—an environment shaped by departure and return.
About the artist
Movement
as a studio.
I was born and raised in a small mountain village. Travelling, migration and living as a nomadic artist have been my way of life.
The narratives I evoke in my studio practice bring cultural and experiential fragments into the present. The work moves freely between drawing, painting, installation and community projects, becoming a ritualised process of healing and a rich source of symbolism.
This portable way of working allows the practice to travel without being reduced to objects—creating space for freedom, encounter 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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