«I live for art. Art created by others, Art created by myself. It’s my oxygen tank. Without it I feel vacant, invisible, non-existent. With it I’m unstoppable.»
Description
Her work could be summed up as an amalgam of worlds. As a whole, it can be characterized as dark, being on the border between the imaginary and the surreal, bearing an incessant thirst for light and hope. For her it is an end in itself, healing, redemption, communication. She utilizes her personal experiences, influences and imagination to “water” her creations with meaning and substance. Whether black and white or coloured, they are concentrated in a patchwork of motifs, each of which carries its own story and, all together, they compose their own dreams. Through her academic background, she has developed her own sense of space on paper, based on cinematic framing and theatrical scenery, as well as on the architectural sense of space. In conclusion, through her work, she communicates her own story, her own worlds. Its lighthouse? Feeling.
Biography
She was born in Athens in 1982. She studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and then Scenography at the Laboratory of Scenography of Maria Chaniotaki. She later moved to London, where she completed her postgraduate studies at the University of the Arts London – Chelsea College of Arts, doing research on Fine Arts and Scenography in particular, and went on to obtain her PhD in Film and Theatrical Scenography.
As part of her academic studies, she has lectured on Cinema and participated in conferences, analyzing the Architecture and Scenography of Hitchcock’s films. She has attended the seminars “Cinema Costume” with Bianca Nikolareizi, “Architectural and Stage Design of an Exhibition” with Antonis Daglidis and “National Shadow-Theater” with Athos Danellis. She has participated in scenographic exhibitions in Greece (at the Neos Kosmos theater, at the ContACT art club) together with a large number of artists. In 2011, she was a volunteer Scenographer and Costume Designer in the children’s play “Tenekedoupoli” of the SOS Children’s Villages of Vari, while in 2019 she was the main Scenographer and Costume Designer of the play “Elephant” by Christos Tsavlidis, at Theater 104.
In addition to Theater and Cinema, she has been practicing Architecture for the last 17 years, as well as Illustration. Her sketches are included in Tassos Angelopoulos’s book “Playing Theater with History” and she recently illustrated the cover and back cover of Harry Economopoulos’s book, “The Passage”. She has participated in exhibitions with other artists in London, including in the LIF – London Illustration Fair, and has been a member of the group MiAL (Made in Arts London). In addition to the above, she has taken part in exhibitions online, such as that of Aesthetica magazine or that of ARTWARD, and has collaborated with a variety of great artists on Instagram.
She has been involved in artistic events from a very young age, since she had been training in ballet (with which she has given performances at the Porta Theater) and singing for years. She was a member of the ERT Children’s Choir for three years, with which she participated in many performances and events. In 1995, she played and sang in the play “Oresteia” by Xenakis, under the artistic direction of Dimitris Papaioannou, together with the State Theater of Northern Greece at the ancient theater of Epidaurus.
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