I was born in Cyprus and I have studied
Architecture, graduating in 1995 with a thesis
entitled “Myth-historical topography”, a
land-art project, being my first step towards a
new discipline, the one of Art.
In the following three years I worked in the
office of the stage designer Apostolos Vettas
producing mainly stage-design projects and
design of cultural events for the organization
“Thessaloniki, cultural capital of Europe 1997”.
In 1999 I was awarded with the scholarship in
sculpture from the National Institute of
Scholarships of Greece and continued my studies
in sculpture in K.I.A.D in Canterbury, England.
I received a Master’s degree in Fine Art in 2000
and since then I ‘ve been working as a sculptor.
My Artwork is dealing with matters of form and
space, which means that it includes
Installations, Land- art projects, Design of
monuments and Drawing.
Especially the Drawing process is the most
important axes of my work as a tool of
understanding reality, expressing emotions and
ideas, as well as a preliminary stage for
sculpture projects.
I am concerned on the human figure, as the basis
of sculpture and how it is placed in space. My
work has a morphology that reflects my relation
with the history of art from the ancient to the
contemporary. The element of local history in
relation with the antiquity and the
Mediterranean civilisations, especially the
Greco-Roman and Egyptian, is particularly
important to the development of my artistic
style.
In addition, the influence of the sculpture work
of Rodin, Degas, Giacometti and the Greek
sculptor G.Halepas is fundamental for the
development of my work ;also the Arte-Povera
movement with the use of fragile materials to
express contemporary concepts related with the
ephemeral and the fragmental.
Education:
– MA in Fine Arts from the Kent Institute of Art
and Design in 2000
– Awarded from the National Institute of
Scholarships of Greece with the Scholarship for
a Master’s Degree in Sculpture in 1999
– Graduated from the Architectural school of
Thessaloniki 1995
Source: Artist's website