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STATEMENT
I am an artist/printmaker, architect and art tutor. I have worked in many mediums over the last 20 years, ranging from painting to video installation work and in the last 4/5 years printmaking at Morley College (under Michelle Avison and Maggar Balakjian).I have also been inspired by Hambis Charalambous (renowned printer in Cyprus) and his workshop. My ongoing work and exhibitions in London and abroad have been preoccupied with boundaries (inspired by the Green Line in Cyprus) not just as separation points but, as invisible undefined spaces where worlds overlap and blur meaning i.e. Art and/or Architecture, painting and/or sculpture, abstract and/or figurative, real and/or fictional. This ‘inbetweeness’ characterises my experience and process in the work. The kaleidoscopic possibilities of Printmaking allow my psychological processes to unravel, often with surprising effects. The prints allude unconsciously to constructivist imagery and a personal narrative. Notable achievements, first site-specific installation on the Green Line -Cyprus ‘ 94 and 1st Prize at National Print Open- Cyprus, 2002.
Education/Qualifications
2005-06 PGCE (Post Compulsory) P/T. Institute of Eductaion. University of London.
2004 City & Guilds St. 2 (7407) Teacher Training (FE). Tower Hamlets College.
2003 City & Guilds St. 1 (7407) Teacher Training (FE). Tower Hamlets College.
1996 BA (Hons) Practice and Theory of Visual Art. Chelsea College of Art.
1994 MA Art in Architecture (Commendation). University of East London.
1986 Diploma (Hons) in Architecture. Thames Polytechnic. (Greenwich Univ.)
1983 BA (Hons) in Architecture. Thames Polytechnic. (Greenwich Univ.)
1987 Qualified Architect RIBA. Thames Polytechnic. (Greenwich Univ.)
Exhibitions
2006 SOBO Gallery, South London. 4 Printmakers exhibition.
2005 Morley Gallery. London. ‘Made’- Group Print exhibition.
2004 Mile End Arts Pavilion,London. Tutor for Lifelong Learning Centres exhibition.
Plataniskia, Limassol, Cyprus. Prize winner at National Open Print Exhibition.
2003 Plataniskia, Limassol, Cyprus. 2nd Prize winner at National Open Print Exhibition.
2003 MODA (Museum of Design and Architecture) Exhibition, London. Group show of outdoor sculpture- ‘Outsized’
2002 Plataniskia, Limassol, Cyprus. 1st Prize winner at National Open Print Exhibition.
2002 Kanaris st. Limassol, Cyprus. Site specific performance/installation. ‘Tavli’
2002 Morphi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus. Group show of paintings and constructions.
2000 BBC Broadcasting House- Forum, London. Reading of ‘Everything & nothing’. Celebration of 80 years of Adult Learning. The City Lit 1920-2000.
1999 The Void Space, Hackney, London, collaborative exhibition. ‘Mixed Up’-“Everything & Nothing”.
1998 198 Gallery, Herne Hill, London. ‘Works on Process’ exhibition. ‘Fishtank’ installation.
1997 198 Gallery. Herne Hill, London. ‘Converging lines’. ‘Flower seller’, ‘Taxi driver’, ‘Towers of Babble-On’. Video Installations.
1996 Institute of Light- Chelsea, London. Video Installation. ‘Boots on the Line’.
‘Converging Lines’, Public Performance: ‘The Flower Seller’& ‘Taxi driver’. London.
Iliotropion Gallery exhibition, Larnaca, Cyprus. International Green Line Project, video installation and Festival.
Phase II: Green Line Project.
Lyberty Square, Nicosia, Cyprus. Site Specific Sculpture, ‘Monument to the Missing’,
1995 Diorama Gallery. Solo Exhibition ‘Installation in Black’.
Camden Irish Centre. Greek- Cypriot and Irish artists exhibition. Video Installation. Simulation of Green Line Project.
Ron Heron Gallery. Exhibition of photographs and sculpture of
Green Line Project and Tidal Basin Sculpture
Whitechapel Art Gallery. Foyer space exhibition. Photographs of Green Line project.
1994 Phase I: Green Line Project.
Nicosia,Cyprus. Video Installation on the Green Line. “ Walking on the Green Line”
Docklands.Tidal Basin Exhibition. Site-specific public sculpture,
“Cardboard Cut-outs”
1993 Ekfrasis Gallery, Larnaca, Cyprus. Joint travelling exhibition of painting/sculpture.
1992 Symposium of Cyprus. Exhibition of painting at North London Polytechnic.
1991 Wood Green Gallery. Joint Show. Painting and sculpture.
Earlsfield Gallery. Joint Show. Painting and sculpture.
Waltham Abbey Gallery. Joint Show. Painting.
Residencies/Projects/Experience
1996/97 The Green Line Project Initiator.
Converging Lines Art Group. Research, development and Administration.
Head Technical Co-ordinator of the Green Line Festival, Cyprus.
Phase III of Green Line Project planned for future, to include a site specific installations/ sculpture on the Green Line.
1998 Artist in Residence. 198 Gallery. ‘Works on process’ workshops. Stockwell Infants School.
1997 Artist in Residence. 198 Gallery workshops. Based on themes of Converging Lines exhibition. Converging Lines is an art group consisting of painters, installation artists, film makers and performance artists.
1996 Artist in Residence/ Teacher at Forest Gate Youth Centre. Part of Univ. of East London’s Ethnicities Research Unit. Including 10 weeks of workshops/ exhibitions/ conference/ talks on Cultural themes:- Titled ‘Frontlines/Backyards’.
1995 Artist in Residence. Carpenters Estate Community Art Project.
1994 Artist in Residence. John Scur Primary school mural with children’s participation and a strong multi-cultural theme in the work.
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