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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION/ EXAMPLES OF PAST WORK
Of Greek origin, studied fine arts (painting) in England (De Montfort University, 1987), followed by a postgraduate course in Theatre Design with a British Council scholarship (Nottingham Trent University, 1993). As a theatre designer she has designed sets and costumes for 24 plays and dance productions in England and Greece, including plays by Beckett, Weiss, Pinter, Bond, Lorca, Sophocles and Euripides, and has participated in improvisational workshops in collaboration with Growtowski actors.
Apart from designing, she also constructed many of the costumes which were used in some performances, viewing and developing them as sculptural body-masks designed and constructed for performance.
Her painting went through various phases, each phase exploring specific themes. In the one person shows the paintings were often exhibited in an installation-type way, whenever this was feasible, thus creating spaces through which the viewer could walk. The human body and its relationship to the surrounding space has been a main theme in her work. Whether the viewer was invited to walk around and among the paintings exhibited in space, or whether, in more recent work, the viewer is invited to look at a painting of a figure set in a specific pictorial space, the concern is similar.
She stopped working professionally in the theatre after 2005, at which time she turned to interior design and the supervision of the construction of buildings in collaboration with architects, alongside the continuous development of her painting. At present she divides her life between England (Cambridge) and Greece, where her art studio on the island of Patmos is open to the public.