In Bound
Lumiere Gallery | March 2024 | Limassol
Lumiere Gallery, Limassol, 2024
In Bound explores the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability in women's lived experiences. Through the interplay of organic geometric forms, restrained colour palettes, and structured compositions, the series reflects the emotional complexity of navigating multiple roles and responsibilities. Precision and fluidity coexist throughout the works, echoing the resilience, adaptability, and quiet strength required to maintain equilibrium in a life shaped by constant movement. Rather than offering fixed narratives, these paintings invite reflection on connection, identity, and the layered nature of femininity.
In Bound
Lumiere Gallery | March 2023| Limassol
In Bound explores the delicate balance between strength and vulnerability in women's lived experiences. Through the interplay of organic geometric forms, restrained colour palettes, and structured compositions, the series reflects the emotional complexity of navigating multiple roles and responsibilities.
Precision and fluidity coexist throughout the works, echoing the resilience, adaptability, and quiet strength required to maintain equilibrium in a life shaped by constant movement. Rather than offering fixed narratives, these paintings invite reflection on connection, identity, and the layered nature of femininity.
Bread, Dolie, Stitch
Gallery Kypriaki Gonia | April 2021| Larnaca
Bread. Doily. Stitch. emerged during a period of enforced isolation, when familiar structures of everyday life were abruptly interrupted and the domestic sphere became both studio and subject. Created during the COVID-19 lockdowns, the exhibition reflects on how culture persists, adapts, and quietly survives within ordinary rituals, household objects, and inherited traditions.
At the centre of the works is the recurring image of the doily—a modest domestic object chosen not simply for its decorative function, but for its symbolic weight. Traditionally hand-stitched and passed through generations, lace-making carries a rich cultural history and reflects forms of knowledge, labour, and care embedded within everyday life. Within these paintings and mixed-media works, the doily becomes a visual marker of cultural memory: fragile yet enduring, familiar yet continually reinterpreted.
The exhibition questions how value is created and measured. What determines the significance of an object, a tradition, or a gesture? Is value found in rarity, economic worth, function, craftsmanship, cultural heritage, or the emotional connections formed through experience? By bringing overlooked domestic materials into the artistic space, the works challenge conventional ideas of importance and invite a reconsideration of the everyday as a site of meaning.
The restrictions of lockdown also transformed the making process itself. With conventional art materials often inaccessible, supermarkets became unexpected sources of inspiration and material. Kitchen utensils, placemats, embroidery, stitching, bread, and other domestic objects entered the studio, dissolving the boundary between daily life and artistic practice. Necessity encouraged experimentation, allowing the language of the home to become the language of painting. These materials, often dismissed as ordinary or functional, became vessels through which questions of memory, identity, and cultural continuity could be explored.
The exhibition also considers identity as something fluid rather than fixed. Drawing upon the idea that identity is continuously shaped through culture, experience, and our relationship with others, these works explore the shifting dialogue between intuition, memory, domesticity, and the “Other.” Rather than presenting identity as singular or stable, the paintings embrace its layered, evolving nature, where personal and collective histories coexist.
Throughout Bread. Doily. Stitch., domestic materials are elevated beyond their functional roles to become carriers of memory, resilience, and cultural continuity. What might ordinarily be overlooked acquires renewed significance, revealing how value is not inherent or permanent, but continuously constructed through human perception, context, and lived experience. The exhibition proposes that even the smallest gestures and most familiar objects can hold profound meaning, preserving a sense of belonging during periods of uncertainty and transformation.
The O Gallery| March 2022| Larnaca
Peace & Chaos
Peace and Chaos examines the tension between order and overload in contemporary life. The series reflects on the many roles we inhabit as we navigate increasingly demanding personal and professional realities, where the boundaries between work, home, and identity have become progressively blurred.
Drawing inspiration from the logic of Tetris, the paintings evoke the continuous act of arranging, adapting, and recalibrating. Geometric forms become visual metaphors for the daily negotiation of competing responsibilities, where each completed task is quickly replaced by another.
The work also references the Zeigarnik Effect—the psychological tendency to remember unfinished tasks more vividly than completed ones. This persistent state of mental incompletion informs the visual language of the series, where moments of structure coexist with fragmentation, suggesting that peace and chaos are not opposites but simultaneous conditions of contemporary existence.
Clara OnTour
Nomadic Art | 2019 | World Travel
Clara on Tour is an ongoing nomadic artwork that explores trust, care, authorship, and the ways meaning is shaped through human relationships. Rather than existing solely within the gallery, Clara travels across countries and continents, temporarily becoming part of people's everyday lives.
Clara began as a self-portrait—an autobiographical wire figure that gradually evolved into something beyond representation. She became a physical extension of my own presence: a companion, a witness, and a vessel through which I could explore identity beyond the boundaries of my own experience. The portrait became more than an image of the artist; it became an independent being capable of forming relationships with others.
Replicas of Clara were entrusted to individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Most recipients come from outside the art world—including a clinical psychologist, interior designer, physician, and special education teacher—chosen not for their artistic expertise but for the trust placed in them to care for Clara. Their professions and personal experiences inevitably shape the ways they encounter and interpret her.
Each participant is invited to incorporate Clara into their daily routine in whatever way feels natural. These encounters are documented through photographs and videos before being returned to the project, creating an expanding archive of lived experiences. Every new interaction contributes another layer to Clara's identity, allowing the work to evolve through collective participation rather than remaining fixed by its maker.
The project questions where an artwork truly exists. Does it reside in the object itself, in the artist's intention, or in the relationships it generates? By moving through private homes instead of institutional spaces, Clara becomes a catalyst for conversation, companionship, and reflection. She quietly connects people who may never meet, creating an invisible network linked only through their shared experience of caring for the same figure.
The decision to entrust Clara almost exclusively to women emerged organically rather than through predetermined selection. As an autobiographical female figure, her journey inevitably touches upon questions of femininity, care, and shared experience, weaving subtle connections across cultures and continents.
Clara on Tour continues to evolve with every journey, suggesting that an artwork need not remain static or anchored to a single place. Instead, it can travel, gather memories, foster relationships, and accumulate meaning through the lives it briefly inhabits.
PowerPlays
Intervention | 2020 | Larnaca Municipal Theatre
Power Plays explores the subtle dynamics of control, influence, and agency that exist within human relationships and creative processes. Emerging from my ongoing investigation into identity and the multiple roles we navigate in everyday life, the exhibition examines the invisible forces that shape our interactions—those that are felt rather than seen, yet deeply influence how we understand ourselves and others.
The exhibition developed from the project Clara on Tour, an experimental artwork in which a series of wire figures were sent to individuals across different countries and invited into their everyday lives. Through this process, questions surrounding authorship, trust, participation, and control began to emerge. While the project appeared to invite freedom and personal interpretation, I became increasingly aware of the subtle influence of the artist's position: the creator who initiates, directs, and frames the experience.
These reflections led to an exploration of puppetry as a metaphor for the invisible relationships between control and autonomy. The wire figure became both subject and symbol—a representation of the tensions between being guided and guiding, being shaped and shaping. Through the use of woven wire mesh, thread, and painting, the works investigate the delicate networks that connect individuals while simultaneously revealing the structures that hold them in place.
The dialogue between traditional and unconventional materials became central to the exhibition. Paint and canvas, familiar and intuitive elements within my practice, were brought into conversation with wire mesh—a material that suggests fragility, constraint, and adaptability. Together, they create a visual language that reflects the complexity of identity: constructed, negotiated, and constantly shifting.
Power Plays also questions how value and success are measured within artistic practice. While aspects of making can be observed through technique, intention, and outcome, the most significant exchanges often exist beyond measurement. The influence an artwork has on others, the conversations it generates, and the connections it forms cannot always be quantified, yet they remain essential to its meaning.
Through painting, sculpture, and installation, Power Plays invites reflection on the unseen negotiations that shape our lives—the balance between control and surrender, independence and connection, and the forces that define who we become.
