“Maria captures details invisible to the human eye, creating works of art of extraordinary beauty. Her creations always seek a balance between the past and the present, between history and mythology”…
Illaria Falchetti
Art Curator
MADS Gallery Milan
“Reading Maria’s artist statement make some think that she is interested in thinking about and capturing the human condition. Her use of a slow shutter in this series (Dysmorphia) helps capture more than one aspect of the human condition in a single photograph. Many emotions are layered, sometimes even those that feel contradictory to each other now co-exist together. Her photograph contains layers of time. Be it present, past or the future. A sad and beautiful view of ‘ourselves’.”
Masa Ono
Artmagazineium Magazine
ARTIST STATEMENT
Hailing from Cyprus, much of her work explores aspects of Greek history and mythology. She is particularly interested in the relationships between the ancient and the contemporary – how the ancient cultures of the region have evolved and what insights we can gain from their study.
Although she considers herself an artist who works across a range of media and processes, she has recently been focusing on lens-based media‐and in particularly photography and video. Her recent works include a series of photographs and films that each focus upon a figure from Greek mythology. In these works, she has attempted to distill the essence of these characters through contemporary media and settings to create ambiguous images and videos that straddle the ancient and the modern worlds.
In each of the works she attempts to connect these representations, on a personal level, with situations or events from her own life‐as a kind of metaphor for her experiences‐that also link into the epic themes from Greek mythology.
EXHIBITIONS
“Tyndall”, 2024, Isolart Gallery, Italy
“Let Us Hear Her Voice”, 2024, Isolart Gallery, Italy
“Fragments”, 2024, Isolart Gallery, Italy
“Medusa - La Gorgone”, 2024, Isolart Gallery, Italy
"What is Art", 2024, Boomer Gallery, London
“2022 Scottish Nature Photography Award”, 2023, Scottish Nature Awards, Scotland
“2022 Richard Coward Scottish Portrait Award in Photography”, 2022-2023, Scottish Portrait Awards, Scotland
“Annual Members Show”, 2023, Generator Projects, Scotland
“Emergence 3”, 2022, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland
“To Be Nodal”, 2022, Nodal Collective, Botanical Gardens of Dundee, Scotland
“NFT - New Freedom Think” International Art Exhibition, 2022, M.A.D.S Art Gallery, Italy and Spain
“Chronos”, 2022, Echo’s Studio, Brazil
“New Era XII” - Virtual Exhibition, 2022, Art Number 23, Greece
“Annual Members Show”, 2022, Generator Projects, Scotland
“I want to quit smoking so I can love you longer”, 2022, Original Copy Collective, Scotland
“New Era IV” - Virtual Exhibition, 2022, Art Number 23, Greece
“Clash” - Virtual Exhibition, 2022, Holy Art, London
“Athens Open Art, 2022, Art Number 23, Greece
“Annual Members Show”, 2021, Generator Projects, Scotland
AWARDS
“Miglior Portfolio”, Premio Castelfiorentino Per Le Arti
“Medusa, La Gorgone”, 2024, Livorno Award
“Finalist Award” for artwork displaying creativity and uniqueness, selected in the 4th International competition for the covers of Art IDEAL Book’s fourth volume, Circle Arts Platform
“Student Scottish Nature Photography Award 2022”
“Artistic Excellence Award” for artwork displaying originality, uniqueness, and remarkable aesthetic, competing in all visual arts categories for publication in Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine, Winter 2022 Issue by Circle Foundation for the Arts
“Slow Photography” Open Call by Artrepreneur 2022
Nominated for “Young Photographer Award of 2022” by the Scottish Portrait Awards
FEATURES
“Microcosmo”, Book, 2024, Palazzo Strozzi
Digital Camera World, April 2023 - https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/stunning-image-of-spider-scoops-scottish-nature-photography-awards-2022
E Photo Zine, April 2023 - https://www.ephotozine.com/article/winners-of-the-scottish-nature-photography-awards-announced-36446
BBC, March 2023 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g55q0126go
Amateur Photographer Magazine, March 2023 - https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo-news/garden-spider-shot-wins-major-photo-contest/
PEPPER Magazine, September issue 2022
British Vogue Magazine, July issue 2022
Artist Talk Magazine, Issue 19, April 2022, page 102 - Artist Talk Magazine Issue 19
Artists Responding To…Contemporary art, culture and activism Magazine, Issue 2, April 2022, pages 19-20
Artmagazineium Magazine, Issue 12, March 2022, pages 23-25 - Artmagazineium
TALKS
Microcosmo, Book Launch, Artist Talk, 2024
2023 Dissertation Conference, Book Launch and Exhibition Opening
Scottish Portrait Awards , Artist Talk, 2022
