IRINI URANIA POLITI
Whilst the human figure was frequently present since my early days as an Art student, in the past decade it has become more prominent.
My explorations have taken me from the landscape (which I still continue to work on) to our artificially constructed environments, our interior spaces.
My paintings/drawings are of snap-shots, vignettes of daily lives. These spaces are the theatre in which we enact out of our routines. We get lost in these routines, which are socially isolated acts, and lose sense of who we really are internally. My figures are clumsy and awkward. They are vulnerable and unsure. They are oblivious of us, the viewer, but from which vantage point are we watching?
~~IRINI URANIA POLITI
www.ipoliti.co.uk
1999 Post Graduate Diploma in Secondary (Art and English) Education, RMIT Melbourne, Australia
1997 Wimbledon School of Art, England as part of BFA studies
1998 BFA (Painting/Photography), RMIT Melbourne, Australia
1994 Advanced Certificate in Art and Design, RMIT TAFE, Melbourne, Australia
1992 BA English and American Literature with Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
Aristotle University, Greece
SOLO SHOWS
2015 Theodoros Stamos Gallery, Municipal Cultural Centre, Lekfada, Greece
2011 Theodoros Stamos Gallery, Municipal Cultural Centre, Lefkada, Greece
1998 Metropolitan Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP SHOWS
2013 Euroart Studios, London, UK
2009 Municipal Cultural Centre, Lefkada, Greece
2008 Members' Exhibition, The Arts Club, Mayfair, England
2007 Members' Exhibition, The Arts Club Mayfair, England
2003 Municipal Cultural Centre, Lefkada, Greece
2002 Municipal Cultural Centre, Lefkada, Greece
1997 “Contigency “at Span Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
1998 "Citadel", St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
1998 "Citadel", Gasworks Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
1996 "Progression", RMIT Union Exhibition Space
1995 "Hysterical Fugue State", The Lounge, Melbourne, Australia
1994 “Six and Out" Brink Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1994 "Body", Steps Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Other:
2010 Co-curated and translated for the ‘Orpheas Folklore Museum of Lefkada’