about me:

Aiming to address the uncanny

Aliki is an artist whose extraordinary work encompasses jewellery, sculpture, photography, and product design. Inspired by the surreal, Aliki’s creations surprise and scandalise.

Her work is a narrative thread.

She is currently exploring the agonising and extremely intense experience of being exposed and naked to the unknown gaze. Intrigued by the violation of intimate space and the insatiable appetite of the eye, she creates work that ranges from jewellery and installations to everyday objects.

Her latest work consists of weird and wonderful jewellery that shock, alongside wearable sculptural constructions which provoke with their mysterious and occasionally monstrous manner.

The dramatic and at the same time sensational collection embraces a staring toilet, 1000 eye-pattern toilet rolls, small animal shape bathtubs and various menacing eyeballs.

Born in

1981 in Athens, Greece.

During 2001-2006 she attends studies of Sculpture under the Professor Theodoros Papagiannis and Photography under the Professor Manolis Babousis, at the ‘Athens School of Fine Arts’.

In 2003-2004 she continues studies of Sculpture under  the Professor Diego Esposito and Pascucci Lanfranco at the ‘Accademia di belle arti di Brera’ in Milan.

During 2007-2009 she frequents the MA course of Goldsmithing Silversmithing Metalwork and Jewellery under the Professors Hans Stofer and Michael Rowe at the ‘Royal College of Art’ in London.

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Scholarships-Awards

2008 ‘Michelis’ institution Scholarship for post graduate studies.

2009 ‘House of Fraser’ Award.

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Group Exhibitions

• January 2004: Accademia di belle arti di Brera Milan, Italy.
• June 2004: Eco festival Thisio, Greece
• June 2004: Chatzikiriakio child care institution Piraeus, Greece
• September 2005: International month of photography Athens, Greece.
• June2006: Cultural center of Tavros, Greece.
• April 2008: ‘Siamo qui’ Florence, Italy.
• October 2008: ‘Metal Rocks’ installation at the Victoria & Albert museum London, UK.
• November 2008: ‘human touch’ Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• January 2009: ‘Unconfined’ Cultural centre Melina Athens, Greece.
• June 2009: RCA Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
• July 2009: Electrum gallery, London, UK
• July 2009: ‘We Object’, Ada gallery, London, UK
• July 2009: window display, Kokontozai, London, UK
• August 2009: Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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Work experience

• Since 2005 she has been working as a freelancer, collaborating with various shops in Greece.
• In 2007 she worked as a member of Nikos Alexiou creative team, the artist that represented Greece at the Venice Biennale 2007.
• In 2008 she worked as the main designer of the Accessorize ‘recycle project’.
• Since 2009 she has been collaborating with ARTAM gallery in Tokyo.

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Languages:

- Greek (native), English, French, Italian

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Contact me:

email: aliki.stroumpouli@network.rca.ac.uk

tel: 0030 6948537526 – 0044 (0) 7864016397

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