04.08.07
My first solo exhibition was at the Brunswick Street Gallery and was all about my love for Parisian facades. The show consisted of fluid acrylic paintings on canvas and paper and also included my working and travel journals. I (offset) printed postcards made from my original works that were also available for sale (and sold out). A second show followed at The Convent Daylesford in 2007 with the medium transforming from acrylics to oil and prints of carousels and...
27.10.06
My second exhibition was at the Brunswick Street Gallery (Bsg). Works were all ink and charcoal, on canvas and paper, various sizes. I also included my working drawings and life drawing journals. The show was a great success with most works sold and quite a few commissions requested afterwards. Download the invite. Sales/commissions: Theo Mantalvanos 0418 514 335 soula@soula.com.au
01.04.05
Arteri is a Cypriot/Turkish arts magazine. I responded to a call for artists of Cypriot origin who were living ‘abroad’ and had feedback about their art and life. This is the article that was published in the magazine. Soula is a Melbourne born Cypriot whose parents are from Alethriko and Maroni. A practising graphic designer and fine artist she lives and works from the ‘Victorian Distillery’, Collingwood’s old converted brewery, in the heart of bohemian Melbourne. The neighbourhood thrives...
17.06.04
Oil on canvas. 60″ x 70″. 2004 Damian Crock asked me to paint ‘his girls’ and had the maddest idea (as usual). He wanted his family to be portrayed under water!! I worked from many of Damian’s family stories and a brief poolside meeting where I took photographs of the girls, their bathers, jewellery and listened to their exciting stories. This gave me insights on their characters and how the Crock family hierarchy functioned. The darling Crock family: Damian,...
01.03.04
This was such an exciting Origin of Image project. Art and design can take you to such great places and this particular experience would have to be one of the outstanding life destinations… I guess the event preset the mood. I had a brilliant team working with me, one of whom was Theo… yes again. Each of these fabric canvases (yes, fabric) was approximately four mt wide. The idea, thanks to darling Damian Crock (Crock Productions), was to paint from...
