Helenya Apostolou - Artist Statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist based in North Wales, UK, making bold and colourful screen-prints, paintings and digital designs; all centred around bridging the gap between movement and stillness.

I graduated from The University of Leeds in 2021, with a First Class BA in Fine Art, and I continue to create work exploring the use of colour in manufacturing movement.

I use the ‘Samoiloff Effect’  to turn layered illustrations into short and repetitive stop-motion animated cycles, so that when exposed to red, green and blue LED lighting, my work moves and changes. I use the sense of movement to highlight motion I witness in nature and as a form of storytelling, allowing meanings to unfurl and fade in and out of clarity as my paintings and prints change.'

I studied abroad for a year in Marseille, at Ecole Superieure D’Art et De Design Marseille Mediterranee, from 2019 to 2020. Here, I was part of her first international group exhibition ‘Too Much, Un Peu’.

During the lockdown of 2020, I held my first solo show, ‘Colour: Filtered Reality’ as a socially distanced event.

Since then, I have been part of four other group exhibitions, most notably: ‘Fickle Spaces’ at the School of Fine Art History of Art and Cultural Studies, Leeds, in 2021, and ‘Queer Leeds’, at The Tetley, Leeds, in 2022.

If you’d like to find out more about my work, please visit my website: helenya apostolou

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