WHERE THE TREE MEETS THE CROSS opens Tuesday 30 July, 4-6pm @cryptgallery.space in my home City of Norwich.
On view from Tuesday 30 July - Saturday 3 August, 10am - 4pm. All welcome!
So thrilled to be collaborating with Iuliana Gavril, a super inspiring friend who I adore very much. She is an anthro-architectural historian, visual artist, Senior Lecturer in Architecture @norwichuniarts and known for her research on the Byzantine monument of Hagia Sophia.
~ EXHIBITION OVERVIEW ~
Where the Tree Meets the Cross brings the work of two artists, Androulla Michael and Iuliana Gavril together in their shared reverence for those most unnoticed - unseen - instances of everyday life. Yet, their capturing in drawing and photography exposes profound, enduring symbols: the cross and the tree.
Androulla Michael’s crosses pass into and out of form in the shadows of a wall or tree, in the cracks of pavements, in the overlaying of clouds on the infinite blue, in the caress of window mullion and muntin by draperies, in the markings of roads and sky, in the nudge of ordinary objects given to banal surfaces.
Once noted, in the mastery of timing, the crosses celebrate light as form-giving, shadow as surreptitious texture and space as life-affirming. Part of knowing the beauty of the world, part of re-finding the salvific and affirmative self in a tumultuous time-space, Androulla Michael’s evanescent crosses will inevitably and ultimately point to the biblical trees: the tree of life, the tree of knowledge, and the tree as the Christian imagery for the cross.
In this specific reference, the ephemeral sighting of crosses receives their immutability. Iuliana Gavril’s drawing of trees (Arborium Series) gives Androulla Michael’s Cross Series sufficient but not necessarily contextual materiality, anchoring the simple intersecting of lines, often perpendicularly, in the immutable beauty of the natural world. The trees, at once weightless and resplendent, annul the disruptive feature of crosses, repositing the beauty of the world. Only when cross-sighting is viewed in proximity of trees, its life-affirming and altogether humbling attribute is truly magnified.
There Is An Island
Honoured to be invited to participate in There Is An Island, a group exhibition presented at the Cyprus High Commision celebrating Cypriot creativity in the heart of London, UK.
Thrilled to have two of my artworks selected by Eliza Gluckman (Director Government Art Collection) for this years ING Discerning Eye exhibition amongst amazing talent, held at the Mall Galleries. Exhibition is open until 26 November 2023. Free entry, everyone is welcome!
The artworks can be viewed and purchased via the Discerning Eye exhibition online gallery here.
Blessed and so grateful to have my work Mum's Bedroom, 17th November at 09:24, from the series CROSS, selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023. The show opens on 13th June to 20th August. Everyone welcome!
Thank you to David Remfry and to the wonderful selection and hanging committee Eileen Cooper, Peter Barber, Bill Jacklin, Katherine Jones, Tim Shaw and Clarewoods.
Mum's Bedroom, 17th November at 09:24, 2022. Photographic pigment print on hahnemuhle photo rag paper. H15cm x W18cm.
Thrilled to have co-curated with Minnie Weisz HOME, a multimedia exhibition that brought together nine international visual artists working under the creative and social-cultural theme of displacement, to compliment the tenth year anniversary of the Athens Democracy Forum, in association with The New York Times, held on 28-29 September, 2022, at the Zappeion, Athens, Greece.
The Athens Democracy Forum was attended by international business leaders, academics, policy makers and experts including: the European Commission President, Ursula Von Der Leyen; the 8th United Nations Secretary General and Chair, Ban Ki-Moon; and Her Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, amongst others.
So proud of super talented Sean Hendley for writing A Fictional Walk With Androulla Michael, a beautifully moving and poignant piece on my latest Cross series for @norwichuniarts Storehouse Magazine, Issue 21 ~ Together, Together: The Home Issue.
I’m so thrilled to have my work ‘Salvaged Memories’ selected and featured in this wonderful publication “Wonder Island” which is included in the Luciano Benetton Collection for the @imago_mundi_art Project. Thank you @vamvouklisn for making this happen and I feel so grateful to be a part of your curation!
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Click on the link below to find out more about my piece in "Wonder Island" publication.
http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/androulla-michael-salvaged-memory
I'm so honoured to annouce that I've recently been invited to be featured in a piece of work where established and emerging creative figures of the art world will be part of, by MS Karamat in her 'International Fear and Memory Book Project'. An article to the run up of her book project has been published in British Vogue, link is included below:
British Vogue : " The Woman Challenging Fear With Culture."
http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/challenging-fear-book-interview
I'm so excited and honoured to have my work 'Salvaged Memories' included in Luciano Benetton's art collection and which will also be exhibited in “Join the Dots/Unire le Distanze” that forms part of Benetton's Imagi Mundi project. The exhibition opens on 29 May at the stunning Salon degli Incanto in Trieste, Italy until September 2nd. All welcome. Thank you Nicolas Vamvouklis for making this happen!
Today a dream came true, and it feels phenomenal and real! Thank you to Alessia Glaviano for making this incredible article in Vogue Italia happen based on my current project, My Diary #Selfie of a Nobody (365 days) 2015. Also I'm very grateful for the wonderful text by your dear friend and philosopher Andrea Bocchiola and the support of your brilliant team at Vogue Italia Francesca Marani and Chiara Bardelli Nonino. ❤️
I'm thrilled to be the winner of the 2016 Brussels Airlines Likes Art Award at the Accessible Art Fair in New York with 'My Diary #Selfie of a Nobody, 06th January, 2015'. The winning piece is currently on show at The Loft in Brussels Airport until May 2017.
I'm delighted to be selected to show my work at the Accessible Art Fair in New York. The art fair is a unique event where 60 artists from across the globe were selected by an illustrious Jury of international Art Advisors and experts from Sotheby's, Gagosian Gallery, Christie's Collectrium and Artnet.
News
A selection of my work from the series titled My Diary #Selfie of a Nobody (365 days) was on display at Art Lab, an exhibition which ran alongside Art For Tomorrow conference, sponsored by The New York Times at the W Hotel Doha, Qatar 12 - 15 March 2016
The Art Lab exhibition also featured works from:
HRH Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark
Omar Khalifa
Pia MYrvoLD
Google Cultural Institute
Laurence Winram
Ali Hossaini
Hassan Al Thani
See photos and video highlights from The New York Times Art For Tomorrow Conference 2016
Speakers involved at The New York Times Art For Tomorrow:
