Elpida Georgiou

Born London
BA HONS St. Martins 1983-86
MA Royal Academy 1986-90

2006/7- Ten/twelve large scale paintings based on complex characters in Shakespeare's plays..
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SHAKESPEARE DREAMS

An Exhibition of Paintings by Elpida Georgiou

sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust and the Department of English, School of Humanities, and Insitute of Psychiatry, Kings College London


The genesis of this exhibition was a painting I made many years ago entitled Freud Acting Hamlet. I have always been interested in Freuds analyses of Shakespeares characters, not least for his misinterpretations, of Hamlet in particular. Hamlet uses drama to accuse his uncle of the murder of his father and delivers a speech on acting to the players (who surely have rather more dramatic experience than he does). Hamlet stresses that they must not overact. I saw Freud as himself an actor, on a world stage, an actor not averse to posturing, and so, in my painting, I cast Freud as Hamlet more from intuition than analysis, but thats the way I work.

Busy with other projects, and life in general, I didnt follow this up in any systematic way until I was introduced to Gordon McMul...

St Martin's School of Art, 1983-1986Royal Academy, 1987-1990
2008-Artist in residence Kings collegeInstitute of Psychiatry, Kings College London C.V available at realartfirst.com,