Olympia Letsiou

Olympia Letsiou

Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece

About Olympia Letsiou

I started sculpting in 2006 in an attempt to communicate stimuli from the world around us. Images, photos, scenes, impressions, music everything seems to be ‘conspiring’ to contribute to this effort, trying to find a way out. With sculpture I try to express people’s fears, anxieties, obsessions, expectations, joys, experiences and interactions with other people, their happiness and their misfortunes. In these years I have felt that sculpting can flirt, attract, lure, fascinate, seduce, defuse, take control over you- it enables you to take off, hover and soar and dream and introspect and land , come to a touch down. There is a sort of direct communication with clay, an interaction -being guided at times and leading at others – creating feels like a journey, a tour, with its itinerary and destination being vague, fuzzy and simultaneously clear, specified Being given the chance to express feelings, concerns, thoughts and senses, to convey ideas , different notions and new worlds by means of sculpture is like a window to revelations, new paths opening before your eyes. You and your work become fellow travellers in search of…..

Education:

Born in Grevena, grew up in Veria currently living and working in Thessaloniki.

I have attended classes and workshops on pottery, ceramics, and sculpture and attended seminars on Art History at the Vafopouleio Cultural Center and a course titled Arts -Literature- Architecture in Contemporary Greece (1840 - 1940) at the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art.

Since November 2012 I have been a member of the Northern Greece Visual Artists Association (SKETVE) Since November 2012

Events:

In May 2011 I was awarded the first prize in the field of sculpture in the first pan-Hellenic art contest of the Northern Greece Visual Artists Association ( SKETVE) (Parallel roads).

Exhibitions:

2006 Municipal Centre, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece
2007 ‘World Made of Earth’ Municipal Centre Alatza Imaret, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008 Municipal Centre Neo Rysio, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012 January Honorary Exhibition Of the Winners of the First Panhellenic Contest Of Contemporary Art , Municipal Centre ‘Casa Bianca’, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013 November, Annual Exhibition celebrating 30 years of Northern Greece Visual Artists Association (SKETBE) Thessaloniki, Greece
2014 ‘Scent Of A Woman’ Italian Cultural Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 January, Annual Exhibition of Northern Greece Visual Artists Association (SKETBE) Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 May ‘Lost Motherlands of Greece’ Papageorgiou Hospital , Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 July-August ‘Water and Antiquities’ 46th Olympus Festival, Dion, Katerini Greece
2017 September, ‘Lost Motherlands of Greece’ International Fair of Thesaloniki, Velidio Cultural Centre