Artists
At Plastico, artists find a curious and open-minded audience who is willing to know and understand who they are, discover their creative process for themselves, and ultimately, buy an original piece of art to treasure forever.
Antonio Aricò
Italy
Antonio Aricò was born in 1983 in Reggio Calabria, a beautiful town in southern Italy that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. After closely studied the inspirational work of his grandfather, the master carpenter Saverio Zaminga, he went on to study a wide range of design disciplines all over the world.
After working with several design studios in Milan, Aricò opened his very own studio in 2011.
Known for the enthusiasm, determination and personal creative process, Aricò collaborates frequently with Italian craftspeople to create unique objects, as well as major Italian brands that include Barilla, Seletti, Bialetti, Alessi, Bitossi, EditaMateria, Altreforme, Noberasco and Texturae.
Aricò’s history and works have been presented at the Triennale in Milan, the Museum of Holon in Tel Aviv, the NGV in Melbourne, the headquarters of the Italian ambassador in Copenhagen, and in Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
Antigone Kourakou
Greece
Antigone lives and works in Athens as an art conservator-restorer.
Her relationship with photography starts in 1998, while still studying art conservation. This experience motivates her to engage further in the medium, both theoretical and technical and reinforces her love of it.
She begins systematic work on photography in 2010, by which time it serves as a means of seeking and expressing a personal aesthetic sense.
Her work has been exhibited in Greece and abroad and published in international magazines, catalogues, and online publications.
Samuele Livornese
Italy
Samuele Livornese was born in Messina, Italy. He has a diploma in Russian and English language and culture. Additionally, he has a certificate of Film Directing (course by Leonid Alekseychuk, Palermo, Italy) as well as a Diploma of Fiction Cinema Director (Academy Michalkov, Moscow, Russia).
He’s active as writer, filmaker, translator and photographer.
Craftmanship is a constant feature of his works, especially in photography. Photographic films, acids, pliers, red light, eyes, time and patience have been the ingredients of his exhibitions.
Samuele is in love with Greece, and he currently lives on Syros.
David Hawkins
United Kingdom
David Hawkins was born in Gloucester and educated at Randwick Village School and Marling School, Stroud, where he was lucky enough to be taught by an exceptional artist, Kenneth Lauder.
He took a BA(Hons) degree in Politics at Liverpool University.
Later in life, he studied at City & Guilds of London Art School and Goldsmiths College where he was awarded a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art.
He now lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Syros, Greece.
His working practise is imbued with spirituality and the light and colour of the Greek island that he now calls home.
Semilu
France
Semilu is an underground, pop, self-taught, social, cigarette-addicted French artist who lives in Rouen, Normandy.
Her work depicts her lifestyle made of artistic events like Apéros* that gather friendly locals that have in common a true passion for cigarettes and red wine. The main subjects in her drawings are herself, her boyfriend Gwen, her dog Goran and close friends she draws portraits of like they are her family. She uses different techniques and media, including Posca pens on paper, Staedtler pens, watercolours or acrylic paint. We can find her work in many places in France as she spreads it generously and exhibits mainly through artistic gatherings.
She also works on-demand as a designer of posters, bags and record sleeves.
Anna Maria Papadimitriou
Greece
Born in 1972 and raised in Athens Greece. Initially trained in Interior Architecture, she turned to the Athens School of Fine Arts following her longing for limitless expression. She studied Painting under the professors Yannis Valavanidis and Michalis Manousakis (2000-2005).
She presented her first solo exhibition in Athens (Astrolavos Gallery, 2010). Since then, her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. In 2014 she won an international competition curated by CultureInside Gallery in Luxembourg. Since 2017 she has participated in the annual international “Art Athina” represented by Astrolavos Gallery. Her paintings utilise a series of contrasts: elements real and utopian, movement and calm, things timeless and instantaneous.
She often refers to her work as “unfamiliar internal landscapes” claiming that the Unfamiliar is a more open space, broader, stretching its boundaries out in all directions for a single instant gazing at a truth. The non-visible and the clues to the Unseen were obviously issues that existed unconsciously as she was connecting to a painting process that resembled the experience of successive dives into the depths of the Invisible. Her work can be found in several private collections in all continents of our blue planet.
Spiros Baras
Greece
Spiros Baras is an artist and owner of Plastico. He was born and raised in Athens.
He started to paint soon after obtaining his diploma in Graphic Arts, given his increasing fascination with watercolours.
He first exhibited in 2010 among established artists, in "35 artists exhibit their works on Global Poverty" at Technopolis in Athens.
Isabelle Derigo
Switzerland
Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Derigo defines herself as a multi-medium artist. Her work is based mainly on Performance Art, which incorporates her strong yoga background.
She has travelled extensively in the US, Asia and Australia, exploring both the ‘’ancient soul’’ and experimental art to develop her genre. Isabelle’s investigations into the creative process have also led her to work with numerous mediums such as painting, photography, sculpting, etc.
James Chadderton
United Kingdom
James Chadderton is a mixed media artist based in Manchester, UK. His work, consisting mostly of post-apocalyptic landscapes, collapses the boundaries between traditional and composite drawing. James’ drawing style is characterised by a tendency towards magic realism or moments of fantasy within realistic portrayals.
Avid fan of post-apocalyptic films, science fiction, and video games, James has collaborated with EA at the Battlefield franchise as well as music legend Peter Hook at EP 1102/2011, and the BBC. His work has been exhibited in Clifford Whitworth Library (Salford), Manchester Art Fair, Generation Gallery (nationwide), Incognito Gallery (Manchester), dot-art Gallery (Liverpool), and Jeffery-West (Manchester).
In 2019, James won the People’s Choice Award with Liver Building, the first artwork of his post-apocalyptic Liverpool series commissioned for the Liverpool, 2028 exhibition (dot-art Gallery and Bido Lito).
Elsa Charalambous
Greece
Elsa Charalambous has studied painting in the workshop of T. Patraskidis and mosaic in the workshop of G. Valavanidis, from 1993 to 1998, at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
From 1999 to 2017 she collaborated with adult educational institutions and taught courses on digital design, arts, culture, art history, drawing, painting, conservation of works of Art.
She taught and exhibited in Greece and abroad. Her works are in the collection of the School of Fine Arts in Athens, the Cyclades Gallery and the Municipal Gallery in Syros, the Kyveli Institute in Syros, the Ersi Gallery and the Arttower in Athens, the Galerie Groendal in the Netherlands, in public buildings in Rotterdam, at the National Stockport Gallery in England, at Centro d’ Arte de Alcobendas in Madrid, at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing in China.
Janet Flynn
United Kingdom
Janet set up Flynn Fine Art soon after finishing her creative training. FFA worked with Theatre and Arts organisations as well as Universities, Local Authorities, Prisons and Hospitals. Her role within these organisations was to facilitate the delivery of arts-related projects.
The company ran successfully for nearly thirty years providing support for private individuals in the creation of exhibitions as well as local arts groups. During her career, Janet continued her practice as an artist, illustrator, ceramics and printmaking.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Janet is a respected and well-known figure in the arts community of Northern England.
In 2019 she moved with her husband to Syros in Greece to concentrate on her painting.
Theodore Merkos
Greece
Theodore Merkos is a young, self-taught artist. He was born in Athens and raised in Agrinio.
He studies design in Syros and, at the same time, he engages in painting. Since he was a child, he loved art.
He was particularly drawn towards painting. So it came naturally to him to use this form of expression to communicate his feelings and thoughts.
Chrysostomos Galathris
Greece
Chrysostomos Galathris was born in Samos and today lives and works in Athens.
He has studied photography at the Athens Focus School of Arts and the CEPV, Arts Vevey School in Switzerland. His work has been displayed and appreciated in several exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Peter Macken
Belgium
Peter Macken was born in Flanders, Belgium.
After a successful career as a graphic designer and art director, his old passion, oil painting, reasserted itself. He devides his time between Antwerp and the Greek island of Paros, where he has lived on and off for the past fifteen years and where he has his painting studio. These ten works painted during 2020/21 are intended to be a visual reflection of how we deal with adversity.
Triantafillos Alexiou
Greece
The artist lives and works in Ermoupoli, Syros.
His works undertake a different perspective of the island landscape, in relation to the representations that we are used to. With a subject matter inspired by the contemporary environment of the Cyclades, experimenting towards a new Cycladic realism, Alexiou’s paintings capture a side of the islands that remains invisible in the art world, while it has conquered a large part of our daily reality.
Seppo Verardi
Switzerland
Seppo Verardi was born in Switzerland, where his parents had emigrated from Italy. His father met his mother in Syros during World War II. She was an "Anosyrianì" and he was a soldier.
Seppo was raised in Switzerland, where he received his PhD from the University of Basel. During his studies, he worked in factories, for newspapers as a photojournalist, graphic designer, and illustrator.
For 30 years, he was a professor, 25 of which he taught at a high school in Switzerland. He eventually quit teaching because it left him with no time for his art. He pursued art as a postgraduate in London (at the Slade School of Fine Art and St Martins School of Art and Design) and in Bern, with Peter Rieben.
Seppo works in Ascona and has a small studio in Syros. His work has taken him to various parts of Europe. He is also a member of the Swiss Association of Professional Artists and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.
Maria Tzirozidou
Greece
Maria Tzirozidou was born in Athens in 1975. She graduated from the School Of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
For the last fifteen years, she has been living and working as a public art teacher in schools of Sifnos.
Her works are in private collections in Greece and abroad. She has exhibited in Athens and other cities.
Thanassis Baxopoulos
Greece
Thanassis Baxopoulos was born in Athens. He holds a degree in Law from the Law Faculty of Athens and studied History of Art, with a focus on the origins of art and prehistoric art, in Cordoba, Spain.
He has held several exhibitions across various esteemed venues, including Monohoro Gallery and Image Gallery Amalias 36 in Athens, Art Park of Rhodes, Syros Island, Mykonos Municipal Gallery, Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, and Göreme in Turkey.
Akis Kotrotsios
Greece
Akis Kotrotsios was born in Karditsa, where he continues to live and work. His engagement with painting began during his early school years. In 1985, he graduated from the School of Dentistry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Subsequently, he pursued independent studies in painting under the guidance of G. Goula and T. Panto.
Kotrotsios held his first exhibition in 1995 at Galerie “F” and has since worked on theater sets, book covers, and posters. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.
Do you want to expose at Plastico?
Plastico Gallery welcomes portfolio submissions from artists seeking an elegant and informal place in Ermoupolis throughout the year.
The exhibit at Plastico Gallery is free.
A committee reviews each portfolio and submitted work. We take care of the artist promotion, which includes an opening reception, online promotion on social media and much more.
To be considered for an exhibition by the Plastico Gallery’s committee,
please send your portfolio.