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Helene Athanasiadis was born in Melbourne in 1969. Beginning her career in 1989 as a Fashion Design graduate from RMIT University, Helene worked within various facets of creative fashion that included costume design and photographic styling. In 1999 she took a sudden career change and enrolled in an archaeological degree at La Trobe University graduating in 2006 with a dual honours degree in Archaeology and Art History. Since then she has worked professionally as an archaeologist, archaeological technical photographer and illustrator. Although Helene has always been creative, it has only been in the last few years that she has been able to devote much of her time to creating fine art photography and mixed media works. In both mediums she is guided by archaeological concepts; layered, stained and aged, all rendered in muted & textured tones. She is also inspired by rural landscapes and botanicals. Helene's latest body of work explores abstract forms within her photographic compositions. By altering them through orientation and then painting and illustrating over them, Helene transforms the photograph into a single work of art. Helene currently divides her time between Melbourne and Castlemaine in Victoria, Australia. EXHIBITIONS
2016 Antipodean Palette, Group Show, Steps Gallery, Carlton. 2016 Alpha, Solo Exhibition, 69 Smith Street, Gallery, Melbourne 2016 Terrain, An exhibition with Jinari Mountain as part of Castlemaine Arts Open 2015 Entourage, Window installation, Mount of Alex Bookshop, Castlemaine Sate Festival 2014 Land- escapes, Group show, Melbourne City Library, Melbourne 2014 Assemblage II, Open Studio Exhibition 2014 Castlemaine Arts Open Festival 2014 Arise, Solo Exhibition Apple Annie’s Café Gallery, Castlemaine 2013 Assemblage I, Open Studio Exhibition, Studio Launch, Lot 19 Artspace, Castlemaine 2013 A Curiously Antiquarian View of the World, Installation, 2013 Castlemaine State Festival 2010 Wood & Feathers, Pallete entry & display, The Exquisite Palette, St. Luke, Collingwood 2008 Archaic Stratum, Window Installation, Journal Cafe, Melbourne EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Arts, Double Hons. Archaeology and Art History 1991 Bachelor of Arts, Fashion Design, RMIT University Final year elective major: Photography |
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