I studied at Edinburgh College of Art and make Intermedia artwork based on an obsession for the history and archaeology found within the Levant and MENA regions. My obsession manifests from ancient Cypriot and Canaanite figures depicting ‘Bird-Faced Goddesses’ which may or may not be goddesses but more like personal artefacts. I then make them into future beings via expressive painting, drawing, sculpting and video work.

As a Scottish-Cypriot artist, I love working with the little figurines that I blurrily remember from my childhood; especially their connection to North Africa and the ancient Levant. I fantasise about what these figurines represent and what they could become. So, I make them. To me they resemble mechanical beings or ancient astronautical cyborgs. Concepts emerging from my study of Donna Haraway ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ where the cyborg represents the rejection of rigid boundaries. I am also a massive fan of the Sci-Fi writings of Isaac Asimov and the Afro-Futurist movement.

I then mix all the concepts to create a Cypro-Futurist perspective without the identity politics as I am more interested in societal coalition because Cypriot culture is a mixture of many ethnicities. There are no ‘pure’ Cypriots because the island is cosmopolitan with history reaching back to the ancient Egyptians, Hittites and Natufians. Therefore, my work represents the cosmopolitan nature of diversity within the self and the act of creation. To make is to exist. I use mixed-media and Intermedia methods to create my pieces because of my curiosity surrounding materiality. I like to see what I can create with traditional and unorthodox materials.