Bio

Romilios is a Greek - Australian artist and filmmaker. He was born in 1983 in Greece. He studied Communication and Public Relations in Greece and completed his Master in Marketing, in Portsmouth University (UK).

As a painter, he is working in a wide-ranging practice that incorporates a variety of different media and techniques. He is noted for his use of text, recycled materials, and fragments collected from his studio. His painting combine abstract art and surrealist fantasy.

A few years later he attends special photography and filmmaking seminars next to Dimitris Tsevas and Michael Anastasiou. Since 2017 he has been working as a freelance photographer working with various magazines and creative agencies.

In 2020, wrote and directed his first short film “Goodnight my love”.

Artist Statement

The amount of creativity that was storaged inside me, creates unexpected pieces that are abstract visualization of all my previous experiences. As an artist I create work that reflects my inner emotions. I capture movement and life.

I use traditional materials, acrylic paint, charcoal, pastels, ink. I experiment with them to find what suprising final effect can be achieved.

Painting is a kind of meditation to eliminate the negative thoughts that can cloud the mind. Blue of the sea is a source of inspiration to me. 

My process involves working on several pieces at the time to create dialogue between them, moving from one to another allows me develop the ideas and pushing the boundaries. 

Education:

2015, Screen and Film School Central - Brighton, UK 
2011, Marketing MA, University of Portsmouth

2007, Communication & Digital Media, University of Macedonia, Greece
2003, Black and White Photography - Leica Academy 

Solo Exhibitions

2014/ "Vintage Times", Moca Shanghai
2013 / “Waste Land”, Texnopolis Athens, Greece

2011 / “Breathe, Keep Breathing”, Unlimited, Athens Greece

2009 / “Nevermore”, Bond Street Gallery, 297 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY

2008, Fingerhut Gallery, / 1205 Prospect St, La Jolla, New York

2008 / “Recall Athens”, Artio Gallery, Athens Greece

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 / Ultra-Colour Collection Louvre Museum Paris

2014 / Zonta-Makati’s Filipina Art and Fashion fair

2011/ Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute

2011/ “Philosophical Art”, Greece/ Word Philosophical Forum

2011/ “Drawing Connections”, Siena Art Institute,  / Siena, Italy

2011/ "Where Art Philosophy", Philosophical Forum World, Athens, Greece

2009/ “Dreams and Nightmares”, Texnopolis, Athens, Greece

2008 / “Default Lanscapes” Daniel Reich Gallery, 23rd Street in Chelsea

2007 / “The Diaries”, “Sentimental Sequence”, Astra Gallery Caryatidon 8, Akropolis, Athens

Performance Art:

2011 Beton 7, "The Christmas Island" Nikos Charalambides

2011 Athens Biennale, «I have to say Fantasiometriki ecstasy," Nadia Argyropoulou

Publications

"Heavy papers" - Photography book cover, Publisher: Ocelotos / ISBN: 9789605647735 / 2019
Ultra-Color Collection Book, 2015, page 48

ArtStrada, Vol2, page 25-26, 2014

Artistio, page 23 - 27, 2014

ArtZone, page 25, 2014

Art on Fire, page 29-31, 2014

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