Education
PhD Candidate at the Free University in Berlin/Freie Universität Berlin (Spring 2020-Present)
M.A. Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights (Grade 1,1/First Class Award) from the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences /Fachhochschule Potsdam (2016-2018).
B.A. (Honours) Video Arts Production (First Class Award) from the University for the Creative Arts (2007‑2011).
Languages
English (native), Greek (native/fluent), German (fluent).
Awards & Grants
Arts Council of England Grant for live art video installation piece ASHA (2013).
Deutschland Stipendium scholarship award during M.A. (2017-2018).
Graduate Prize [Absolvent*innenpreis] 2018 from the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences [Fachhochschule Potsdam] for my M.A. Thesis: Between agency and abuse: a look at the representation of childhood sexuality through media and art.
PhD Scholarship [Promotionsstipendium] funding awarded from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation [Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes] for my doctoral research (2021-present).
Nomination for the Prize for best Teaching [Preis der beste Lehre] of the social science department of the Free University (2022).
Screenings, Exhibitions & Publications
Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA): moving past the taboo and into the postcolonial (2022). In: Society Register Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2
ReFraming, Delphi Space, Freiburg, November 2021
Lockdown Poetry Series, poems based on my experience of the corona lockdown and beyond. Commissioned by Dover Arts Development (DAD) through their DAD Artists at Home project, May-October 2020
Between Agency & Abuse: A Look at the Representation of Childhood Sexuality through Media and Art (2020). Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau
Down Under Dance, screened at SHORT FILMS BY Artists, Lewisham Arthouse, London, in September 2019
Down Under Dance, video and stills exhibited as part of group art show About Nature-Natürlich Kunst, at the PlanetArt Festival of Nature, commissioned by NuArt Berlin and NABU Germany, Berlin, September 2019
Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse as ‘Children out of Place’ (Chapter 10). Academic writing published in book: Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives, edited by Nadia Von Benzon & Catherine Wilkinson (2019)
The circle line, sound recording of poem showcased at Open Hause, H.34 Ehrlichhaus, Buch, Berlin, September 2016
The circle line, sound recording of poem showcased at JRM – Le Jardin de Recherches Musicales, Paris, August 2016
A Space, performed poem in an intervention at HERMITAGE (II) : FERAL group show with artists Alix Stadtbaeumer, Alma Tischler Wood and Kathy Kenny, David Hawkins Private Space, Berlin, September 2015
Grace, poem published in A POEM A DAY Anthology Calendar (2014):
A POEM A DAY exhibition, Mu.ZEE Oostende, Belgium, November 2014 – February 2015
Sticks and Stones, part of the David Chipperfield exhibition, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, October – November 2014
Festival of Future Nows, upon invitation of Olafur Eliasson & Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin, October – November 2014
ReFraming, ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, June 2014
ASHA, The Bower House, Maidstone, October 2013
ASHA, Leyton Technical Pub, London, September 2013
ASHA, Limbo, Margate, September 2013
ASHA, The Louis Armstrong Pub, Dover, August 2013
Transparency, Leytonstone Arts Trail 2013, with Clare Smith, at The Red Lion Pub, London, July 2013
ReFraming, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, June 2013
ReFraming, Labia Cinema, Cape Town, May 2013
ReFraming, Crate Space, Margate, April 2013
ReFraming, Cambridge University’s Women’s Day Events, Cambridge, March 2013
ReFraming, B&B Project Space of Club Shepway, Folkestone, January – February 2013
ReFraming, Maidstone Film Fest 2012, Maidstone, November 2012
ReFraming, 51:zero° Voyager Film, Video and Digital Media Arts Festival, Maidstone, October 2012
I will wait for you, mixed media piece shown in Group Show TEXT at Gallery 23, Maidstone, September – October 2012
ReFraming film premiere, The Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club, part of DAD’s War & Peace programme, Dover, September 2012
Medway Meandering, LV21 Festival, Gillingham, September 2011
Heart, Untitled 7 and Untitled 13, live art video installation shown at Battery Hens Group Exhibition, The Rag Factory, London, June 2011
The Mill, screened on the BBC Big Screen, Dover, 2011
My first short film Breaking and Entering (2009) became a finalist in a competition conducted by TheCrane.tv and showcased on their website in 2009. It was screened at the Culture Unplugged Film Festivals We Speak Here and Humanity Explored, based in San Francisco, Auckland and Maharashtra, June and December 2010.
It was also screened at the following film festivals:
- Cyprus International Film Festival, Nicosia, October 2010
- Portobello Film Festival, London, September 2010
- Vibgyor Film Festivals, Kerala, February 2010
- Big Easy Shorts Festival, New Orleans, November 2009
- WILDsound Film Festival, Toronto, October 2009
- Be Film: The Underground Film Festival, New York City, May 2009
Work
Potsdam University for Applied Sciences [Fachhochschule Potsdam]: Academic Coordination of the international Masters in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights (MACR)
This is a part-time post, where I have the responsibility to coordinate the academic aspect of the MACR, coordinating the curriculum, as well as take part in the teaching and supervising of postgraduate students.
Free University Berlin [Freie Universität Berlin]: Lecturing, Berlin, November 2020-March 2022
Lecturing students on a bachelors course (educational science) about children’s rights and childhood sexuality through the use of academic literature and multimedia (films, art images, photographs).
Potsdam University for Applied Sciences [Fachhochschule Potsdam]: Lecturing, Potsdam, October 2018-July 2021
Lecturing students on two bachelors courses (social work and early childhood education) about children’s rights and childhood sexuality through the use of multimedia (films, art images, photographs), tying in my focus on the representation of childhood sexuality through art and media.
Douglas Gordon Studio: Lost But Found/Old Dog New Tricks, Berlin, May and June 2014
Part of a group assisting artist Douglas Gordon, in the production of work at his studio.
Foreign Investment, Berlin, September 2013
Invited to perform the tableau vivant piece The Urban Shepherdess in exhibition Wild New Territories.
Dover Arts Development (DAD) + Korinna McRobert, Dover, August 2013
A one-week residency with DAD in the follow up to the first performance of my piece ASHA.
Dover Arts Development (DAD), Dover, May 2013
Filmed and edited a short video of the Workshop in Spontaneous Creativity, a one-day event and part of DAD’s War & Peace programme.
Making Art Work, Maidstone, December 2012
A commission by this artist co-operative to make a short evaluation video on work they did in 2012.
Foreign Investment, London, September 2012
Invited to perform the tableau vivant piece The Urban Shepherdess in exhibition Wild New Territories.
London Biennale, Dover, July 2012
Part of an ensemble performance LB White Happy Hour Dover.
Dover Arts Development (DAD) – Clare Smith, Dover, July 2012
Filmed and edited a video for Clare Smith’s work The Voyagers.
Dover Arts Development (DAD), Dover, July 2012
An artist residency-internship granted by DAD. Worked to aid in their day-to-day administrative activities, as well as completing my first long length film ReFraming.
University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Maidstone, July 2011
Student ambassador.
University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Maidstone, July 2011
Part of the crew that assisted Stephen Turner in his work Sedimental.
Dover Arts Development (DAD), Dover, March and July 2010
Part of the crew for the documentary feature film Watermark by Marianne Kapfer.
University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Kent, May 2010
Part of the crew for the short promotional film made by UCA to promote their student development services.
Roads and Oranges Film Productions, Nicosia, Cyprus, August 2008 – August 2009
Production Assistant and Archive Researcher for the documentary feature film In this Waiting. I also contributed my translation skills to the project (English and Greek).
Minds Eye Films & Roads and Oranges Film Productions, Cyprus, July 2006
Production Assistant on the set of the short film Fractured by Johnny Kevorkian.