Jeffery Renard Allen
Writing
2025
Read MoreElefteria Vlavianos is an abstract painter whose visual practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process of abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions.
Drawing on her Greek and Armenian heritage, imagery in her paintings is derived from her on going research into the traditions of Armenian Manuscript Paintings and textile crafts. In this framework issue such a colour, structure, and mark making are key concerns as they translate across time and cultures; and between idioms in painting.
Elefteria has a PhD in Painting from ANU school of Art and Design. She has exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions. Her recent achievements include; being selected as a finalist in the Sulman Prize – 2024, selected for the Artist in Residency program, Chateau Orquevaux, France – 2023, and being selected as a finalist in the 2021 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award. She is currently represented by .MContemporary Gallery – Sydney.
According to the Armenian tradition women were the keepers of thread and men were the guardians of stone. For this residency I will work between stone – raw pigments and the idea of threads. Drawing on my research into Armenian rugs from the 19th century, I will visually begin to translate their vocabulary, motifs, palette and structural design systems into a renewed visual context. These ‘visual translation’ will be experimental and include process of perforation, weaving, dying and painting on paper. This series will be documented in the form of a research diary over the duration of the residency.