Androulla Michael is an award winning and internationally exhibited visual artist, educator and curator of the Athens Democracy Forum in association with The New York Times, who lives and works in London, UK. She has exhibited in Athens, Brussels, New York, Doha, Rome, Treviso, Mexico City and in London where her work was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023. Her work has been published by Vogue Italia, FABRICA for Fondazione Imago Mundi, Store House Magazine by Norwich University of The Arts, and ROMA MITICA. She is the winner of the Brussels Airlines Arts Award and her work is housed in private and public collections.
Androulla Michael works across painting, photography and moving image to evolve subject matter, which whilst personally derived, also transcends this to become internal vessels appearing as ethereal orbs of light and energy. Strong spiritual and ritualistic references run in the very fibers of her work, which originates from her Eastern Mediterranean cultural upbringing. Her work explores love, loss, identity, and our human existence as a spiritual experience.
Quoting a review of Androulla's work #Selfie of a Nobody (365 Days) by Helen Trompeteler:
“Androulla Michael’s intriguing images challenge historical notions of portraiture by removing any literal likeness of the individual. While Michael’s images are autobiographical in origin, she uses these diaristic images as a means of asking much wider questions concerning societal pressure for perfection or conformism. Where self-portraiture in popular culture often involves a form of social performance, these images are appealing in their abstract and subversive nature.”
BIOGRAPHY
1983 Born and raised in Great Yarmouth, UK.
2019 Lives and works in London, UK
EDUCATION
2002-05 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Norwich School of Art
2001-02 Art and Design Foundation Course, Norwich School of Art
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
30 July - 3 August 2024, WHERE THE TREE MEETS THE CROSS at The Crypt Gallery, Norwich, NR1 4DD.
21 February - 30 August 2024, There Is An Island, Cyprus High Commision House, 13 St. James's Square, London, SW1Y 4LB, UK.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 - LOVE Exhibition, curated by Minnie Weisz and Maria Marshall, Y Museum, Mexico City.
2023 - ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2023 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
2023 - ROMA MITICA, Curated by Minnie Weisz and Paola Frankopan, IL Plebiscito, Rome, Italy
2022 HoME, Athens Democracy Forum, in association with The New York Times, Zappeion, Athens, Greece
2019 Accessible Art Fair, Bozar, Brussels
2018 'Join the Dots' Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Salon deliIncanti, Trieste
2017 Brussels Airlines Likes Art Award, The Loft VIP Lounge, Brussels Airport, Belgium
2016 ‘Art ForTomorrow', sponsored by The New York Times, W Doha Hotel, Qatar
2016 Accessible Art Fair New York, The National Arts Club, Manhattan, New York
2015 Summer Arts Prize, Lacey Contemporary Gallery, London
SCREENING
2014 The Curated Ego: What Makes A Good Selfie? National Portrait Gallery, London
PUBLICATIONS
2023 ROMA MITICA published by Paola Frankopan and Minnie Weisz
2020 A Fictional Walk With Androulla Michael, Norwich University of the Arts, Storehouse Magazine - Together, Together: The Home Issue
2019 WonderIsland – Fondazione Imago Mundi, published by FABRICA
2017 #Selfie of a Nobody (365 days) published by Vogue Italia
AWARDS
2017 Brussels Airlines Likes Art Award
2015 Runner up of The Lacey Contemporary Gallery Summer Arts Prize
COLLECTION
Luciano Benetton