Ellie Antoniou is a Greek artist who is currently living and working in London, UK. Antoniou holds an MA Degree in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2018-2020), with a scholarship from NEON Organisation for Culture and Development and a BA in Fine Art & History of Art from Goldsmiths University of London (2014-2017).
Antoniou’s practice is a meditation on screens - a contemplation on the absorption of this absurd object as a normative element of contemporary society. It is an introspection and an invitation for reflection; a dialectic process of interrogating proposed notions of singularity. Thoughts on light and acceleration guide her research on spacetime and the increasingly disappearing present. Her images reveal enigmatic forms and speculative spaces vulnerable to interpretation. Antoniou weaves a fluid language across digital and physical means of making, employing an array of processes; from chemical and mechanical treatment of steel plates to the creation of computer-generated environments. Fragments of her esoteric world are revealed in the form of steel engravings, video works, computer games and digital prints.
She was commissioned to create new work for the group exhibition Doomed Companions, Unsubstantial Shades, Hellenic Residence, London (2022) an exhibition, supported by NEON. Her first solo show Overlapping moments of a slightly present (2021) was hosted by Saigon, Athens, Greece. She has previously shown work at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France (2020) and Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, France (2019).
Antoniou has been awarded the ARTWORKS 2022-23 Fellowship by Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Greece. In 2023 she participated in the residency program of Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy and the studio programme Roman Road, London, U.K.She recently showed work at the group exhibition Excursions II(2023), at The Split Gallery, London, U.K.