Ioanna Gouma

www.ioannagouma.com

 

Born in Piraeus. Ioanna graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts with distinction. She has received a scholarship from the state “IKY” Foundation for her MA at the Royal College of Art in London in 2009. She has participated in numerous state and international exhibitions: “Recent Works”, Donopoulos IFA Thessaloniki, 2017 | ROOMS2013 , St. George Lycabettus Hotel,  Athens and Kappatos Art Gallery, 2013 | “Ink”, Medusa Gallery, 2013 | IPCNY International Print Center New York, New Prints 2012 | “Double Take, the Art of Printmaking”, Studio 3 Gallery University of  Kent | Nurture Art  Benefit, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2011/  A room of one’s own, Smilansky 31, Bear Sheva, Israel. 2011 / Drawing Connections, Sienna Art Institute, Sienna, 2010 | Hot Of The Press 10, Curwen And New Academy, London, 2009 | RCA Final Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2009 / Sorry… All Sold Out, Project Space, New Cross, London, 2008 | International Art Triennale, Osaka University of Fine Arts Japan, 2007 |  4th Visual Arts Festival, Action Field Kodra – 06, Thessaloniki, 2006 | 4th International Student Triennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.

 

My work is influenced by geology and biology. A starting point is often the observation of the natural environment - rhythms and routes that I discover in the landscape. I find interest in imperfection and profundity in nature’s impermanence. The images begin with mono-printed stains and drippings worked over extensively with drawing and collage, transforming them into abstract organic hybrid forms. There is an amalgam of oppositions: Micro with macro, the internal in fusion with the external, the underground with the celestial, past with future and archeology with science. Utopian, melancholic, murky maps suggest a universe that is in constant motion, where things evolve from nothingness. The minor, the tentative and the ephemeral remind us of memento mori.