About – Themoulla Artist

Themoulla Sofroniou

Mixed Media Artist, Ba Hons Diploma in Acting

My name is Themoulla Sofroniou – I am a mixed media artist, born and raised in London as a Greek-Cypriot and native Greek speaker. I welcome you to my website where I showcase and invite you to explore mixed media art.

In 1991, I received a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from the Polytechnic of East London. I later trained as an actress at Mountview Theatre School and later completed a second acting course at City Lit, earning diplomas from both. In 2012 I completed some classes in bookbinding and combined it with my mixed media art practice.

I have spent a great deal of this time producing work that involves experimenting with materials and tools that I use to execute the work enabling me to push the limits of material boundaries.

I am very interested in the negotiation that occurs between multi-disciplinary art and myriad of marriages that can result from mixing media. Like a cross pollination of disparate art disciplines.

Light is of great interest in my work, especially in the box sculptures. It does much more than illuminate, it is a metaphor and even an emotion – It can bathe its subjects in a glow, a highlight. Whether the light is artificial or natural, it can sculpt everything it touches by emphasising form, creating shadow, and silhouette; it can dramatize as it lifts areas and it can also make us pay more attention as it captures its subject.

The juxtaposition of objects to create chimerical unions or hybrids exhilarates me when it captures the very feeling contained within me whilst making the work. I keep an apothecary of materials, much like a library that I can source from. Lost, overlooked, the marginalised and neglected the inanimate flotsam and jetsam reveal latent narratives when I give them a new autobiographical meaning in my work.

Utilising lost, discarded objects is a kind of metaphor and allows me to create a new identity where I transfer myself into the objects as I orchestrate them into meaningful arrangements and engagements with each other.