Primordial Enigma | 2024 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Australia

Primordial Enigma is on sale and display at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show until this Sunday. If you're loving this piece, you can vote for it for the People's Choice Award winner!

Click the VOTE at https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/.../primordial-enigma/63

Artist Statement

“Primordial Enigma delves into the interplay between reality and the subconscious, where shapes from dreams and imagination materialise into tangible forms. I sculpt representations of these ephemeral forms that inhabit my artistic visions. Familiar shapes transform and merge into enigmatic entities—sometimes resembling fungi, body parts, or even entire creatures.

These fluid forms emerge from the solidity of the wood, inviting you into a realm of interpretation and projection onto my personal narratives.

My mentor and his workers laughed when I chose this piece of wood for it's various knots and eyes. I followed these features to guide the form using chainsaw and chisels. The process is a collaboration between artist and material, each stroke of the tool is a dialogue with the medium, a dance between intention and spontaneity to bring these forms to fruition.”

Form + Philosophy | McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery | Langwarrin, Australia

Embark on a visual journey with the, Form and Philosophy exhibition featuring Ioanna’s sculpture, Logos at the renowned McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. This the striking sculpture was the precursor to Ioanna's 2023 international solo exhibition, Artificial Assimilation.

Join us for the celebration of the opening on Saturday 20th January between 2 and 4 pm. Sculptor and educator John Meade will speak at the opening.

This Association of Sculptors Victoria exhibition, Form + Philosophy can be found in the Sarah and Baillieu Myer Pavilion of McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. The Gallery is open 10am to 5pm Wednesday to Sunday. Last entry to the Park is at 4:30 each day. There are 69 sculptures on show and on sale from 53 sculptors. You can also enjoy John Meade's exhibition "It's Personal" in the main galleries and of course the magnificent collection of 20th and 21st Century sculpture all through the grounds.

Logos is available for sale at the park or online for $1, 300. Please get in touch with the McClelland Sculpture Park for sale.

McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery:
390 McClelland Drive Langwarrin
VIC Australia 3910
Phone +61 3 9789 1671
info@mcclelland.org.au

Appointment of Director | Darwin Visual Arts | Australia →

Ioanna stepped into her new role as the Director of the Darwin Visual Arts Association with a vision and determination to steer the organisation towards greater heights. With a background rooted in the arts and a keen understanding of the local creative landscape, Ioanna brings a wealth of experience to her position. Her appointment heralds an exciting chapter for the Association, which stands as an artist-run space dedicated to championing contemporary art across various realms—local, national, and international. 

Darwin Visual Arts has just celebrated 40 years with a collaborative members’ exhibition showcasing local talent. 

Ioanna’s primary focus centres on orchestrating the artist members and nurturing an environment that fosters the growth and exposure of emerging / established artists, and curators. She is passionately committed to positioning the Association as a pivotal regional hub, offering a platform for creatives to thrive and innovate. 

Ioanna announcing the inaugural Darwin Art Prize to commence at Darwin Visual Arts, 2024.

Solo Exhibition | Artificial Assimilation | Garage Kollectiv, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Artificial Assimilation is a sculpture exhibition presenting artworks made of wood and stone. Ioanna creates a contrast between the futuristic theme of emerging technology and the timeless nature of art in traditional materials. In this exhibition you will see robots, animals and abstract forms that invite consideration on how we consume information and form collective intelligence. These sculptures are Ioanna’s most recent work, created in last 6 months in Australia, Indonesia and Switzerland.

Exhibition opens Friday Jan 6 at 6pm at Garage Kollectiv, located less than an hour from Zurich at Rebleutagang 2, 8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Join us for the first unveiling of these artworks to the public with drinks, live vinyl, nibbles and a brief artist talk.

Exhibiting | Group shows across Australia

Exhibiting across Australia. Images left to right; Drip lick, Logos, Masked.

Drip lick | Unique Bronze | 2020

Melbourne

An eerie twist on the classic reclined nude. Drip Lick strips this sharp figure back to her mechanical and raw core, an organic and fluid base supporting her. 

This artwork was made from studying a live model in wax. The wax was cast into bronze and the base carved from marble. Then, Ioanna made a silicon mold and a full wax version in order to work directly into the wax with heated tools. This technique brings you details such as the drips on the full form of the base. 

Driplick was created in 2020 during the first Melbourne lockdown in a share house of artists based in Prahran.

Exhibited until February 5, 2023.

Logos | Pohan Pole Wood Carving | 2022

Darwin

You can say hi to Logos @ncca_darwin for until December 17. Curious works by local and international artists as a part of their ‘24HR Art’ exhibition.

Masked | Industrial steel, rust, acrylic and resin | 2022

Katherine

Come see this Covid muzzle showcased in the selected Katherine Art Prize exhibition.

Ancient Greek Processes to Indigenous Community | ALPA | Nhulumboy, Australia

Ioanna has partnered with The Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) for a pilot project. A group of 10 indigenous participants will create small sculptures, tools and jewellery using recycled aluminium in the craft of lost-wax casting.

Nhulunbuy has a bauxite mine due for demolition in 2024 for a rehabilitation project. Bauxite is the raw ore for aluminium, the processing used to occur on site in Nhulumbuy. The group have collected waste aluminium from the surrounding areas as their material and will be melting and casting metal in the coming days.

Public Program | Access and Ethics of Art by Artificial Intelligence | GYRACC | Katherine

The Artists Need Not Apply Exhibition at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture Centre (GYRACC), Katherine opens Friday 5 August at 5pm alongside Dawn Beasley’s Botanically Porcelain exhibition.

As a part of the exhibition’s public program, Ioanna and Lukas are facilitating a group discussion at the gallery on Saturday August 6, 11am. You can attend the gallery or feel welcome to tune in and ask questions on the live feed via Instagram and Facebook page. Key topics in this talk will include access to this technology and the ethics of creating art with indigenous characteristics.

A free workshop to the public on how to leverage Artificial Intelligence programs, specifically Generative Adversarial Networks (GANS) will be held on Saturday, September 10 between 9am - 12pm. Utilising GANS is a digital literacy skill for artists and designers seeking to expand their ideation process and general practice. No experience is required. Bring a laptop if you have one.

Art made my AI Exhibition | GYRACC | Katherine

Artists Need Not Apply is an exhibition comprised entirely of art made by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Facilitators Lukas Bendel and Ioanna Thymianidis have received funding to launch this exhibition at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts & Culture Centre. Exhibition opens Friday August 5, 2022. 

This exhibition will facilitate a panel discussion on the ethical and moral considerations of creating art with emerging technology and the future of art with AI. 

Stay tuned with these links to the Artists Need Not Apply Instagram and Facebook page. 

Meet ANNA

Created using an Artificial Intelligent program that designs logos. This logo was designed based on a request for a self-portrait.
ANNA - Artists Need Not Apply…

Group Exhibition | Soak Tumble Dry | Darwin

Soak Tumble Dry is an annual exhibition featuring artists bewitched by the Top End wet season. This years pop-up exhibition showcases exciting photographic imagery and stone and metal sculpture emblazoned by the tropical urban environment.

This year Ioanna has been invited to exhibit her sculptural work and deliver 2 workshops in the prublic program. See program in images below and full article from Off The Leash here.

Solo Exhibition | Transmutation | Tactile Arts, Darwin

Transmutation

Spores. Chasms. Your Anatomy.

Ioanna has understaken a three month site specific residency at Tactile Arts exploring the beautiful and brutal fragments of waste mutating with nature. The exhibition is a close lens on the transmutation between the natural world and human order. Focusing on local flora, found materals and waste, Ioanna has created a series of sculptures and wearable art.

Transmutation has just been extended to May 22nd and is open Tuesday - Sunday 10am -4pm.

Artist Talk | Lost-Wax Casting

Join Ioanna at Tactile Arts tonight for a talk about history, technical process and her personal art practice in the craft of lost-wax casting.

23 March, 6pm GMT + 9:30

Tactile Arts: 19 Conacher St, The Gardens NT 0820

Join the discussion from anywhere live on Facbook and Instagram.

Workshop | Lost Wax-casting and Smelting in Aluminum | Tactile Arts | Darwin, Australia

See this video for a teaser of what to expect Ioanna’s upcoming workshop on the lost-wax casting process.

In this two-session workshop, you will be modelling with wax, creating an investment mould and basic metalworking. You can expect to finish this workshop with multiple small pieces cast in aluminium.

Enquire for future workshops and foundry buids through Ioanna’s contact page.

Book your spot: https://tactilearts.org.au/products/lost-wax-casting-and-smelting?variant=41455613902998

Artist in Residence | Tactile Arts, Darwin

Ioanna is commencing a 3 month residency at Tactile Arts, Darwin. Stay tuned for her public program including casting workshops and technical talks. Ioanna will be exploring local flora in small sculpture and jewelry and is looking forward to skill sharing and collaborating with other artists. The body of work for this residency will be presented at her solo show opening April 15th 2022.

Future Flora | Aluminium on Volcanic Rock | 2021

Award | Godinymayin Inaugural Jewellery Prize | Australia, Katherine

Ioanna’s piece Casuarina Uarch has been awarded the Godinymayin Inaugural Prize in the Jewelry category of the 2021 Katherine Art Prize exhibition.

”This Jewellery is definitely worth it’s weight in bronze. A Casuarina seed cast in bronze hung on a silver chain encapsulates the coastal territory living style. This piece is an original one of a kind piece that stood out straight away to our judges.”

Casuarina Uarch is one of two jewelry pieces which will shortly be released to order.

To see the other awarded artworks in the Katherine Art Prize exhibition including the works of Lawrance Rimes and Catherine Miles, visit the Godinymayin's site: https://gyracc.org.au/katherine-art-prize/...

SoundStone | Live Stone Carving | Darwin Fringe Festival 2021, Australia

A perfromance sculpture and sound collaboration between Ioanna and sculptor Gaia. Described as a mezmerising visual, sound and kinesthetic journey witnessing two artists create from stone and sound. In this 2 hour performance, sculptor, Ioanna transformed a raw limestone slab into a spectacular sculpture as producer and musician Gaia produced the sounds to inspire and amplify the experience. Performed and filmed at Happy Yess for the closing event of Darwin Fringe 2021.

Gaia / MisS Possum: https://www.facebook.com/posmism

Workshop | Lost Wax-casting in Recycled Aluminum | Darwin, Australia

Ioanna’s latest lost-wax casting workshop in recycled aluminium will be launched and open to the public this October. This is a low-tech training course delivered over three workshop sessions in the ancient craft of lost-wax casting with recycled materials. This initial workshop is part of a wider capacity building project and is ideal for artists and creatives interested in exploring sculpture and jewelry processes.

Please see more information in the Facebook Event, and book though the Eventbrite Booking.

Public Workshop | Lost Wax-casting in Recycled Aluminum

Ioanna has built an aluminum foundry and been training members of the community during an Artist Residency in Crystal Waters, Queensland. With a focus on sustainability, this foundry has been built using upcycled materials and reaches 700°C to recycle aluminum, including soda and beer cans.

This weekend workshops will open to the public to learn the ancient lost-wax casting technique to casting metal. Participants will be receiving step by step guidance through the process to transform wax motifs, tools and creations into solid aluminum.

You can read more about the workshop to the public and book a ticket through Eventbrite here.

Rabbits Eat Lettuce Performance | Corporate Carving

Chisel and tomahawk to stone following the beat of the music. This live stone carving performance unfolded over three days through three blocks of stone. The inspiration for this piece was the music and energy of the crowd with Ioanna carving on stage as the vehicle for expression. The sound of Jamie Forest, LO’99, OKA and Late Nite Tuff Guy guided this piece with a curious and keen crowd of viewers.

For a debrief of this vibrant festival gathering, read Kate Stephenson’s feature here.

 Photos by Duffy

Performance | Corporate Carving at Rabbits Eat Lettuce

See Ioanna descend masked and wearing a suit to her elevated studio; a podium next to the mainstage emanating electronic bass. Punctual and disciplined, her suit and mask are swapped for a dusty boiler suit. You’ll see her carving the veins of the stone to the BPM of the music, an intense and cathartic feeding of the soul to be seen daily.

Corporate Carving demonstrates a corporate and creative conflict of the self. This performance is a site specific response to the mundanity of adulthood routine and the drive for expression we have within us.

Rabbits Eat Lettuce is a music and community festival held over on the indigenous lands of the Kabi Kabi peoples. This Easter weekend event is running Thu, 1 Apr 2021 – Sun, 4 Apr 2021 with a daily performance from Ioanna. Tickets and lineup for Rabbits Eat Lettuce can be accessed here.

Solo Exhibition | Ether_21 | Cancelled

Upcoming Solo Exhibition Ether_21 has been postponed due to border closures in New South Whales and Victoria. Ether_21 was scheduled to open January 9 and now will take place in March 2021. Please use the contact form if you’d like to be kept informed on exhibition details.

Ether_21 is an interactive presentation of physical and perceptive context in the post 2020 environment. This body of work depicts industrial, plant and human forms through installation and sculpture, giving consideration to changed worlds and lived experiences.