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.

Spacetank Studio | Australia | Coburg

Ioanna has ended 2020 working alongside artisans at Spacetank Studio makerspace. Over the last months, Ioanna completed her series for her upcoming solo exhibition ‘Ether_21’.

Facing | Resin | 2020

Ioanna most recent work ‘Facing’ is composed through 3D modelling. This piece introduces a new exploration of technologically driven mediums to her work. Printed with Kad 3D at Spacetank studio.

Art Movers

Shoot at Spacetank studio with Ioanna’s sponsors Dickies and PBLK SRVC. The New York publication, ‘Art Movers’ will be released January 11th.

Alias B_20 | Bronze and Marble | 2020

Alias B_20 is the beginning piece of a sequence of sculptures created from life sittings during isolation. The figure of this piece is bronze that was made through the ancient lost-wax bronze casting process and the Italian marble carved by hand to respond to the form. Alias B_20 is on display at Belle Epoque until December when it will be showcased at Belle Epoque Contemporary’s upcoming exhibition centered around empowering women.

Artist In Residence | Blue Mountains

Stone carving in the scenic Blue Mountains is how Ioanna has settled into NSW. Contemporary artists Jodee Knowles and Creon hosted Ioanna for this residency in Katoomba, home of the Three Sisters. Ioanna has spent her days sculpting in the sun and evenings keenly building an extending list of projects between the three artists.

See artworks below by Jodee Knowles and Creon.

Στούντιο καφέ | Open To The Public | Australia, Northcote

Step past the front gate and wander down the side alley of a quiet suburban house to find a tiny backyard shed.

Inside this shed you will connect, create and experience a system of exchange without currency.

Ioanna Thymianidis has spent isolation converting a shed into a studio, cafe and interaction space in Northcote, Melbourne. 

Visitors can expect Greek coffee, tea and sweets… and getting your hands dirty sanding sculptures in exchange for your tab. Rest assured this space is designed to follow Covid-19 regulations. High levels of caution are taken with sterilisation, 1.5m of distance among other measures of safety.

The emphasis on Greece notes Ioanna’s heritage as she reconnects with her roots in this city. This theme also draws on a culture of gathering over rituals of eating and drinking while connecting. 

Στούντιο Kαφέ is now open by appointment to the public June 6 - June 26. The only prerequisite to visit is interest to participate.

Covid-19 Cancellations / Postponed Events

Due to quarantine restrictions, events where Ioanna is booked for demonstrations, including the 2020 Melbourne International Flower and Garden show have been cancelled. With the current travel ban, upcoming exhibitions will be delayed including ‘Terra Incognito’ at Galleri Kladden, Norway. Ioanna released the following statement:

“With a heavy heart, I'm announcing my upcoming projects and demonstrations will not go forward due to the heightened travel and quarantine restrictions.

My solo ‘Terra Incognito’ at Gallery Kladden, Oslo will be postponed until a later date. I'm taking this as an opportunity to deepen this body of work.

I'm so grateful to be based in Australia during this time. I will hit the road soon to document and create art about human nature during this pandemic.”

Exhibition | The Art Students League of New York

Bronze sculpture ‘Flake’, is being exhibited at The Art Students League of New York until December 29. Lana is proud to have her work shown at this institution that has taught and displayed the art of prolific artists including Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock and Ai Weiwei. 

Composed in 2018 during Ioanna’s residency in Norway, ‘Flake’ takes the form of a creased paper plane. This piece is a part of her series ‘The Artificial’, that presents playful and disposable man made forms into bronze sculptures.  

Group Exhibition | My Two Cents

Three of Ioanna’s sculptures have been selected as a part of 'My Two Cents', a group exhibition of future nostalgia. These pieces come from her most recent body of work which was developed during her 2018 studio residency in Norway. See 'Fleeting', 'Fly' and 'Fault' exhibited at No Vacancy from 21.05.19 to 26.05.19.

Fault | Bronze | 2019

Group Exhibition | Open Eye Signal

Ioanna Thymianidis is pleased to be selected in the exhibition Open Eye Signal at Fort Delta until November 23 2018.

Artists:

Ed Bats | Katrina Dobbs | Robbie Fraser | Simon Gardam | Stephen Giblett | Claudia Gleave | Belem Lett | Hugo Koha Lindsay | Ollie Lucas | Elyss McCleary | David McDonald | David Palliser | Harry Park | Peta Petrakis | Lana Thymianidis | Danae Valenza

Artist Residency | Norway

Ioanna is currently based in Southeast Norway for the research and development of her next body of work. The first piece of this series, ‘Fleeting’ is a taste of her upcoming collection and can be found at Fort Delta Gallery in an upcoming group show.

Award | Tina Wentcher Prize

Ioanna has been awarded the 2018 Tina Wentcher Prize at the Annual Association of Sculptors of Victoria exhibition. As their biggest annual event, over 150 selected artists are showcasing their work at Bourke Place, Melbourne. You can see her winning piece, ‘Stand’ until August 24.

Christopher Deutscher - Deutscher and Hackett | Fine Art Auction

“This small group of found decaying wood fragments, delicately cast in bronze, examines (with a magnifying glass) the intersection of the natural and artificial worlds. There is a tenderness of treatment and placement of the fragments that creates another existence, a new and precious world.”