Pigi Spyratou

Visual Artist 

pigisp@yahoo.gr 

Pigi Spyratou was born in 1971 in Athens, where she lives and works. She holds a Master’s degree in Modern Literature from the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, France, and studied Painting, Byzantine Iconography, and Fresco at the Center of Byzantine Iconography, Metropolis of Piraeus. In 2012, she graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts, from the Laboratory of Painting, while also attending the Engraving and Scenography Laboratories. In 2018–2019, she participated in the Annual Scenography Workshop of M. Haniotaki. In 2021–2022, she took part in the training program Modern Pedagogical Approaches to Digital Narration, 3D Animation, and Augmented Reality in Education at the University of Crete, as well as an online seminar on The Animation Technique and Its Applications. She has completed internships in scenography at the Athens Festival and the National Opera. Professionally, she works as a painter and iconographer and teaches art in primary and secondary education. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions in Greece, and she has held two solo exhibitions: In the Light at Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (2014), and Places of Silence at Gallery 7, Athens (2015). Her artworks are included in private collections.

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In 2018- 2019 she attended the LSA laboratory of scenography, where she developed a proposal for Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding.

After graduating from the LSA Laboratory of Scenography, she created works in oil on canvas that continue her artistic research and experimentation, exploring the artistic representation of the invisible spaces of the unconscious. Some of these artworks are held in private collections, while others were exhibited with Gallery 7 at Art Athina in 2021.