Maria Marinou cv

Maria Marinou was born in Athens, Greece, in 1986.

Education

2017-2019: The University of Sheffield – MA Cultural Materials (Distinction)
Taught Masters focusing on archaeological material analysis and cultural materials theory.

2007-2012: Athens School of Fine Arts – BFA/MFA (Distinction)
Five-year study (10 semesters) with a focus on painting, and specialising in Didactics of History of Art.

2015: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Two-month course in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management.

2004-2007: Grigoris Kolizeras Drawing and Painting Studio
Intensive three-year study in the fundamentals of academic classical drawing and painting.

2004-2007: Technological Educational Institute of Athens

Three year study on B&W photography

Awards and additional qualifications

2019: Fronteer Art Exhibition, People’s Choice Award, 2nd Place

2016: Florence Academy of Art Summer Scholarship – Finalist

Artist Residencies

2024-2025: Resident artist with the program “Place, Craft, and Alcohol in Historical Perspective: Exploring Artisanal Brewing and Distilling in Sheffield, Past and Present”, Department of History, University of Sheffield. This project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is exploring what ‘craft’ has done for the history and future of the northern, post-industrial city of Sheffield. Deliverables included a presentation of the thought process behind the production of a drawing commission for CAMRA festival, at the “Pints of Interest: Pubs as Social Landmarks”, co-organized by The University of Sheffield and the Being Human Festival.

2021-2023: Resident artist with the program “Finds Stories: Addressing Mobility through Object and People Biographies”. This is a collaboration between the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, five European research institutions, from Croatia, Greece, Serbia, and the United Kingdom (University of Bristol - department of Archaeology and Anthropology), who were awarded a prestigious Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Research Grant to study mobility in South-East Europe through object biographies.

Publications

Marinou, M. (2023). Creative Biography - A Note from the Artist. Finds Stories - Addressing Mobility through People and Object Biographies, 89 -90. (I. Drnić, K. P. Trimmis, & K. Brkić Drnić, Eds.) Zagreb, Croatia: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.
Marinou, M. (2023). Creative Biography - A Note from the Artist. Finds Stories - Addressing Mobility through People and Object Biographies, 130. (I. Drnić, K. P. Trimmis, & K. Brkić Drnić, Eds.) Zagreb, Croatia: Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.
Trimmis, Konstantinos P., Christina Marini, Zoe Katsilerou, Maria Marinou, Konstantza Kapsali, Melpomeni Perdikopoulou, Valentina Soumintoub, et al. “A Study on Creative Object Biographies. Can Creative Arts Be a Medium for Understanding Object–Human Interaction?” Archaeological Dialogues, 2024, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203824000023.

Selected Published Illustrations

• 2024: Multiple archaeological illustrations featured in: Christos Giamakis (2024). Identity, Power and Group Formation in Archaic Macedonia (600-400 BC). [online] Sidestone Press - Innovative Academic Publishing.
• 2024: Commission from the University of Sheffield (History Department- University of Sheffield City & Cultural Engagement team) to create illustration designs for the Sheffield CAMRA (campaign for real ale) festival.
• 2021: Illustrations featured in: Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, F. 2021. Εν Αρτσίστη τη...Μια ορεινή κοινότητα ανάμεσα σε παρελθόν και μέλλον, In Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, F. (eds). Αθήνα: Εταιρεία Σύγχρονης Ιστορίας
• 2016: Archaeological illustrations featured in: Gawlinski, L. 2017. Towards a Theory of Religious Dress. In Cifarelli, M & Gawlinski, L (eds). What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America.
• 2016-2017-2018: Provided archaeological illustrations for official merchandise associated with excavations at the Athenian Agora.
• 2013: Provided multiple illustration, including front and back cover images in: Kouratou, H. 2013. Katharsis. Athens: Ocelotos Publications.
In Grey Literature:
• Groat, Nicholas Peter (2023) Extracting innovation: an integrated material and experimental analysis of early distillation technology and its characterisation in South-Central Asia. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
• Martens, B. (2018). The marble statuettes from the Athenian Agora, first century BC to fourth century AD PhD thesis, University of Oxford.

Selected Exhibitions

2024: Abstracts @Trippets, Sheffield, UK

2024: Open Up Sheffield at Trafalgar Studios, Sheffield, UK

2024: "Meet the Locals" Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2023: "Maria Marinou: Artwork from the Last Five Years", Gills&Co, Sheffield, UK

2023: "Classical Poses, Gods and Monsters", Maria Marinou, Loukas Georgiou, David Jones, Paul Sellers, Matilda Meanwhile Space, Sheffield, UK

2023: "Maria Marinou @Trippets", Sheffield, UK

2022: "The Fronteer Open", Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK

2022: Maria Marinou & Loukas Georgiou @Trippets Lounge Bar, Sheffield, UK
2021: "The Fronteer Open", Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK
2021: "Abstract", Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2021: "1821, Οπτική μιας Επανάστασης - 1821, Perspective of a Revolution", National War Museum of Athens, Athens, Greece
2020: "Meet the Locals", Fronteer Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2020: Portraits from S1, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
2019: The Fronteer Art, 35 Chapel Walk Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2019: Open up Sheffield (Artists’ Open Studios Sheffield and South Yorkshire), Sheffield, UK
2019: Solo exhibition at Trippets Jazz Bar, Sheffield, UK

2018: The Great Sheffield Art Show, Sheffield, UK
2018: Open up Sheffield (Artists’ Open Studios Sheffield and South Yorkshire), Sheffield, UK
2018: Solo exhibition at Trippets Jazz Bar, Sheffield, UK
2018: Portraits of Sheffield Archaeologists, at The Red Deer, solo exhibition, Sheffield, UK
2017: Painting Now, Studio One Gallery, London, UK
2016: “2nd Fine and Applied Arts Exhibition – Collage Art Lab” – Athens, Greece
2015: "Sphinx 2015 - The Hidden Thebes Festival, International Art Exhibition" -City of Thebes, Greece
2015: "Δεξαμενή Ονείρων", "Dream Tank" - City of Eleusis, Greece
2015: " 2011- 2012 Graduating Class" - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2014-2015: “Painting#1: From Realism to Abstraction” - Chili Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2014: “Images of the sea” - exhibition in collaboration with Greek Centre for Marine Research and
PERSEUS scientific program, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2012: Graduation Exhibition Show - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2012: Engraving Workshop Exhibition - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2010: “A3-Sharing clouds” - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2010: “Art and Bipolarity” - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2010: 7th Painting Workshop Exhibition - Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2009: “A3”- Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2009: “Why cinema now? 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival” - Thessaloniki Cultural Centre of the
Educational Foundation of the National Bank, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008: “Fire Diaries: exhibition with the 7th Painting Workshop” - Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre,
Athens, Greece
2008: Group Exhibition, Pontoporos Gallery, Paros, Greece