Thesis title: Re-Articulation: Retrieval, Renewal and Beyond: Translating a visual aesthetic within the fold of postmemory.

Supervisors: Dr Charlotte Galloway, Ruth Waller, Anne Brennan

Elefteria Vlavianos is an abstract painter who’s visual practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process of abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions as a visual translation of a displaced cultural aesthetic. Imagery in her paintings derive from her research of thirteenth-century Armenian manuscript paintings and the tradition of Armenian textile crafts. Continued themes within her practice are time, silence, presence and memory. Elefteria is a candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy at ANU School of Art and Design.  

"I look forward to continuing my research in relation to my practice as an abstract painter as it relates to the field of post-memory and cross-cultural studies. Goals - to apply to a number of artist in residency programs."