Ameladiotis Dimitris Biography

Born in Thessaloniki in 1979

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

SCHOLARSHIPS

Artistic Statement 

In my artistic practise I would like to research how the syndrome of Stickler from which I suffer plays an important role in my crative process. I am partially sighted and hard of hearing. My fingers are rather long because of this disability. This prevents me from doing punctual movements. I love my odd fingers. I do art because I like moving my hands.

In addition, doing art is nothing more than my ambition to carve out for myself a special standing within the society. Great artists in unpleasant pathological and psychological states such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Van Gogh, Monet, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, Alison Lapper etc. encourage me to do art. Doing art I liberate my strong internal energy.

Taking objects and materials like brushes, tools, bottles, newspapers, oil and acrylic paint, tubes, unfired clay, pieces of wood, cloth, toys, knives and everyday throwaway items which are altered, dismantled and distorted by my various actions in my studio I develop an insistent, painful, aggressive, sculptural procedure adding these materials and objects cumulatively. Using these ephemeral materials I wonder : i) how a new form can be created organically, ii) how this new form can exist with a fragile substructure, iii) when this form is a mess and when it is art. My interest is more in the building and development of the new form via repeated movements of my fingers, hands and my body generally.

My creative procedure is characterized by repeated strokes, pats, twists and probing which are gradually more limited by the lack of maternal surface and the continual accumulation of materials. I act under pressure and angst reflecting my pathological and psychological states. The continual movements of my fingers are nothing more than a series of corrective actions on an unpreconceived image which finally distorts. Consequently, any reference to absolute forms is lost, while the transformation characterizes the total work as an object in a continual state of being dismantled and disformed.

During this progression towards autonomy of my works, I am driven to continue its evolution and define its final form, without its being previously conceived, on my own. Therefore, I cannot predict with certainity the evolution of work because :

i) I am led by my work rather than vice versa=the work defines me. ii) I cannot control my fine motor skills because of my pathological disability. iii) I am more interested in the concept of evolution of an object, posing questions which cannot be answered.

 Basically, this process is nothing more than an individual achievement of how I can promote a love of myself. However, it is uncertain that finally I will be able to love myself. My desire is to discover how I can develop my own individual indentity and avoid the collapse of my autonomy in a mechanical society, so that I feel happiness for a moment at least. According to the laws, I am a person in special needs. In my opinion, I am a special person!

Future Plans

In recent five years I have a professional co-operation with TSATSIS PROJECTS / ARTFORUM gallery, which undertakes the promotion and the sale of my works of art. I have participated in various group shows, art residencies and art fairs in Greece and in abroad, as I have already presented my work in two solo exhibitions. Having received a scholarship from Michelis Cultural Foundation, I was a postgraduate student at Fine Arts course of Chelsea College Of Arts & Design.

I feel that this PgDip programme promotes critical studies in relation to artists' own practises encouraging students to return to evaluate their experiences, to sharpen and hone the content of their work and to make preparations for new sales into the unknown, participating in seminars and tutorial group discussions. The course aims to deliver a critical understanding of the knowledge, concepts, principles, technical skills appropriate to whatever media in which students' works in accordance with their development as a self-employed artist and to negotiate the facilities they need for their technic; allowing them the opportunity to increase benefit from the stimuli provided in such a programme.

Coming from a middle class family, I receive a strong income support. Also, as a person in special needs, I receive various pensions from Greek government. Therefore I can be a self-employed artist working from my own studio and I can co-operate with curators who will promote my artistic process. So, I am satisfied with my career.