Born in 1955 in Athens, she studied sculpture in Paris, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1974-1978) under Couturier and Delahaye. At the same time she studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (1974-1978) under Renée Bossaert, and later worked in that school as assistant (1982-1984) in the department of ceramic sculpture. She lived in Paris for a total of eleven years.
Her first solo exhibition with sculptures and drawings was held in 1980 at the Nees Morfes Gallery in Athens. Initially working mainly with clay, she went on to constructions using wood, fabric, iron, wire, paper or string. A typical element in her work is the cultural references of various origins which she codifies and combines in her compositions. Her works often resemble souvenirs or religious offerings, and her personal idiom incorporates archetypal symbolisms in a contemporary visual and conceptual context. Her frequent allusions to the archetype of woman-nature underscore the depth and the refined emotional side of her figures.
One special aspect in her work is her artistic approach to writing, with her three-dimensional collages often incorporating texts, poems and words. Individual letters are often treated as drawings, and texts as self-contained compositions. This particular interest led to a series of seminars on art and writing at the Benaki Museum’s Museum of Islamic Art in 2011.
She has had over thirty solo exhibitions in Athens and other Greek cities as well as in Paris, London, Heidelberg, Nicosia, Brussels, New York and Bergen. She has participated in many group exhibitions and art meetings in Greece and abroad (France, Britain, Belgium, Egypt, Italy, China, Turkey).
Works of hers are included in the collections of the French Ministry of Culture, the Ernest Renan Museum (Tréguier, France), The Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, New York), the Museum of Islamic Art in Athens, The Historical Archive of the National Bank, the Frissiras Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Florina, the Anthropological Museum of Ptolemais, in Municipal Galleries, private Museums and Foundations and in major private collections in Greece and abroad.