CDG | Artists

BA & MA Fine Art

AUTH, Greece and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

2011

Martha Zmpounou is a visual artist and illustrator, based in London. She holds a degree in fine arts from AUTH, Greece and an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art, London. Since graduating, in 2011, she has been awarded the De Laszlo Foundation Award and her work has been exhibited and published widely in the UK and abroad. Some of the exhibitions include the Royal society of Portrait Painters, the Discerning Eye, Modern Panic III, Xhibit and AOI’s best of British Illustration Images 35. Her work has been published several times at Aesthetica’s annuals, creative works and her professional portfolio also includes collaborations with several clients including Nike, Phillip Morris and UAL. More ...

My work revolves around the human form as something that consists of, rather than constitutes something. A construct of fragments and spaces, an assemblage of elements disparate and at the same time connected. The figure becomes a platform where identities are hidden and revealed. In this play, I also use fashion and architectural elements, seen as the “skin” and the “shell” that enable the function of hiding and revealing.
My process of work often involves cutting old drawings, sketches, fragments of paintings found visual imagery to create a body of visual elements that shapes the new through reassembling. These elements are subject to change, distorted at times, broken into pieces flipped over, visual fragments that come together to tell a story about that very human figure.