Nia Hefe Filiogianni is a visual artist, creative director, coach and founder of Cream Athens, a non-profit agency supporting emerging artists from all over the world. Nia’s practice lies between mixed media painting and collage, using primarily recycled textiles and gouache. Her pieces are heavily based on semiotics, with her themes being politics and love, inspired by Greek myths and Ancient Greek culture. Even though her colour palette is limited to pastels which bring a calmness to the eye, the meaning behind her work is darker and opposes the first feeling the spectator takes from the work. Her work presents the beauty and the ugliness, the certainty and the doubt; the investigation of an emotional turmoil expressed in a very symbolic language; through simple shapes, signs, colours and textures.

London

Athens

Nia Hefe Filiogianni

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

The American College of Greece

In Need for Customers (Zitountai pelates)

Warm Cookies

The Archers

Next to the water

Crying Tsarouchi

The Bankers

All For the Hairdressers (Zhtw ta kommotiria)

I(c)onic