George Sfougaras Art

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I am proud and happy to continue to export my work to wonderful, caring engaged people who love it and want it, all around the world. That is partly why you can automatically translate this site in over 20 languages. However if you are purchasing my work from outside the UK, things become expensive. You will be asked to PAY IMPORT DUTY on receipt of your item. This can add as much as 20% of the price. This is on top of 20% POSTAGE and insurance charged by the parcel courier, which you will be charged at the checkout.

It saddens me that this is the case, and therefore if you are buying items from the EU, please contact me before buying via my contact form as I would like to help. Alternatively please use this simple online tool : Import Duty Calculator - SimplyDuty The amusingly termed 'Harmonisation Code or HS for the export of my prints is: 4911910090.

January 2024 Illustrations and Promotional film for Malka Al Haddad's 'The Truth at the end of the Night'

January 2024 Publication of 'Re-examined' (a poem in three languages)

January and February 2024: New editions of prints released: 'The Olive Grove' 'A Garden at Night' 'The Golden Muse'and 'Zen''. Zen is the first of a new type of 'multiple' editioned in small numbers. It is a collaboration between George Sfougaras and Dr Paul Rudman.

Process Exhibition: 15th May to the 9th June 2023 Loughborough University, Martin Hall Gallery.

Art House 9th to the 12th of June 2023 ArtHouse has become a well-established local and regional event bringing together local artists and designers, hosted in beautiful local homes.

'The Crossing' VR animation at the Outside the Lines Film Festival

Kinesis is an exhibition of some 30 of my works in a variety of media. Part of the Shrewsbury 'Movement' Art Trail. Gateway Art Gallery, Shrewsbury. The exhibition opens on the 29th at 6.00 pm and finishes on August 31st. Stefan Chabluk will showcase his ceramics alongside my work. Organised in partnership with Turner Street Arts.

LCB Leicester: (In the Courtyard Room). January to December 2023. By appointment.

Etz Hayyim Synagogue, Chania Crete. Research-Exhibitions-Tales from an Old Fort Town.

The Knight Death and the Devil. Leicester Museum Permanent collection.

Welcome to my website. I make work that exists at the intersection of art, history, politics and culture. My topics are drawn from personal experiences, family histories and contemporary events. When I make art, I feel a sense of continuity where time is a concept and all things are happening in the present moment. I create work which I hope engages others at an emotional level, which encourages dialogue, healing and reconciliation, within the self and the world beyond.

I was born in Heraklion, Crete, to Christian parents who were refugees from Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and who subsequently came to the UK during the 1970s military Junta period. These narratives form the cornerstone of my work. My mother’s accounts of the transportation and loss of the island’s Jewish population inspired a book and a number of subsequent exhibitions and residencies in Greece, Israel and Germany. My father’s beautiful accounts of a safe and harmonious life between different faiths in the Istanbul of his childhood, before the destruction of war and the ensuing diaspora, has encouraged me to look at life unencumbered by prejudice. My time as a teacher and most recently a Headteacher of a Hospital School, has taught me that inner happiness and a sense of wonder are to be held on with every bit of passion and strength we can muster. Life is fleeting, and Art serves the purpose of prolonging it, even beyond our time here, through its magic and infinite ways of validating the human experience.

Thanks for visiting.

George Sfougaras

George Sfougaras

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