About Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
 is a site-specific installation artist working across the varied media of sculpture, installation, video and sound, photography and architectural interventions. Her materials range from the unusual to the ordinary and the ephemeral to the precious; they include organic materials, foodstuffs and precious metals. Central to her practice is a response to the particularities of place; its history, locale, environment and/or communities.
Over the past ten years, she has exhibited extensively and realized numerous commissions nationally and internationally, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm. Recent sites and commissions include Pied à Terre, London; Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne; Southgate Shoping Centre, Bath; Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Ireland; ArtSway at 51st Venice Biennale and Public Room, Skopje. She graduated in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow in 1996 and the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva has been selected by the Minstry of Culture of Macedonia to represent Macedonia at the forthcoming 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, working with the National Gallery of Macedonia, this summer. Elpida is also currently developing a new commission for mima and Engage as part of the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award Artist Residency and a new work for the artSOUTH project at Mottisfont Abbey. She is also developing a new art and medicine project with Dr. Richard Day and Professor Alastair Forbes at University College Hostpital, London.