Aliki Yiorkas

Aliki is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is autoethnographic in nature; it involves a study of cultural and political history on a personal level.

Her paintings began during the 2021 pandemic lockdown, where in the absence of people, domestic objects became the focus. She became intrigued with how people engage with the materiality of objects and how much they affect us. This melancholic, meditative time was an opportunity for close study, and to see the beauty and sentience of objects.

More recently, Aliki’s work has focused on works on paper. Paper, like skin, can be fragile but also incredibly robust and resilient, it is also intimate and the perfect material to affirm traces of life. Aliki Yiorkas is a Sydney based artist who has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School (2020), majoring in Printmaking. She also holds a Diploma of Visual Arts and an Architectural Drafting Certificate.

Aliki’s work crosses over the disciplines of drawing, printmaking, painting and collage. Aliki’s work is concerned with personal experience, striving to record an emotional response to direct experiences in her world. The earthy, monochrome palette and expressive mark-making inhabit intuitive atmospheres in her figurative works. Her conceptual works explore themes of intergenerational trauma and post-memory and how memories are passed on and shaped by other people’s memories.

Aliki’s work has been selected as finalists in many prizes and has exhibited in the Northern Beaches Library Artist’s Book Award, Waverley Woollahra 9x5 Landscape Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Gosford Art Prize, The Doyles Award, Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, Libris Awards, Whitewall Art Projects, Hunters Hill Art Award, Peebles Print Prize, Blacktown Art Prize, and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.