Biography. Margarita Lypiridou
Margarita Lypiridou is an artist born in Greece. She works primarily in painting, print media and artist books. In her native country she studied drawing, painting, applied arts and multimedia. Soon after, she moved onto studying graphic design and photography in London, England. In 2002, Lypiridou settled in Canada where she completed both her Bachelor Master’s degree in Visual Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Since 1995, she has been participating in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and North America. She now lives and makes art in Montreal. Lypiridou’s artworks are inspired by the need to create a narrative space that will allow for the exploration of silence, solitude and fluidity of life in a world that contains as much beauty as it contains ugliness. Suspended between the figurative and the abstract, her images attempt to accentuate the ephemerality and volatility of being. Entities and places become excuses for capturing a moment of stillness in the continuous flow of existence, where the present is revealed as a multi-layered structure of memory as well as intention and imagination.