Panayiotis Kalorkoti (born 11 April 1957,

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) is a British artist. He works primarily in acrylics and

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour ( Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the ...

, and has also produced

drawing Drawing is a Visual arts, visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface, or a digital representation of such. Traditionally, the instruments used to make a drawing include pencils, crayons, and ink pens, some ...

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other type ...

s, screenprints,

lithographs Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

and monotypes. His work is figurative and features bright colour, economic use of line and makes use of

collage Collage (, from the , "to glue" or "to stick together") is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assembly of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (Compare with pasti ...

, whilst referring to

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and

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Early life

Kalorkoti was born in

in 1957. He was raised in a poor family and moved to the United Kingdom in 1966. He became a British citizen in 1974. He studied at Newcastle upon Tyne University (1976–80) and the

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(1982–85).

Career

Kalorkoti's work has been shown at the

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, London,

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, London, and National Garden Festival, Gateshead. He has worked on major public projects, such as a residency at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria and has been artist in residence for the Leeds Playhouse and has won fellowships,

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and commissions. He was appointed the official war artist for the

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.''The female form by Tamzin Lewis, The Journal''
/ref>''An Artist 'Who Paints in Poetry' EXHIBITION: Kalorkoti by Judith Bumpus, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)''
/ref>''Shedding Light on the Face of Art by Lucy Bell, Coventry Evening Telegraph''
/ref> Kalorkoti has been a part-time visiting lecturer at a number of art schools and won a Netherlands Government Scholarship (1986–87). He was appointed a Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a mem ...

in 1988 and was artist in residence at Cleveland County in 1992.

References

External links

Official websiteBritish CouncilImperial War MuseumArtnetTyne & Wear MuseumsBritish Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalorkoti, Panayiotis Living people 1957 births 20th-century British painters British male painters 21st-century British painters Artists commissioned by the Imperial War Museum British contemporary artists British people of Greek Cypriot descent Cypriot emigrants to England British modern artists Modern printmakers Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom Alumni of Newcastle University Alumni of the Royal College of Art 21st-century British printmakers 20th-century British male artists 21st-century British male artists