Nicoletta Savvidou is a Cypriot-born, London-based artist whose practice encompasses both functional objects and experimental works with clay, glass and glaze. Her work investigates and explores ways to highlight the complexities and qualities of the world around us that go unnoticed or sometimes taken for granted.
The materials are the protagonists in her work, and she is deeply guided by the choices of materials and the processes she follows. Her practice is iterative, where ideas are explored through the study of material experiments of different combinations of clay, glass and glaze as well as through drawings and the creation of small-scale objects. She believes it is important to allow things to simply be as they are, that way you capture the way relationships unfold—unpredictable and beyond control.
She creates a dialogue with the materials, exploring her emotional connection to them, allowing space for multiple interpretations and outcomes, whist at the same time preserving their inherent qualities.
Exhibition & Press
Group Exhibitions
2019 — ‘GOATS et cetera’, INTOTO Gallery space, Nicosia, CY
2023 — “Gathering”, Arch Gallery space, Athens, Greece
2025 — “This vessel is a shapeshifting beast: Lessons in plasticity ”, Film etc. space, Nicosia, Cyprus
Residencies
2022 — 5 week collaborative research and making residency, with printmaker Simone Philippou at ceramics and printmaking studio Sektor 30, Athens, Greece.