Miriam McConnon Papageorgiou

Miriam McConnon - Papageorgiou returns to Apocalypse Gallery in Nicosia to present her new work entitled “The Persistence of Memory”

Miriam Mc Connon Papageorgiou was born in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland in 1999 with a B.A in Fine Art Painting. In 2000 she completed a post-graduate diploma at the Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus. It was then that she met her husband, a Cypriot from Paphos and they went to live in Ireland from the following three years.

In Ireland Miriam worked in a well known studio called The Phoenix studio, with twenty other artists from around the world. She exhibited in galleries in Ireland and in London, England. She also worked as a tutor for the National gallery of Ireland, teaching painting and drawing. She also became involved in many community arts projects, teaching art in inner city communities, nursing homes for the elderly and a clinic for recovering drug addicts.

In 2003 she returned to Cyprus me her husband and began working at a studio in Paphos. She has exhibited in Larnaca, Limassol, Nicosia and Paphos. Recently she also had group exhibitions in Ireland, New York and London. She has had three solo exhibitions, one in may 2008 at The Lemon Street gallery and one in 2008 and 2010 at The Apocalypse gallery, Nicosia..

Miriam’s paintings can be found in public and private collections in Ireland, Australia, USA, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, UK and Cyprus.

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