As part of the Art in Practice alumni exhibition, we spoke to artist Mary Savva about her practice and learned more about her ways of working – what inspires her, what tips she has for new graduates and artists, and how studying at UH has helped her career.
Mary Savva
Mary Savva is a Cypriot figurative painter living and working in London. Her recent work explores ideas of home, culture and identity. The artist combines imagery that has a connection to where she grew up and her current place of work, London, in an attempt to re-appropriate them in a wider context. By displacing images from their original source, they become a symbol of the artist herself acting as self-portraits.
Savva graduated with BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the 91¿´Æ¬ in 2014, before going on to study MA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. In 2018 she completed a 3-month residency at Cheongju Art Studio in South Korea. Savva has exhibited extensively, most recently at The Auction Collective, London and Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus.