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Biography
Angie Sotiropoulos is a Visual Storyteller & Artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. The land on which she is creating is Treaty 6 Territory and home to the many indigenous peoples who have been creating for generations before her. Angie is a multidisciplinary artist that started her career as a Props Artisan and Scenic Painter working in professional live theatre, opera, dance, events and in film and television. In her personal practice, she creates under the titles Society Of Curious Creatures, Dragonfly Book Press and Artwork By Angie Sotiropoulos.
Developing and growing personal creative projects has been her main focus for the last seven years. Drawn to working with a variety of media, her work is whimsical, dimensional and colourful. Her sculptural works are created under the banner of the Society of Curious Creatures. Nature, story and cute faces inhabit this world of curiosities. She enjoys painting with watercolour and ink on location as an Urban Sketcher and translating those works into larger studio projects like the Storefronts of YEG series. Most recently, her long time interest in bookmaking and pop ups has become the medium to merge her other creative projects with the creation of Dragonfly Book Press . Unique sketchbooks and notebooks along with weekly sketching prompts, are a means to encourage others to pursue a regular creative practice. Storytelling is at the heart of all of her work and becoming a bookbinder is helping her pursue her goals of turning her fanciful world of creatures into pop up and movable paper works.
She is a member of a number of professional organizations including CARFAC, the Sculptor’s Association of Alberta, the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild, IATSE Local 210, the International Urban Sketcher’s Edmonton chapter and the Movable Book Society. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Canada and the UK and she is an active member in the local art and craft market scene.
When not in the studio she enjoys travelling with her partner or can be found tending to her ever growing menagerie of plants.
Developing and growing personal creative projects has been her main focus for the last seven years. Drawn to working with a variety of media, her work is whimsical, dimensional and colourful. Her sculptural works are created under the banner of the Society of Curious Creatures. Nature, story and cute faces inhabit this world of curiosities. She enjoys painting with watercolour and ink on location as an Urban Sketcher and translating those works into larger studio projects like the Storefronts of YEG series. Most recently, her long time interest in bookmaking and pop ups has become the medium to merge her other creative projects with the creation of Dragonfly Book Press . Unique sketchbooks and notebooks along with weekly sketching prompts, are a means to encourage others to pursue a regular creative practice. Storytelling is at the heart of all of her work and becoming a bookbinder is helping her pursue her goals of turning her fanciful world of creatures into pop up and movable paper works.
She is a member of a number of professional organizations including CARFAC, the Sculptor’s Association of Alberta, the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild, IATSE Local 210, the International Urban Sketcher’s Edmonton chapter and the Movable Book Society. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Canada and the UK and she is an active member in the local art and craft market scene.
When not in the studio she enjoys travelling with her partner or can be found tending to her ever growing menagerie of plants.
Artist Statement
"My artwork is driven by the need to tell stories. Whether I'm creating sculptures of real or fictional creatures, making watercolour sketches/ paintings of buildings or gluing together an assortment of ephemera, text and paper to create dimensional or movable objects, all have a story that they are trying to tell you. I want to create work that is meant to be touched and engaged with physically. Picking up a sketchbook to draw, turning an object around in your hand or flipping and turning the pages of a mini storybook are all meant to create opportunities to engage and spark curiosity about individuals, communities or the natural world around us. We are all connected in one way or another and it's easy to lose sight of this in the noise of our day to day lives. I work in a variety of mediums as a way to provide a variety of potential moments where an individual might be able to take pause and find what these connections might be for them in the greater scheme of things. "
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