Frixos Ioannides  

Frixos has been living and working in Australia since 1968.  He holds formal qualifications in Fine Art, Education, Media Studies, and Computing. For a number of years he taught art, media, and computer science in a secondary school. In the last few years of his teaching career, he taught computing, information technology and computer graphics at the Wantirna TAFE campus of Swinburne University .  

In the 1980s and early 90s Frixos’ main medium was screen printing. During that time he exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions in Melbourne . His last exhibition was in 2006 when he exhibited digital (computer-based) prints and drawings at the Greek-Australian Research and Learning Centre of RMIT.   

In October 2008 he exhibited a collection of digital prints and drawings at the Steps Gallery in Carlton Victoria . The exhibition was named The remains of a journey after the title of one of the pieces on show. Frixos draws inspiration from his immediate environment, from his travels to the Australian countryside and from his visits to his country of origin, Cyprus .  His themes include landscapes, interior scenes and imaginary compositions that he creates with the use of computer programs, or simply with pen and ink on paper. The computer based compositions often include a combination of photographic elements, digitised drawings and computer generated images. The combination of these elements creates a sense of abstract realism, a characteristic of many of his recent works.