Ioustini
Drakoulakou
(she)
Thessaloniki, Greece
︎and ... anywhere
Member of the Chamber Of Fine Arts Of Greece (EETE)
+ Member of the International Association of Art (IAA)
Ioustini Drakoulakou was born in 1989 in Thessaloniki, Greece
where she currently lives and works as an independent artist.
Her work has been presented in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and it is shortlisted for awards and exhibitions.
EDUCATION
2019 Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKMA in Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts,
Grade: Distinction
Dissertation: “Losing Turquoise” Photography Project,
“I am a proccess” Film, “Visualised thoughts” Animation
2019 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
MSc in Applied & Environmental Geology,
Specialisation: Mineral Resources - Environment, Grade: Merit
Dissertation: “Mineralogical, mineral chemistry and fasmatoscopic (FTIR) study of the turquoise occurrence in the Vathi area, Kilkis, Macedonia, Greece.” .
2018 Stereosis School of Photography, Thessaloniki, GR
Certificate in Photography (2015 – 2018)
Final Photography Project : “Inertia”
2014 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Degree in Geology, Direction: Environmental Geography, Grade: 2:1 Thesis: “Gemstones: characteristics and properties”
COLLABORATIONS (selected)
05.2022 - present
Member & IG Creative Content Editor
L.Loves Artist’s Books,
Lia’s Nalbantidou initiative
2020-present
Assistant of the Artist - Photographer
Lia Nalbantidou
In September 2020 the collaborative project (Lia Nalbantidou & Ioustini Drakoulakou)
Resilience: as a makeshift herbarium or e.g. how to teach a pine tree received a Project Development Grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports.
07.2022
Teaching Assistant for Christina Dimitriadis’ course, Living Environments and Self-awareness, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, AT
&
08.2021 Teaching Assistant for Christina Dimitriadis’ course Social Environment and Self-Image, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg AT
2021 - 2024
Manager digital content Editor for Venetia Kapernekas’ VenetiaInitiatives New York (remotely)
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice develops through photography, moving image, sound, installation, and field research. With a background in Applied & Environmental Geology and Photography & Electronic Arts, I approach image-making as a way of working through transformation, instability, and layered perception.
Across different projects, I return to situations where bodies, landscapes, materials, and systems of interpretation resist fixed definition. I am interested in how multiple readings can coexist simultaneously (scientific, emotional, cultural, and symbolic) without resolving into a single meaning.
My work often begins through observation, research, and sustained engagement with places, materials, and photographic processes before the final form becomes clear. Rather than applying a fixed methodology, each project develops its own structure and visual language through the process itself.
Working across analogue and digital processes, I use photography not simply as documentation, but as a way of remaining close to uncertainty, fragmentation, and continuous transformation. Image, installation, and material elements function as interconnected spaces where perception remains open and unstable.
Please excuse any design orientation ‘issues’
due to the lefthandness of mine