Anna Dimitriou

Anna Dimitriou was born in Athens in 1972.
She studied film direction in the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos.
She then went on to work in various television productions as well as expanding her studies in theatre direction and journalism. Dimitriou is self-taught in the art of collage. She first started practicing collage-making, and more specifically digital collage, in 2006 and later on started practicing analog collage. As a collage artist she has taken part in many group and solo exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities in Greece. She has designed posters and magazine covers, she is involved in writing and goes by the name “Canndyblue”.
She has been seriously engaged with street art – especially murals – for the past five years, garnering much acclaim and achieving recognition in the process. She creates in public spaces and has been most known for her works in abandoned buildings of historic significance that she decorates with murals of the likes of Frida Kahlo, Greek performer Jimis Panousis and many others. She gets inspired mostly by the old world, particularly the first decades of the 20th century thus retaining a constant dialogue with the past. Her most ambitious street-art project as of yet is the “Xenia Hotels” initiative. Through that project, she has set the goal of reviving the Greek summers of her youth and to protest against the abandonment of our past.
Her art is playful, combining collages of vintage photos with oil painting techniques that are full of color. She mostly depicts women figures of the past while giving them a modern makeover. In her work one can find retro-romantic elements that are uplifting.
Anna’s imaginative art is truly at a crossroads of times past and times present!