About
Anthea Vayonitis is an emerging contemporary artist working across painting, dance, and meditative practice. Her work emerges through intuitive process, where gesture and flow operate like a dance—each mark informing the next to form a personal lexicon of movement, rhythm, and embodied perception. Through abstraction, she translates nature into fields of colour, sensation, and energetic presence, working within a flow state where painting becomes a channel for life force and perceptual exchange. Canvas forms the grounding surface of her practice, where textile yarn extends painting into space, generating a tactile, multi-dimensional field between surface, line, and form.
Bio
Anthea Vayonitis is a Melbourne-based emerging artist, graduating in Master of Fine Art at RMIT, Melbourne, Naarm. In 1995 Anthea completed a Bachelor of Fashion Design, RMIT, Melbourne, Naarm, alongside experienced training in Dance. Anthea works with painting through an intuitive process. Abstraction, colour and sensation are explored through the metaphysical energies in nature. Like a dance, one mark informs another and in creating a personal lexicon, energy is represented as life force. She has participated in several art workshops led by Australian artist Yvette Coppersmith. Anthea took part of an artist residency at Loaf Gallery, formerly known as Landslide, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, where is also had a studio visit with Australian artist, Gene A ‘Hern. Anthea has painted for Cathy Freeman and presented works for her private collection.
Recent Solo exhibitions include, In the silence between our heart beats, forty-five downstairs, Melbourne, 2026; The Star, the Sphere, Helios, Ra and the Golden Hour, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, 2025; Gaia’s Golden Hour, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2025; Connective Chromatic Energies and Sensations, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne, 2024; Chromatic Sensations Of Spaces Between Spaces, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. Group Exhibitions include, Gesture, Harlow Gallery, Melbourne, 2025; SMALL!, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, 2025; Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, 2025; Emerging Artists Summer Exhibition, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne, 2024. RMIT, Graduate Exhibition: Photo, Fine Art Hons, MFA, Art in Public Space, RMIT, Melbourne, 2023 and RMIT Fashion Graduate Exhibition, Great Hall, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Naarm, 1995. Anthea volunteered as part of the Hotel Hiromi Collective, creating spaces for visitors to rest, and connect with their feelings and spirit. Anthea worked with Hiromi Tango on the Children’s Sensorium project, Archive of Feeling, Sensation, Connection, Community, Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy, RMIT, Design Hub Gallery, 2022.
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EDUCATION
2021-2023, RMIT, Master of Fine Art in Painting
2020 Fitzroy Painting, Portraiture Workshop with Yvette Coppersmith
2019 NGV, Members sketching classes in the Gallery with Yvette Coppersmith
2019 CAE, Certificate IV in Visual Arts, Printmaking and Sculpture
2018 CAE, Certificate IV in Visual Arts, Painting and Artists and Exhibitions
1993-1995 RMIT, Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026, In the silence between our heart beats, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2025, The Star, the Sphere, Helios, Ra and the Golden Hour, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2025, Gaia’s Golden Hour, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2024, Connective Chromatic Energies and Sensations, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2024, Chromatic Sensations Of Spaces Between Spaces, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025, Gesture, Harlow Gallery, Melbourne
2025, Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2025, Incognito Art Show, Paddington, Sydney
2024, Emerging Artists Summer Exhibition, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne
2024, SMALL!, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2024, Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2024, Incognito Art Show, Paddington, Sydney
2023, 2022, The Cure, Guerrilla Gallery, Melbourne
2018, Outside In, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, CAE, Melbourne
1995, RMIT, Graduation Fashion Parade, NGV Great Hall, Melbourne
1995, RMIT, Flinders Street Station’s Degraves Lane underpass gallery, Group Exhibition, selection of Fashion Illustration, Melbourne
1994, RMIT, Graduation Fashion Parade, Dallas Brooks Hall, 2nd Year Costume shown, Melbourne
1992, Top Arts, St Kilda Town Hall, selection of diverse and accomplished works of art from VCE Art and Studio Art, Melbourne
1991, Impressive Prints, McClelland Gallery, prints by students from Secondary schools for Education Week, Melbourne
RESIDENCY
2025, July-August, Landslide, Wentworth Falls, Blue Mountains, NSW
STUDIO VISIT
2025, Gene A’Hern, Blue Mountains, NSW
VOLUNTEERING
2022, Archives of Feeling: Sensation, Connection, Community Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy, RMIT Design Hub Gallery, worked with Hiromi Tango, Hotel Tango
PERFORMANCE DANCE
2023, Mikoko, Remuse Designs, Melbourne Fashion Week
2022, Mico 22, Remuse Designs, Melbourne Fashion Week
2022, Holla, Official Music Video, Royalty Noise
2021, Micologia III, Remuse Designs, Melbourne Fashion week
2019, Golden Plains Thirteen, Raw Humps, Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre
2019, Tempted, Official Music Video, 30/70
2018, Hub Show, Gilles Peterson + Swooping Duck + Mandarin Dreams, Acmi, Melbourne
Music Week
2015, Zoo Laneway Party, Section 8, Melbourne Music Week
MEDIA
1995 Article, Graduation Show, RMIT, Fashion Journal
1995 Article, Tongue-in-chic look at the trendsetters, Good Life, Herald Sun, Anthea Loucas
PUBLICATIONS
2022 ARCHIVES OF FEELING: Sensation, Connection, Community Trauma, Knowledge, Empathy, Exhibition Catalogue, RMIT Design Hub Gallery
TRAVEL
2022, LA, The Broad, Lacma, The Getty
2019, LA, The Broad, Moca, Oti Gallery, The Getty, Marciano Art Foundation, NY, Guggenheim, Whitney Museum, Met Museum
I acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay respect to Elders, past, present.