About
Maria Bampali is an artist, born and raised in Athens, Greece, and now based in London. She received her MFA from Goldsmiths (2025) and her BFA with First-Class from Central Saint Martins (2021).
Her practice, primarily centred on painting and its expansive forms, explores subjects related to fragments of memory, notions of place and reimagining cultural heritage. Through a poetic mark-making, Bampali explores what is 'half-remembered' and what 'can be rebuilt anew' by moving delicately between semi-figuration and abstraction. Through recurrent calligraphic motifs and a colour palette that evokes a Mediterranean sensibility, her work blends the otherworldly and ephemeral, moving beyond past and present; the native and every day.
EDUCATION
2023 – 2025      MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2017 – 2021       BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins (1st Class Honours)



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025        Small Tiny Worlds, The Paddocks Gallery, Volos, Greece
                 Summer Day at Silian Gallery, London, UK 
                 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Laurie Grove Baths, London, UK
2024        Interim Show at Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Studios, Deptford, London, UK
                 Sit Inside My Uneasy Loveliness, AMP Gallery, London, UK
                 The Entranced Essence, RuptureXIBIT (+Studio), London, UK
                 OPEN CALL by The Phony Art Collective, Lock In Gallery, Brighton, UK   
2023        'I feel everything (Thalassa Reminds Me)', Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
                  Summer Salon Show, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
2022        I'm Falling Into..., IMT Gallery, curated by Hannah Li, London, UK
                 ME 2 U: A Collective Manifesto, Bow Open Show 2022, The Nunnery Gallery, curated by Baezianz, London, UK 
                 Bow Road Open Studios 2022, Bow Arts, London, UK 
2021       Do I Belond T(here)?, Harlesden High Street, curated by Maria Bampali & Tommy Xie, London, UK
2018       Who Are We Now, Livesey Exchange, London, UK 
2017       Re-Enactment of 'Les Interdictions' with Annette Messenger, The Street, CSM, London, UK
                Fem Fatal, The Concept London, London UK 
AWARDS
2023 - 2025      Goldsmiths Excellence Fee Waiver
2023                   Giorgis Laimos Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS 
2023      I Feel Everything (Thalassa reminds me), Self-published
2022      Some(where) In the Water, Self-published
2022     THE(OTHER), Self-published
2018      Selected Artist for ARTIT MAGAZINE, Issue no.1
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