Ianna Andreadis
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Ianna Andreadis (Greek: Γιάννα Ανδρεάδη; born 1960, Athens) is a Greek-origin artist and photographer who has created many books, published in France and Mexico, as well as international projects with worldwide participation. In 2004, she coordinated a digital photo project called The World Around a Flame/Olympic Truce 2004 that was exhibited in Athens during the Olympic Games that year. She is based in France.
Between 1978 and 1983, Andreadis studied art, painting and lithography at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. After travelling through East Africa with publisher Franck Bordas, she created a series of drawings and paintings inspired by these trips.
Pre-history, excavations
Later (1989–90) she studied pre-history in the Institute of Art and Archaeology and joined excavations and surveys in Vallée des Merveilles in the south of France. She has also travelled to pre-historic sites and caves in the Dordogne, in connection with this interest of hers.
Travelling to Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa in 1993-94, she also created a new series of landscapes, and worked on a number of lithographic limited edition albums, with Franck Bordas.
Paintings, art books
Her 1996-98 work includes a series of paintings of the sea. She has published a series of art books in African wax textile for children. By 2000, while still painting, she embarked on photo and book projects, and created (2003) paintings on the theatrical costumes for the play Titus Andronicus, directed by Simon Abkarian and presented in Chaillot National Theatre.
