Biographies
Siotropou – Georgiou Nota
Nota Siotropou – Georgiou (wife of the sculptor and ceramicist G. Georgiou), was born in Athens in 1932.
She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts on a scholarship granted by the State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) in the Engraving Workshop of Jean Kefalinos and continued her studies in Florence on a scholarship granted by the University of Athens. She held her first solo exhibition in Madrid (1961) and then held more solo exhibitions in Venice (1984), in Riva del Garda, in Athens and in Thessaloniki. She also took part in several group exhibitions, among others, in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Brazil. She participated in the Pan-Hellenic exhibitions (1957, 1963, 1965 and 1967), and in major international events such as the Salon de Grabado in Madrid (1960), the Youth Biennale in Paris (1961), the Alexandria Biennale (1961, 1965, 1967), the Ljubljana Biennale (1963), the Tokyo Biennale (1964), the Liège Biennale (1969), etc. Some of her works are found in the National Gallery, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Hellenic Ministry of Education, the Museo della Rocca – Riva in Italy, and in many private collections in Greece, Europe, America, and Australia. Nota Siotropou died in a car accident in 2014.