Government Gazette issue announcing the appointment: ΦΕΚ 872/Γ/20.09.2016

Associate Professor

Art and Technique of Fresco and Portable Icons 

Born in Thessaloniki in 1965. 

He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), specialising in Painting with a focus on Fresco and Portable Icons, Mosaic, and Scenography (2007). He also holds degrees from the Department of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens (2000), and from the Faculty of Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1990). Since 2007, he has taught Icon Painting and Mosaic at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Western Macedonia. In 2013, he was elected Assistant Professor in the field of Visual Arts with an emphasis on Ecclesiastical Arts in the same department.

In February 2016, he was elected Associate Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, specialising in Art and Technique of Fresco and Portable Icons. His research interests include the visual language of the Sacred across cultures, the oral and written transmission of visual arts education, and material and structural technologies in art. His works can be found on Mount Athos (wall paintings in the churches of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Panagia Tricherousa, and St. Nicholas Planas, Cell of Maroudas), at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem (large-scale mosaics at the Monastery of St. Gerasimos of the Jordan), as well as in churches and private collections in Greece and abroad. He has held four solo exhibitions and participated in eight group exhibitions. He is the author of two monographs: Glossary of the Interpretation of the Art of Painting by Dionysios of Fourna – Based on the “Selected Lexicon” by Papadopoulos-Kerameus, and The Use of Gold in Works of Art, published by Spanos–Bibliophilia, Athens, 2015.

Email: davramidis@asfa.gr