"distinctive and UNIQUE"
Dangerosa is a London-based, British contemporary artist. Born in Yorkshire with mixed Greek-Cypriot and Baltic heritage, she was immersed from an early age in the complexities of different cultures in a working-class town, against a backdrop of contrasting industrial and rural landscapes. The eccentricities of this formative environment – coupled with the pop culture of the ‘80s and ‘90s – shaped a punk DIY approach to her art practice, and surreal narratives.
Dangerosa's distinctive and unique work rebuffs the ordinary and the mundane. One of the central themes of her artistic practice is the paradox of fantasy and reality colliding in a single space and the emotions that emerge when something imagined becomes tangible. It is a reflection of the world she inhabits through a dreamlike filter, punctuated with intrusive thoughts and fantasies that both fascinate and repulse. She constructs scenes where the boundary between the real and imagined begin to dissolve. The experience can be simultaneously unsettling, humorous, erotic, horrifying and wonderful.
After completing a degree with first class honours in Fine Art for Design at Batley School of Art, she began a career as a specialist painter to a number of high-profile artists including Sir Michael Craig-Martin, Damien Hirst, The Connor Brothers and Lakwena, mastering a range of techniques while continuing to create her own distinctive style.
Her art spans music, charity projects, fashion events, numerous solo and group exhibitions, features in publications and bespoke pieces for private collectors.