Tami Zafeiropoulou

Tami (b. 1994) is an multidisciplinary artist with a background in design and education, and an MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, to be completed in August 2026. Her practice has primarily employed clay, alongside other media, as a means to address personal and collective events, traumas, pleasures, restrained emotions, and existential questioning. Over the past year, she has expanded her practice into performative media, exploring sound in its physicality and its capacity to carry both voice and vibration as forces emerging from within. She also works with video as a medium, enabling alternative perceptions of the human gaze and of time itself. Sound, breath, touch, and vision, often approached through meditative or ritualistic processes, form the core of her methodology.
 
Her work asks how darkness, anger, and sadness, as well as light, desire, and pleasure, can coexist, and it does so through an autoethnographic lens. Her practice examines how balance is imagined, idealised, or instrumentalised within the oxymoronic structures of life, and how artistic practices can function therapeutically to engage inner voices, feelings of rejection or abandonment, and emotional states or behavioural patterns that can become overwhelming.
 
Her practice risks confronting trauma directly and bearing the consequences of making it visible. Her sculptures, performances and paintings operate as responses that seek affinities between autonomous and sociopolitical trajectories from antiquity to the present.