Effie Halkidis has been living and working in the Netherlands since 1993. Arriving from Australia with a background in Glass studies Effie continued to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the Netherlands, since 1998 she has established her own studio in Amsterdam. Her work encompasses themes of communication, displacement and the construction of one's identity. She explores dialogue as a form of cultural exchange; the means to pass knowledge from generation to generation.  Mouths, hands and legs are placed in blocks in an attempt to reconstruct a person in parts. This incomplete person is a reference to displacement. Her work is made in crystal or optical glass, using the lost wax casting technique then cut and polished. Effie has exhibited extensively in Europe, and Australia Her work is in private and public collections in Europe, Australia and USA. Halkidis' creations bear on the principles that underlie the shaping of a specific form of society, to be precise; our own. We take the social mechanics of the modern world for granted and are hardly ever aware that they could be, and in some parts of the globe effectively are, totally different.

Education
1994 Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Glass Design, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle WA
1987-89 The Jam Factory Workshops, Adelaide, Australia
1987 Bachelor of Visual Arts, Riverina-Murray Institute, Waga Wagga, Australia

Selected Exhibitions
2006
Van Tetterode, Museum Jan van de Togt, Amstelveen, NL
De Nieuwe Garde, Jonge Gasten, Museum Jan van de Togt, Amstelveen, NL
Kunsthandel Courbois, Haarlem, NL
2005
Leon Salet Fine Art, Solo, Maastricht, NL
Gallery K Fine Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
Shell central office, Amsterdam, NL
Gallery Braggiotti, Amsterdam, NL

Selected Public Collections
Hugo van Vin glass collection, Amsterdam
Kaposvar Museum, Kaposvar, Hungary
Museum Ernsting Stifting, Germany
Jam Factory Collection, Adelaide, Australia