Stass Paraskos: A Celebration: at Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Michael Paraskos was born in Leeds in the north of England, and his first job, after leaving the misery of a secondary modern school for remedial education, was as an apprentice butcher's boy. As well as being an occasional contributor of articles to newspapers and magazines, including The Spectator and Art Review, and he is even more occasionally a contributor to radio and television programmes. He has reviewed exhibitions for Front Row on BBC Radio 4, and appeared on Ραδιοφωνικό Ίδρυμα Κύπρου, BFBS, BBC Radio Wales and BBC North, discussing topics ranging from modern art in the middle east to Yorkshire nationalism. He is author of the novel 'In Search of Sixpence', published by Friction Fiction in 2016, and his second novel, called 'Rabbitman', is due to be published by Friction Fiction in 2017.

Born into a peasant family in Cyprus in 1933, Paraskos went to England to work as a waiter in a Greek restaurant. There he met a group of artists from Leeds College of Art who persuaded him to join their college. Paraskos never looked back, going on to be a celebrated artist and educator. He became Head of Painting at the University for Creative Arts, and founder of the Cyprus College of Art, the first art college in his homeland of Cyprus. This book places Paraskos in context and deals with major events in his life, including the notorious trial in Leeds, in 1966, when he was prosecuted for obscenity following an exhibition of his paintings. He remains to this day the only Cypriot artist to have work in London's Tate Gallery.