“Critical Acclaim”
“Your universe is mastered, as are your compositions... your aesthetic is strong and your paintings reflect certain periods of art history while remaining entirely contemporary.”
– Quentin Métayer, Art Consultant (ex-Galerie Perrotin)"VIGILANTE centres on a foul-mouthed anti-hero... a character reminiscent of Mr Hyde by Edinburgh’s Robert Louis Stevenson — created by a local artist with a distinctive voice."
— Artmag, 2025
“Auctioned by Natasha Raskin Sharp – renowned BBC presenter and auctioneer at Lyon & Turnbull.”
"We are delighted to welcome Constantine.. as our Artist in Residence. His unique perspective and thought-provoking work will captivate our guests and enrich Edinburgh’s vibrant creative community. This residency offers a valuable opportunity to expand his ‘Vigilante’ series and engage with visitors, highlighting Virgin Hotels Edinburgh’s commitment to supporting local artists."
— Mafalda Albuquerque, General Manager, Virgin Hotels Edinburgh“Virgin Hotels Edinburgh (Residency Partner, 2025)”
Artist’s Bio:
Constantine.. (b. Athens, Greece) is a contemporary artist based in Edinburgh whose multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, printmaking, and public intervention. At the centre of his work is a recurring self-figure that evolves across time and environment, operating as a structural presence within constructed mythic and psychological arenas.
Originally drawn to art from a young age, Constantine.. left formal academic study to pursue an independent and self-directed practice. Over the past years, he has developed a distinctive visual language characterised by saturated yet controlled palettes, deliberate compositional cropping, and the progressive reduction of form toward symbolic clarity.
Across interconnected bodies of work — including Mythology, Vigilante, Fluxus, and other thematic cycles — the same protagonist appears within shifting environments. Rather than illustrating inherited narratives, Constantine.. constructs spaces in which human and divine characteristics collapse into one another. The self is neither confession nor caricature, but an active force navigating archetypal tensions.
His Fluxus series attracted critical attention, including commentary from a former Perrotin gallerist, marking a notable moment of external recognition within his evolving practice.
Constantine.. has exhibited internationally and was selected as Artist in Residence at Virgin Hotels Edinburgh in 2025. His interventions extend the painterly logic into lived space, reinforcing his interest in presence, persona, and myth as durational structure.
Artist Statement – Constantine..
My practice centres on a recurring self-figure that moves through constructed psychological and mythic environments.
Each body of work isolates a distinct force within human behaviour — pride, contradiction, justice, rhythm, shadow — but the protagonist remains constant. The figure is not autobiography in the traditional sense; it is an externalised presence that absorbs its time and surroundings, evolving formally and psychologically across works.
Over time, the imagery has become increasingly compressed. Features are reduced. Faces are cropped. Symbolic elements are distilled toward clarity. This reduction is intentional: the aim is not description, but concentration. Simplicity carries responsibility.
Myth, in my work, is not historical narrative. It is a structural device for examining recurring human tensions. Gods and humans share behavioural patterns; the self moves between them.
Titles remain open-ended, functioning not as explanation but as tilt — small disruptions that destabilise fixed interpretation. Meaning is not prescribed. It accumulates through encounter.
The work is less about telling stories and more about staging arenas in which psychological force becomes visible.
Experience
I have had the privilege of collaborating with diverse artists from various creative disciplines, including visual artists, musicians, videographers/directors, writers, poets, and models. My artistic expertise knows no boundaries, as I've been fortunate to work with prominent brands in the Alcohol and Hospitality industry, leaving my artistic imprint on numerous public spaces and residential buildings throughout Edinburgh with striking public art installations.
Over the course of my career, I've undertaken a wide range of commissions, spanning poster design, tattoo artistry, music vinyl covers and labels, as well as numerous private commissions and book illustrations. Some of my notable clients include Gin No 3, Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop (Edinburgh), Typewronger Bookshop (Edinburgh), and The Book Art Bookshop (London).
I've had the honour of presenting numerous solo projects on a global scale and participating in various group shows and auctions. In addition to my artistic endeavours, I've ventured into writing and publishing. I am the author and publisher of several art books, including "Jazz Mafia Project," "Jazz Mafia Project Vol 2," "Into the Dark and the Light of the Trojan Moon," "Myth and or Mythology.. EXT Version," and the workshop/manual book "Printmaking Made Simple by Constantine..," among many others.
My latest and exciting endeavour is Triptych Magazine, a project I co-founded with Emily-Rose James, which reflects our commitment to fostering artistic dialogue and exploration of the arts and well-being in our city and beyond, as well as the co-founded the project “Poets of the Night”, as radically successful night of well-selected Poets and Theatre Performers that runs on a regular basis in Edinburgh.
One of my latest achievements is to become a Board Member of the Healy Arts Charity.
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Interview
Interview with Constantine.. after his Collaborative Art Show ‘Pairs in Mind’. Aberdeen 2017