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Noula Diamantopoulos is a multidisciplinary artist working across a variety of mediums including performance, sculpture, mosaics, neon, printmaking, painting and encaustics.
Much of Noula’s work explores new ways of making, seeing and understanding both art and the world. As an artist, practicing psychotherapist, and holistic coach, she constantly strives to create work that captures and expresses those universal feelings and emotions which cannot be named or described, but are an essential part of the human condition.
Her practice explores the life force and the whole ‘idea of us’ through her art.
Noula has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries throughout Australia. Her work can be found in significant private collections both within Australia and internationally.

LATEST EXHIBITIONS
'Quest' Sydney Contemporary
September 2024
Coming back for her second representation at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair - Noula Diamantopoulos with Artereal Gallery, presents endurance performance alongside new neon and video work.
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s premier art fair, with the largest and most diverse gathering of contemporary art galleries in the region. Staged at Carriageworks, Australia’s striking multi- arts venue, the Fair welcomes over 80 galleries from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and around the world. Billed as one of the most celebrated events on Australia’s cultural calendar, Sydney Contemporary has established itself as a must-attend art event and the perfect place to discover and collect modern and contemporary art.


The Angels, Moonah Arts Centre, TA
The Angels series emerges as a captivating fusion of mosaic and encaustic techniques, born from a unique collaboration between artists Sue Leitch and Noula Diamantopoulos. Each work in this series begins with the touch of one artist, who initiates the creative journey through mosaic or encaustic. The process is deeply interactive, with the materials guiding the artists’ responses and shaping the final form of each angel. Every angel in this collection is a distinct entity, embodying a diverse array of elements within both the mosaics and encaustic layers.
The series showcases a rich spectrum of color compositions and settings, with each piece incorporating materials such as natural stone, wire, beads, glass, and semi-precious stones. This collaboration results in a collection where each angel stands as a unique testament to the harmonious interplay of materials and artistic vision.
The Angels, Encausic Mosaic, 2024

I Belong, Neon Installation + Acrylic on Canvas, October 2, 2019
"I, Belong" Artereal Gallery
I, belong is a collaborative exhibition between Sydney-based artist and psychotherapist Noula Diamantopoulos and Bangkok-based American artist Douglas Diaz. Having first met in 2018 when they both exhibited as part of a group exhibition at Artereal, Diaz and Diamantopoulos have since formed a rare friendship and entered into an expansive dialogue over email, skype and Instagram which has allowed them to explore the overlap between their artistic practices. Grounded in the idea of belonging, their exhibition presents a selection of paintings by Diaz alongside light-based text works by Diamantopoulos, all of which have sprung from a series of mindful and transformative conversations between the two artists on life and art.
"Creating this series of works and collaborating with Douglas has been a process of endless questioning.
A stream of questions and transformative realisations.
What does it mean to belong? Belonging is about us belonging to ourselves and having the courage to invite others in. Their response is their response. We stay authentic. Therein lies the rub – what does authentic mean?
The answer lies in humbleness. I am me. With all my mess and oddness I stand in the feet of me and in that moment I am received authentically. You cannot fail if you are authentic.
AGAPE
Through a series of cryptic neon artworks, Noula employs the poetry of the Greek language to explore one of art history’s most enduring and universal themes – love. Continuing the dialogue launched in her collaborative work with Two Good Co, American Express and Deliveroo - “Love Shouldn’t Hurt” - Agape (Greek for the highest form of love) is a series of poetic neon works, with myriad of hidden symbols and personal meanings exploring the power of love, in all its forms and guises. It asks us to explore what it really means to love, “how to be love”, and like all of her work, challenges us to contemplate and question how we define love.
"Agape is a forceful statement, in relation to both domestic violence and in the broader context of all relationships. For when we do hurt each other, whether by our words or our deeds, we are often too quick to accept this as being inevitable. We refer to the ‘ups and downs’ of love; We accept the idea that love is complex and not always easy; There is a school of thought which sees pain as being inextricably linked to love and unavoidable; To me this is inherently wrong. Love shouldn’t hurt. Only when the hurt is unintentional can it be accepted. The accident is the exception.”

Agape, Neon Installation Collection, November 29, 2017
Art allows us to start conversations about tightly held beliefs and topics, challenging us to shift our perspective. It is only when we see the shared nature of life experience and emotion, that we can release our own shame and more through empathy, understanding forgiveness.
Neon Installation, Sydney, Nov. 2017
AGAPE - CONTINUED
"The artist, compelled to capture the state of love in which she found herself, has created a work which represents her own understanding of ‘agape’. Looking at the lines and marks translated into neon, there are multiple images which can seemingly be glimpsed within the work. The muscles and arteries of a human heart. The double helix of the DNA sequence. Love is in our blood and in our bodies and in our very nature. This final work is an abstract representation of the embodiment of love."
Rhianna Walcott
Curator




A collaborative project with Two Good Co, American Express and Deliveroo, this large-scale mural comprised of 20,000 jar lids, is symbolic of the 20,000 meals delivered by Deliveroo to victims of domestic violence. The image depicts the face of Felicity Cook, a domestic violence survivor.
LOVE SHOULDN'T HURT
Mixed Medium Mural, Sydney, Oct. 2017




Take a closer look at this collaborative project.
NUMINOS
Neon Installation, Sydney, Nov. 2016
Noula’s cryptic “Numinos” neon signs offer a quiet, introspective and oblique perspective on life. They seek to articulate the existential, interrogating relationships, the agony of indecision, and invite interpretation and internal conversation, seeking enlightenment: ‘how are you, you?’, ‘# oneness – It’s plural’, and the elliptical ‘what happens if you don’t?’. Here Noula creates a path to be set towards self-awareness and to uncovering what we really understand of the words we use.




COLOUR IN YOUR LIFE
TV Episode, Sydney, Nov. 2016
The Colour In Your Life TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual techniques with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist Graeme Stevenson. The series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. In this series, Noula shares her life experience as an accountant and career shift to an artists and therapists.
QUEST is an experimental performance work, in which the artist & participant engage in a silent conversation of questions (no answers) with each other.
QUEST
First performance art exhibition, Sydney, Dec. 2011





Art (continued)
Since 2011, Noula has embraced the medium of performance art as a conceptual and enigmatic vehicle for her continuing search for meaning, understanding and interpretation of the human psyche and the inner-self. Her performance work QUEST, is an interactive and collaborative social project focused on community involvement and engagement which draws on relational aesthetics and the artist’s background as a practicing psychotherapist. Participants are invited to engage in a silent conversation of questions only, in which the dialogue is handwritten and no talking is allowed. This unique process of Q&Q calls participants to be curious, to think outside of the box, and consider if the answers we seek can actually be revealed in the questions we ask.
Noula was invited to perform QUEST as part of the Director’s Choice program at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (2013 & 2015), at the Melbourne Art Fair (2014) and as part of Art Month Sydney (2016).
Over the last few years, Noula has been working primarily with text-based neon artworks. Her 2016 solo exhibition Numinous presented a series of cryptic neon signs which were quiet, introspective and oblique: articulating the existential, interrogating relationships, the agony of indecision, inviting interpretation and internal conversation, and seeking enlightenment.
Initial creative stirrings and the ideas behind Noula’s most recent solo exhibition Agape, were inspired by a 2017 public art commission, in which Noula was asked to create an enormous 60 sqm mosaic installation. Pieced together from over 20,000 jar lids, the commissioned portrait features the face of Felicity Cook, a survivor of domestic violence. Towering above the cityscape at 182 George Street in Sydney, the work forms part of the Love Shouldn’t Hurt campaign, drawing attention to domestic violence.
Continuing the dialogue which began with this public art project, Noula went on to create a series of neon works responding to this theme of love: exploring what it really means to love, “how to be love”, and like all of her work, challenging us to contemplate and question how we define love.
Since presenting Agape at Artereal Gallery in late 2017, Noula has gone on to receive a number of recent accolades. In 2018 she was as a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Womens Art Prize and was also announced as the winner of the 2018 International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation Media Award in the Audio/Visual category – an award given in recognition of her recent public art project Love shouldn’t hurt.
Awarded annually by the premier international organization for clinical teaching on complex trauma and dissociation, the ISSTD Media Award is given to an individual or organization for the best-written media (e.g., books, newspapers) and best audiovisual media (e.g., art, films, television, videos) that deal with dissociation and/or trauma. Previous winners of this prestigious award include Acclaimed American author Chuck Palahnuick (2005), Oprah Winfrey (2006) and the motion picture film Sapphire (2010).
Most recently, Noula was also the psychotherapist who supported participants on the BBC and ABC’s acclaimed TV series Space22. A powerful documentary which followed seven strangers, each with their own lived experience of mental ill health, Space22 explored the impact art and creativity can have on mental health, following seven individuals as they embarked on an ambitious experiment to test if the simple act of creativity could help heal invisible wounds. Supported by psychotherapist Noula Diamantopoulos, the participants were joined by three well-known Australian artists, Abdul Abdullah, Wendy Sharpe and Eddie Perfect. Observing the group from a distance, researchers from the Black Dog Institute measured the mental and social impact of each challenge.