by Yanni Pounartzis.

Cascade No. 1, 110 x 110 cm, oil on polycotton.

Yanni Pounartzis is a Canberra-based artist working in a range of artistic disciplines. His vibrant paintings and inventive public installations attract a wide audience including prominent galleries, private collectors and city councils.

Yanni is best known for his vivid, hard-edge oil paintings and ‘Big Swoop’, a magpie sculpture feeding on a chip, in Canberra’s city centre. Big Swoop is a Canberra and national icon and is now included in the list of ‘Aussie Big Things’. On the 4th September 2023, The Royal Australian Mint and Australia Post released a Big Swoop collectible coin and stamp, sold nationally and in circulation as legal currency.

As a visual artist, Yanni has exhibited in many reputable galleries and his paintings are held in private collections around the world, including New York, London, Berlin, Sydney and Melbourne.

Yanni works from his studio in Canberra.