Loukia Thomopoulou

Loukia Thomopoulou has a background in business planning and IT and worked for years in the shipping Industry, in Greece and New York, as an in-house Manager in Information Technology and Management of Information Systems and as a consultant/ senior project manager in shipping software companies.

Over the past 13 years, she has been devoted exclusively to ceramics, having attended courses alongside the greatest ceramists in Greece in the making and the technology of ceramics. She has earned a certification in Art Curation and Gallery Management from the Sotheby’s Institute.

Loukia is an entrepreneur and founder of Sealed Earth Ceramics Studio and Gallery in Athens, offering tutoring and residencies for artists who want to enrich their knowledge and incorporate clay and ceramics into their work while organizing seminars on ceramic techniques and technology with recognized Greek and international artists. She organizes in situ exhibitions presenting the works of the artists she collaborates with, while in 2023, she opened a contemporary ceramics gallery to highlight the contemporary ceramic scene in Greece.

She is the founding member of Big Blue Dot, and in 2022, she successfully organized Big Blue Dot – Artists Residency and Exhibition in Ano Koufonisi.