Island of Holy Pools - Screenprint
A print dedicated to the contradictions of water management in Cyprus. An island of pools in an island of water stress.
Nicolas Mouros
MA Fine Art: Printmaking 2025
Printed Geographies is an attempt to creatively approach socio-ecological relationships and the commons. I'm particularly interested in how printmaking can serve as a medium for social transformation and reimagination - how it can politicise and contextualise environmental change.
I'm conscientious objector, with a background in Human Geography, focusing on the political ecology of water in divided Cyprus. These experiences shape my practice and positionality to artmaking. I use printmaking to expose the entanglements of neoliberalism and militarisation in the abstraction of water bodies in Cyprus.
My work stems from photographic material and develops through screenprinting, risograph and letterpress. I'm drawn to blind embossing, where shadows and textures can signify the affective qualities of ecology.
This year I organised “Printing the Commons”, a collaborative screenprinting project with The Bristol Commons to disrupt neoliberal narratives. I also had the joy of completing a 4-month internship at Spike Print Studio.
Neoliberal Nature - Screenprint & Blind Embossing
Golf courses are classified under agriculture legislation in the Republic of Cyprus. They are depicted as a profitable ‘crop’ rather than a sport or tourist leisure.
Hegemonic Waters - Screenprint
Water as a symbol of progress and a protagonist to the transformation of an ‘underdeveloped’ postcolonial Cyprus into a modernist state.
Not a Drop of Water to the North - Screenprint & Blind Embossing
Elevation map with obstructed water bodies from reaching the sea and Northern Cyprus.
Unthinkable Times - Letterpress
Quote by social ecologist Murray Bookchin. For me, the impossible refers to the imaginaries that shape our behaviours and the material relationships that shape our world. The unthinkable already exists in Palestine and the Mediterranean Sea.
Water Scarcity - Offset Lithography & Screenprint
Water scarcity as a capitalist myth created to blame low precipitation rather than water mismanagement and extractivist water practices.
