About Handy Queen

The Istanbul-based artist Handy Queen began her career primarily as a jewellery designer, but she has since expanded her practice to include painting and mixed media artworks. Handy Queen is best known for her street art and pop art style acrylic paintings on collages made with old newspapers, old magazines and found objects related to the subject. Handy Queen’s artworks have also taken on more current themes, such as the dependence on technology and social networks, fashion industry, female identities, celebrities in popular culture. Her work hinges on the idea that every artist should be a storyteller and art should leave you with a little smile. She says 'I am a painter. My goal is to create unique and high quality art that can get a spark in audience's head. My workshop is a place where I feel free and connected..."