Crystal Award | Gallery Ring COLOUR Exhibition | December 2025
Proud to receive the Crystal Award for The Sweetness of Control in Gallery Ring’s COLOUR Exhibition 2025, with two more works honored as Finalists.
I am honored to share that my artwork The Sweetness of Control has been awarded the CRYSTAL AWARD in the COLOUR International Juried Exhibition by Gallery Ring (December 2025).
This distinction celebrates artworks that demonstrate clarity of vision, strong aesthetic cohesion, and compelling use of color. I am deeply grateful for this recognition among so many remarkable international submissions.
About the Awarded Artwork — The Sweetness of Control
The Sweetness of Control is a meditation on elegance as architecture and nostalgia as a quietly commanding force.
Balancing a richly embroidered umbrella adorned with vintage teacups, teapots, and golden spoons, the central figure becomes the embodiment of restraint veiled in ritual. Porcelain and gold hover around her like delicate weapons of etiquette—chosen, placed, and never accidental. Each object functions as both ornament and intention, transforming a familiar moment of tea into a stage of subtle dominance. The refined palette of vintage reds, warm golds, and porcelain blues evokes the ceremonial grace of tradition—where gentleness disguises precision, and tenderness masks control. In this surreal domestic theatre, there is no sugar—only the suggestion of sweetness. Tea time becomes less an indulgence and more a choreography of gesture, grace, and hidden power.
To serve is not to surrender—it is to orchestrate.
Additional Recognitions — COLOUR 2025
Two additional artworks from When Color Knows the Script were honored as Finalists in the same exhibition:
What Falls in Velvet Silence
Whispers and Voices
These distinctions further affirm the narrative, symbolic depth, and evolving international presence of the series.
Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet
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Crystal Artist of December 2025| Gallery Ring International Recognition
Honored to be named Crystal Artist of December 2025 by Gallery Ring for my artwork Between Yes and No, a piece exploring the quiet tension between choice, identity, and emotion.
In December 2025, I was honored with the title Crystal Artist of the Month by Gallery Ring for my artwork Between Yes and No, part of my series When Color Knows the Script. This distinction highlights artworks that demonstrate clarity of vision, strong conceptual presence, and refined artistic execution.
Between Yes and No explores the suspended moment before choice — where thought transforms into emotion and silence becomes decision. The work reflects the subtle tension between certainty and hesitation, revealing how identity takes shape in the quiet spaces between contrasting states.
This recognition includes a showcase in the official 3D Rotation Gallery on Gallery Ring’s homepage, as well as a dedicated Winners Video on their YouTube channel.
I am deeply grateful to Gallery Ring for this honor and for their continuous commitment to supporting the international artistic community with professionalism, integrity, and exceptional curation.
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Annita Apostolidou Platis
Visual Artist · Curator · Essayist · Fashion & Jewelry Designer · Poet
All images are protected by copyright.
© 2025 Annita Apostolidou Platis. All rights reserved.