Abbie Vickress

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Abbie [she/hers] is a graphic designer, researcher and facilitator exploring knowledge generation and distribution in public engagement and cultural spaces.

This critical approach manifests through printed design, exhibition design, curation, writing and facilitation of workshops and events. 

Abbie teaches and guest lectures widely at HE undergraduate and postgraduate level, and with museum learning departments.

A selection of work available below. Full portfolio on request.

CONTACT AT

hello[at]abbievickress.co.uk
[at]abbievickress

hello[at]imperfectindex.com
[at]imperfectindex

a.vickress[at]csm.arts.ac.uk
[at]csmgraphics

MEMBER OF

Museum Ethnographers Group [2025]

Carbon Literacy Project
Carbon Literate [2024]

Design Research Society
Member [2023]

Design History Society
Member [2023]

Museum Association
Member [2023]

Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Fellow [2019]

International Society of
Typographic Designers (ISTD)
Member [2012]

WORKING ON

imperfect index: conversations on
graphic design. [publication + event]
Collaboration with Laura Parke. 

INGA KAUGSAY (Inga Dwelling)
[publication + exhibits]
Collaboration with Inga AWAI
and Catalina Mejia Moreno, et al.

COLLABORATED WITH

Amnesty International
Being Human Festival
Bloomsbury Publishing
BT Archives
Camden Schools Art Biennale
Central Saint Martins (UAL)
Chisenhale Art Place
Citizens Assembly
Derailed Research Lab [residency]
Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Icarus Complex Magazine
Inga AWAI
Knowledge Quarter, Kings Cross
Lethaby Gallery, CSM
London Transport Museum
Mayor of London
MuseomixUK
National Gallery, UK
The Old Operating Theatre
Plastic Justice [collective]
The Postal Museum
Royal Academy of Arts, UK
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
Royal College of Art
State of Unsettlement [collective]
Studio Hyte
Thames & Hudson
Two Temple Place
V&A Museum

FUNDING FROM

Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [2024]

Research Publication Grant
Design History Society [2024]

Creativity in Action Fund
Central Saint Martins [2024]

CATE Public-Community
Engagement and Knowledge Exchange
Univesity of the West of England [2023, 2024, 2025]

Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP)
Art Council England [2022–23] 

Strategic Partnership programme
of the European Union [2020–22]

Creative Industries Fund NL [2019]

Gane Trust [2011]

WRITTEN FOR

Integration of Theory and Practice in Design Education
Plastic Justice a Teachers’ Guide, 2022.

Creative Education Business.
Revista Arta. #12 British Art, 2014.

STUDYING AT

PhD in Pluralist Exhibition Design Method
Central Saint Martins [2023–present]
Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [2024]

STUDIED AT

Bristol Women’s Workshop [2022–23]
Funded by DYCP Art Council England

Distinction, PGCert Academic Practice
Central Saint Martins, London [2018—19]

Distinction, MA Visual Communication
Royal College of Art, London [2012—14]

First Class, BA (Hons) Graphic Design
UWE, Bristol [2009—12]  

TEACHING WITH

Senior Lecturer
MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins [2020—present]

TAUGHT WITH

Senior Lecturer,
BA Graphic Design
University of the West of England
[2021—2023]

External Tutor for BA Graphic Design
KABK, The Hague [2022]

Senior Lecturer in Experience and Environment
BA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins [2017—21
Archive: [at]ee_csm

Lecturer, MA Visual Communication
Royal College of Art [2014 —17]

Lecturer, Contextual Studies
BA Graphic Design
Ravensbourne [2017]

Lecturer, BA Graphic Arts
Bucks New University [2015—17]

Lecturer, Art, Media & Design
Richmond University [2014 —15]

SPOKEN AT

[2025] imperfect index
Non Western Graphic Design Histories
– Honouring diverse legacies,
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)

[2024]
Rehearsing Exhibition Design
Visual Dichotomies,
Spring PhD Sympoisum, CSM

[2023]
imperfect index:  intersectional feminist
frameworks in the graphic design classroom
Which Futures for the History of Design?
AIS/Design: Roots of Expanded Design
Milano Politecnico
Collaboration with Laura Parke.

The Curiosity Cabinet as a Post-Colonial
Exhibition Design Practice 
Displaying Design: History,
Criticism and Curatorial Discourse
Design History Society,
Matosinhos College of Art and Design.
Collaboration with Dr Sakis Kyratzis.

Audio Guides: inclusive performance or radical change?  
Care-ful Museums,
Nottingham Trent University.

Queering the Archive Drawer
On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality
University of Brighton.

Talking Objects
Museum without Walls,
Winchester School of Art.

[2022]
Plastic Justice
ELIA Biennial,
Beyond the Binary CSM
SKD Art International Beijing
ELIA Amsterdam 

Climate Classroom
ELIA Biennial Uni Arts Helsinki
Vilnius Academy of Arts

Performing Methodologies
CSM, UAL  

[2019]
Classroom, GDEN, Bristol
Disrupting Simplicity, GDEN, Bristol
Conversation Currency, State of Unsettlement

[2018]
Design Residencies, CCW, UAL

[2017]
Design Research, RCA, London
Graphic Activism, CSM, UAL

[2015] 
Design Activism, V&A Museum