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.

Portfolio available on request.

CONTACT AT

abbievickress[at]gmail.com
[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

UAL x British School at Athens:
2026 Arts Researcher in Residence

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

COLLABORATED WITH

Amnesty International
Being Human Festival
Bloomsbury
British School at Athens [residency]
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 (Central Saint Martins)
London Transport Museum
Mayor of London
MuseomixUK
National Gallery, UK
The Old Operating Theatre
Plastic Justice [collective]
The Postal Museum, UK
Royal Academy of Arts, UK
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
Royal College of Art, UK
State of Unsettlement [collective]
Studio Hyte
Thames & Hudson
Two Temple Place
V&A Museum

FUNDING FROM

UAL x British School at Athens,
Residency Bursary [2026]

Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [2024–30]

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 Methods: Anti-colonial graphic design in Britishe ethnographic museums.
Central Saint Martins [2023–present]
Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [2024–2032]

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

MA Communicating Complexity
Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins [2025]

TAUGHT WITH

Senior Lecturer
MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins [2020–2025]

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

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]

SPOKEN AT

[2025] Publishing Practices:
Design Reframed, Falmouth University

[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, UAL

[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 Decolonial
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, UAL
+ SKD Art International Beijing
+ ELIA Amsterdam

Climate Classroom:
ELIA Biennial Uni Arts Helsinki
+ Vilnius Academy of Arts

Performing Methodologies: CSM, UAL  

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

[2018]
Design Residencies: CCW, UAL

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

[2015] 
Design Activism:  V&A Museum