abbie vickress
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 an facilitation of workshops and events.
Abbie teaches and guest lectures widely at HE undergraduate and postgraduate level, and with museum learning departments.
Portfolio available here.
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CONTACT AT
abbievickress[at]gmail.com
[at]abbievickress
hello[at]imperfectindex.com
[at]imperfectindex
a.vickress[at]csm.arts.ac.uk
[at]csmgraphics
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MEMBER OF
Museum Ethnographers Group [2025]
Carbon Literacy Project [2024]
Design Research Society [2023]
Design History Society [2023]
Museum Association [2023]
Higher Education Academy (FHEA) [2019]
International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) [2012]
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WORKING ON
Camden Schools Art Biennale 2026.
[exhibition] Collaboration with Martin McGrath, Leonidas Liolios, Mia Cormack and Abigail Hunt.
imperfect index: conversations on graphic design. [publication + event] Collaboration with Laura Parke.
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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
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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, UWE [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]
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RESIDENT AT
British School at Athens: 2026 Arts Researcher in Residence.
Derailed Research Lab: Trans-siberian Railway, Artist in Residence 2016.
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WRITTEN FOR
Integration of Theory and Practice in Design Education in Plastic Justice a Teachers’ Guide, 2022.
Creative Education Business in Revista Arta. #12 British Art, 2014.
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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–present]
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STUDIED AT
Distinction, PGCert Academic Practice at Central Saint Martins [2018–19]
Distinction, MA Visual Communication at Royal College of Art [2012–14]
First Class, BA (Hons) Graphic Design at University of the West of England [2009–12]
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TEACHING WITH
MA Communicating Complexity Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins [2025]~
TAUGHT WITH
Senior Lecturer, MA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins [2020–2025]Senior Lecturer, BA Graphic Design at University of the West of England [2021–2023]
Senior Lecturer in Experience and Environment, BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins [2017–21
Lecturer, MA Visual Communicatio at Royal College of Art [2014–17]
Lecturer in Contextual Studie, BA Graphic Desig at Ravensbourne [2017]
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SPOKEN ABOUT
[2026]
Reimagining the Narrative(s) of Contested Cultural Artefacts, at the British School at Athens.
[2025]
Publishing Practices at Design Reframed, Falmouth University
imperfect index at Non Western Graphic Design Histories – Honouring diverse legacies, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
[2024]
Rehearsing Exhibition Design at Visual Dichotomies, Central Saint Martins
[2023]
imperfect index: intersectional feminist frameworks in the graphic design classroom at 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 at 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
at Care-ful Museums, Nottingham Trent University
Queering the Archive Drawer
at On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality, University of Brighton
Talking Object at Museum Without Walls, Winchester School of Art
[2022]
Plastic Justice at ELIA Biennial + Beyond the Binary, Central Saint Martins + SKD Art International Beijing + ELIA Amsterdam
Climate Classroom at ELIA Biennial Uni Arts Helsinki + Vilnius Academy of Arts
Performing Methodologies at Lethby Gallery, Central Saint Martins
[2019]
Classroom at Graphic Design Educators Network, University of the West of England
Disrupting Simplicity at Graphic Design Educators Network, University of the West of England
Conversation Currency at State of Unsettlement
[2018]
Design Residencies at University of the Arts London
[2017]
Design Research at Royal College of Art
Graphic Activism at Central Saint Martins
[2015]
Design Activism at the V&A Museum
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