https://abbievickress.co.uk Abbie Vickress Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:31:37 +0000 https://abbievickress.co.uk en https://abbievickress.co.uk/Home Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:31:37 +0000 Abbie Vickress https://abbievickress.co.uk/Home abbie vickressAbbie [she/they] 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 here. ~CONTACT AT abbievickress[at]gmail.com[at]abbievickresshello[at]imperfectindex.com [at]imperfectindex a.vickress[at]csm.arts.ac.uk[at]csmgraphics ~ MEMBER OFMuseum 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]~ WORKING ONimperfect index: conversations on graphic design. [co-founder, editor, designer] Collaboration with Laura Parke. Ecological Citizen(s) Network, Royal College of Art [designer]Veiling Unveiling: The Politics of the Unseen in Design, University of the Arts London and Design History Society [designer] ~COLLABORATED WITH Amnesty International Being Human FestivalBloomsbury British School at Athens [residency]BT ArchivesCamden Schools Art Biennale Central Saint Martins (UAL) Chisenhale Art PlaceCitizens AssemblyDerailed Research Lab [residency]Helen Hamlyn Centre for DesignIcarus Complex Magazine Inga AWAI Knowledge Quarter, Kings Cross Lethaby Gallery (Central Saint Martins)London Transport MuseumMayor of LondonMuseomixUKNational Gallery, UKThe Old Operating Theatre Plastic Justice [collective]The Postal Museum, UKRoyal Academy of Arts, UK Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)Royal College of Art, UKState of Unsettlement [collective] Studio HyteThames & Hudson Two Temple PlaceV&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, 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] ~ RESIDENT AT British School at Athens: 2026 Arts Researcher in Residence. Derailed Research Lab: Trans-Siberian Railway, Artist in Residence 2016. ~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. ~ STUDYING AT PhD in Pluralist Exhibition Design Methods: Anti-colonial graphic design in British ethnographic museums. Central Saint Martins [2023–present] Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [2024–present] ~ 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]   ~ TEACHING WITH MA Communicating Complexity:  Central Saint Martins [2025–ongoing]BA Graphic Design Communication: Chelsea College of Art [2026] ~ TAUGHT WITHSenior 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 [2017–21Lecturer, MA Visual Communication:  Royal College of Art [2014–17]Lecturer in Contextual Studies, BA Graphic Design: Ravensbourne University London [2017] ~ SPOKEN ABOUT[2026] Designing for Absence, at Ephemeral Encounters, Design History Society (DHS) 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 changeat Care-ful Museums, Nottingham Trent University Queering the Archive Drawerat 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 Lethaby 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 ~