Bedisa
2021
Sculpture made from clay, hessian, twine and metal.
Bedisa
2021
Sculpture made from clay, hessian, twine and metal.
Metal Mountains
2019
Clay, steel wire + oil paint.
Vickie Amiralis is a British/Greek artist currently living and working in Buckinghamshire, U.K. Amiralis works predominantly in sculpture and media arts as well as developing curatorial projects. Her work juxtaposes the natural and the industrial whilst investigating human relationships with materials and landscapes. Amiralis has a background of curating and collaborating with artists and musicians on international projects and publications. In 2023 she launched an independent studio A Dozen Figs, aiming to bring artists together through events and residencies. Since 2020, Amiralis has been part of the Global Advisory Board for charity In Place of War.
Contact
Email: v.amiralis@gmail.com
Instagram: @vickieamiralis
Exhibitions
2023 Disco Dance or Cry, Upper Ankyle / Feelium Gallery, London, U.K
SEEDS, Hypha Studios / A Dozen Figs, Reading U.K
2022 Ayres House, Wallingford, U,K.
Signature Art Prize Gala, Bankside, London, U,K
Pillar Installation, Marimbea, Tumaco, Colombia
2021 Urtiertoba, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
Postcards from... Villa Arson, Nice, France
Zen Garden, VA[A]DS, Tbilisi, Georgia
RALLY, Chelsea College of Arts, London, U.K
Unknown Observer, The Cookhouse. Sotheby's Institute, London U.K
Ready To Dance Again, Safehouse I & II, London U.K
Stone Fifty Six, Bruton Farm, Somerset, U.K
Postcards from Isolation, Archaeological Museum Innsbruck, Austria
Six Sites, Off-Site: Beijing, Bucharest, Edinburgh, Geneva, London & Nice
Fragments, Off-Site: Japan, U.K & Switzerland & online
Heterotopia International Festival, online
H2oooo, online
2020 Late at Tate, Tate Britain, London, U.K
Healing Landscapes, The Cookhouse, London, U.K
DIY Art Show, Off-site London, U.K
ADV Residency, online
The Victorian Solarium, online
The Anti-Rocket, online
Residencies / Awards
2023 Hypha Studios, Reading, 3 month venue
Clifford Chance x UAL Sculpture Award Shortlisted
A Dozen Figs, Residency, Hambleden, U.K
2022 Ayres House Studios, 10 Week Residency, Oxfordshire, U.K
Signature Art Prize Finalist
Informality Gallery & NthSpace Turin Residency, Shortlisted
Clifford Chance x UAL Sculpture Award Shortlisted
2021 VA[A]DS Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 ADV Residency, online
UAL Home Postgraduate Scholarship
2019 Ditch Residency, Crete, Greece
Education
2021 MA Fine Art, UAL Chelsea College of Arts, 1/2 Scholarship Funded [Distinction]
2011 BA Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London [2:1]
2023 Disco Dance or Cry, Upper Ankyle / Feelium Gallery, London, U.K
A Tale of a Dozen Figs, Hypha Studios / A Dozen Figs, Reading U.K
2021 Zen Garden, VA[A]DS, Tbilisi, Georgia
Locating II, Mestia, Georgia
Locating I, The Twine Trail, Georgia
Q'Were, w. Alberto Maggini & Soyeon Kim, Matchstick Pie House, London, U.K.
Publications
2023 A Tale of a Dozen Figs, Poem, Untold Horizons, Collection of Poems & Stories, Published by Cista Arts & Mehri Publications
2022 Beasts, Poem, Published by Forget Me Not Press
Urtiertoba, Exhibition catalogue, Published by Window Project
2021 Nan Goldin with Mica Levi, Soundwalk Collective & Franz Schubery, Memory Lost / Sirens.
Cucusonic, collaboration with Colombian bio-scientists, anthropologists, 19 musicians, University of Manchester’s ‘Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology’ and charity In Place of War.
Hala Warde & Soundwalk Collective, A Roof for Silence, soundtrack to the installation for the Lebanese Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.
Ryoji Ikeda, Technicolors
Art Themen, Greg Foat & Baldo Verdu & Moses Boyd, Four Sides to Every Story
Summer Pearl, Soul / The Social
Goya Gumbani & Subculture, KRYSTIN
2020 David Shrigley & Régis Laugier, Play Something Awful
Laurel Halo, Possessed
Laurence Lek, Temple OST
Egill Sæbjörnsson, Moonlove
Duval Timothy, Brown Loop, Help & Slave feat Twin Shadow
Soulwax EMS Synthi 100
Zebra Katz, Less Is Moor
2019 Theaster Gates & the Black Monks, Afro-Mingei
Nan Goldin & Soundwalk Collective, The Women’s March, 1789.
Bernie Krause, The Great Animal Orchestra
William Kentridge, Phillip Miller & Thuthuka Sibisi, Kaboom!
Laima Leyton, Home
Taryn Simon, An Occupational of Loss
Richie Hawtin, FUSE
Thom Yorke, Suspiria
Mira Calix, Our Time
Dave Okumu, Tom Herbert & Tom Skinner, Live at The Crypt
Joana Escoval, Beasts of Gravity
Jónsi (Sigur Rós) & Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dark Morph
Wu-Lu, S.U.F.O.S
Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, I Am Not A Monster
Les Filles de Illighadad & Edmony Krater, African Acid is the Future
2018 Michele Lamy, Nico Vascellari & Scarlett Rouge, Garden of Memory
Róisín Murphy, 4 x 12” EPs produced by Maurice Fulton
Jeremy Deller & Adrian Sherwood, Freetail Dub
Hito Steyerl, Kojey Radical & Susumu Yokota, Power Plants
Martin Creed, Work No 117, All The Sounds On A Drum Machine
La Stampa, Bonjour Trieste
Yussef Dayes & Alfa Mist, Love Is The Message
Pipilotti Rist, Soap & Skin
Jerome Hadey, Never For Money, Always For Love
Ricardo Villalobos & Jan Jelinek & Petre Inspirescu, The Remixes
Soundwalk Collective, What We Leave Behind: Jean-Luc Godard Archives
Emma-Jean Thackray, Ley Lines
Actress, Gwilym Gold, Holly Pester, Evan Ifekoya & Victoria Sin, To Corpse
2017 Rina Sawayama, Cyber Stockholm Syndrome
William Kentridge & Neo Muyanga, Second-Hand Reading
Moor Mother, The Motionless Present
Moses Boyd, Absolute Zero
Elysia Crampton, Spots Y Escupitajo
Hans Berg, Dream Maker, with Lisson Gallery
TOXE, Morning Story
Chino Amobi, Minor Matter
Gazelle Twin and Jonathan Barnbrook, Kingdom Come
Ryoji Ikeda, Music For Percussion
Wayne Snow, Nothing Wrong
2016 Amalia Ulman & Carles Santos, The Proposal
Kelela, Elysia Crampton & Adrien Piper, Final Exam
Daniele Baldelli, Vocano Extravaganza
Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra
Total Freedom & Isa Genzken, F*CK Them All
NGUZUNGUZU, Halil Altindere, Abu Hajar, Homeland
Jacolby Satterwhite, Patricia Satterwhite & Nick Weiss, Patricia
Fatima, Hito Steryl, Juliana Huxtable, Nothing Forever
Duran Duran, Paper Gods
So Low, Compilation with JD Twitch
Lail Arad, The Onion
2015 Jeremy Deller, Factory Records, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Jeremy Deller & Cecilia Bengolea, Bom Bom’s Dream
As part of Doug Aitken's, Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, Barbican Centre, London, U.K
Nozinja, Mumdance, Mica Chu, Tirzah, Thinking of You / I Won’t Rush You
Eleanor Friedberger, Shivers (Nick Cave)
Hisham Akira Bharoocha & patten, June 30th
Iain Forsyth & jane Pollard with Warren Ellis, Paradise Lost
Lonelady, Fear Colours
Jamie Lidell, New Eyes
Savages & A Dead Forest Index
Giorgio Moroder & Bruce Sudano, Willoughby
Bo Ningen, Station to Station
As part of Christian Marclay’s solo exhibition, White Cube, Bermondsey
Ryoji Ikeda & Christian Marclay, Live at White Cube
Mica Levi & London Sinfonietta, Live at White Cube
Steve Beresford, Live at White Cube
Christian Marclay & Thurston Moore, Live at White Cube
2014 Marina Abramovic, An Artist Manifesto, Spoken word recording at Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K
Trevor Jackson, FORMAT, 12 piece analogue, album release, Brewer Street Car Park, London, U.K
Curatorial
2023 SEEDS, An exhibition and public facing event series, A Dozen Figs 01, 36 Minster Street, Reading RG1 2JB
2022 ADV, online
The Triangle, London, U.K
2014 These New Puritans, Magnetic Field, 180, London, U.K
2013 Dinos Chapman, Luftbobler, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Independent Label Market, Spitalfields Market, U.K.
Jeremy Deller, English Magic, Jukebox at British Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, Italy.
David Bowie, Selfridges Concept Store, U.K.
Secret 7, Mother, Shoreditch, U.K.
Chris Levine & Grace Jones, The Tramshed, Cock 'n Bull Gallery, London, U.K.
Music Collection, Royal Albert Hall, U.K.
Nick Rhodes, Bei Incubi, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Dinos Chapman, Luftbobler, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
2012 Lyle Owerko, The Boombox Project, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Tim Noble & Sue Webster, N/O, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Martin Creed, Love to me, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Shepard Fairey, The Album Covers, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Grace Jones & Chris Levine, Superstar, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Leee Black Childers,
Jubilee, Selfridges Concept Store, U.K.
2011 Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
2010 Grace Jones & Chris Levine, The Vinyl Factory London, U.K
Press
NORSICAA Soho Radio, Interview