CURRICULUM VITAE
www.vickyvergou.com • [email protected] • @vickyvergou • +447811450567
EDUCATION
2005 MA in Contemporary Arts and Music, Oxford Brookes University
2005 City and Guilds 7407 Teaching in Adult Education, Abingdon & Witney College
1998 BA Honours in Graphic Design, Vakalo School of Art & Design
1987 Diploma in Cinematography, Cinema School Evgenia Chatzikou
1981 Apolitirio Likiou (equiv. to A levels), Likio Levadia Greece
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 OIKA (international ecological intelligence community). Online artist’s talk “A Cretan walk”, Photography, drawings and narrative
2018 Old Fire Station, Oxford. Featuring Jo Thomas.“Landlines”, drawings
2018 Vale & Downland Museum, Oxfordshire. Featuring Jo Thomas.“Landlines”, drawings
2005 Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire. “Preserve” Paintings
2004 EPASKT (Association of Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates), Athens, “Continuum” installation. Presentation of illustration, poetry Pavlos Avouris.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 OVADA Oxford, Unprecedented. Selected film "A special time”
2020 Magdalen Road studios, Photo Oxford, Women and Photography “Nostos. AVcollaborations
2019 Eos Art gallery, Athens. Synergies. Paintings, drawings, film.
2019 Cosmocinema Film Festival, London. Selected film “Continuum” AV collaborations
2018 art.earth Symposium Liquidscapes, Dartington Hall, Devon. Selected film "Continuum” AV collaborations
2016 Light Moves Installations at Dance Limerick, Ireland. Selected film “Coat.The Turning and Returning of the Tide” with Hillary Kneale. Director Helen Poynor
2016 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, VW showroom. "In the manner of speaking”. Performance/installation AV collaborations
2015 Stiwdio Maelor N.Wales, In Motion, Photography & Artists’ film competition. Selected film “Waterscapes”.
2015 OVADA, Festival of moving image Videovada. Oxford based Filmmakers. Selected film: “Waterscapes”
2015 The Abbey, Magdalen Road Studios exhibitons, Unravelled. “Watermaps” film and sound workshop. AV collaborations
2014 DECODA, Summer Dancing Festival, Coventry University. Film premier. “Coat. The Turning and Returning of the Tide”. A collaboration with Hilary Kneale and Helen Poynor. Artists talk
2014 London Greek Film Festival.
2013 4th Athens Biennale, “Vital Space, 60” Video Competition "Paralanguage V4”
2013 11th International MitOst Festival, Berlin. 360o Around the Human Factor, “Paralanguage V3”
2013 European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, Language Paralanguage installation
2012 Elmur.net VideoBites The Everything Else Berlin - selected video “Paralanguage”
2010/11 Arts Council England, “Language Pralanguage” touring public art.
2010 The Vale and Downland Museum “Within 10 miles”. Drawing
2010 London Greek Film Festival.
• Selected film “Language x3" collaboration with Jo Thomas & Conrado Silva de Farias.
• Selected film “Odyssey”
2009 Athens Video Art Festival, Selected film “Blood and Water”
2009 Oxford Town Hall Inspiration and Interpretation. “Bloodscapes” Ζωγραφική
2008 OVADA, Oxford, TIE group exhibition The gift. Sound &video installation “Odyssey Part III”, (Arts Council England)
2008 Modern Art Oxford The Oxford Open, Selected film "Time 0”
2008 Reading Experimental film festival, video art “Time 0”
2007 ReOrsa, Bracknell “Red Figures” installation
2006 Oxford Town Hall Aftermath “An Odyssey P1” Installation
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
AV collaborations, with Ann Rapstoff
• Gower Peninsula, Summer 2014 “Waters meet P1”, AV collaborations
• 2014 Oxford, Link Gallery, John Radcliffe Hospital. “Watermaps”
2010 Evangelismos Hospital, Department of Immunology “Plus” Athens Greece
2008 Artwash, Art Residency 20 January Oxford OX3 9AJ
2006 In association with OVADA, Oxford Headington Hill Park “The Dairy”.
AWARDS
2014 Odysseus award, London Greek Film Festival in Video Art
2011 Arts Council England grant for “Language Paralanguage” public art project
2008 Arts Council England grant for group exhibition at OVADA gallery
PUBLICATIONS
“Liquidscapes" Ενθετο, edited by Richard Povall. Publisher art.earth Books
“Ανάλωση κατα προτίμηση πριν το τέλος πάντων” Illustrations for poetry collection of Pavlos Avouris. Publisher Sto Perithorio. First edition April 2019
CRITICS
2008 OVADA The gift
2014 7th annual London Greek FilmFestival
OTHER
www.vickyvergou.com • [email protected] • @vickyvergou • +447811450567
EDUCATION
2005 MA in Contemporary Arts and Music, Oxford Brookes University
2005 City and Guilds 7407 Teaching in Adult Education, Abingdon & Witney College
1998 BA Honours in Graphic Design, Vakalo School of Art & Design
1987 Diploma in Cinematography, Cinema School Evgenia Chatzikou
1981 Apolitirio Likiou (equiv. to A levels), Likio Levadia Greece
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 OIKA (international ecological intelligence community). Online artist’s talk “A Cretan walk”, Photography, drawings and narrative
2018 Old Fire Station, Oxford. Featuring Jo Thomas.“Landlines”, drawings
2018 Vale & Downland Museum, Oxfordshire. Featuring Jo Thomas.“Landlines”, drawings
2005 Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire. “Preserve” Paintings
2004 EPASKT (Association of Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates), Athens, “Continuum” installation. Presentation of illustration, poetry Pavlos Avouris.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 OVADA Oxford, Unprecedented. Selected film "A special time”
2020 Magdalen Road studios, Photo Oxford, Women and Photography “Nostos. AVcollaborations
2019 Eos Art gallery, Athens. Synergies. Paintings, drawings, film.
2019 Cosmocinema Film Festival, London. Selected film “Continuum” AV collaborations
2018 art.earth Symposium Liquidscapes, Dartington Hall, Devon. Selected film "Continuum” AV collaborations
2016 Light Moves Installations at Dance Limerick, Ireland. Selected film “Coat.The Turning and Returning of the Tide” with Hillary Kneale. Director Helen Poynor
2016 Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford, VW showroom. "In the manner of speaking”. Performance/installation AV collaborations
2015 Stiwdio Maelor N.Wales, In Motion, Photography & Artists’ film competition. Selected film “Waterscapes”.
2015 OVADA, Festival of moving image Videovada. Oxford based Filmmakers. Selected film: “Waterscapes”
2015 The Abbey, Magdalen Road Studios exhibitons, Unravelled. “Watermaps” film and sound workshop. AV collaborations
2014 DECODA, Summer Dancing Festival, Coventry University. Film premier. “Coat. The Turning and Returning of the Tide”. A collaboration with Hilary Kneale and Helen Poynor. Artists talk
2014 London Greek Film Festival.
- Selected film “Waterscapes”. M. Cacoyannis Foundation Odysseus award in videoart
2013 4th Athens Biennale, “Vital Space, 60” Video Competition "Paralanguage V4”
2013 11th International MitOst Festival, Berlin. 360o Around the Human Factor, “Paralanguage V3”
2013 European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, Language Paralanguage installation
2012 Elmur.net VideoBites The Everything Else Berlin - selected video “Paralanguage”
2010/11 Arts Council England, “Language Pralanguage” touring public art.
- Oxford Brookes University
- Outside:Inside Festival, Reading. Ιn association with Jelly
- Twin cities Oxford week in Bonn
- Oxford Castle
- The Reading Language & Culture Festival - Outside:Inside
2010 The Vale and Downland Museum “Within 10 miles”. Drawing
2010 London Greek Film Festival.
• Selected film “Language x3" collaboration with Jo Thomas & Conrado Silva de Farias.
• Selected film “Odyssey”
2009 Athens Video Art Festival, Selected film “Blood and Water”
2009 Oxford Town Hall Inspiration and Interpretation. “Bloodscapes” Ζωγραφική
2008 OVADA, Oxford, TIE group exhibition The gift. Sound &video installation “Odyssey Part III”, (Arts Council England)
2008 Modern Art Oxford The Oxford Open, Selected film "Time 0”
2008 Reading Experimental film festival, video art “Time 0”
2007 ReOrsa, Bracknell “Red Figures” installation
2006 Oxford Town Hall Aftermath “An Odyssey P1” Installation
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
AV collaborations, with Ann Rapstoff
- Little Wittenham 2020. Oxfordshire. “Nostos”
- Manorbier 2019. “Natural materials”
• Gower Peninsula, Summer 2014 “Waters meet P1”, AV collaborations
• 2014 Oxford, Link Gallery, John Radcliffe Hospital. “Watermaps”
- 2013 Filament 14, Magdalen Road Studios, Filament 14. Oxford. “Between Waters”. Artists’ talk
2010 Evangelismos Hospital, Department of Immunology “Plus” Athens Greece
2008 Artwash, Art Residency 20 January Oxford OX3 9AJ
2006 In association with OVADA, Oxford Headington Hill Park “The Dairy”.
AWARDS
2014 Odysseus award, London Greek Film Festival in Video Art
2011 Arts Council England grant for “Language Paralanguage” public art project
2008 Arts Council England grant for group exhibition at OVADA gallery
PUBLICATIONS
“Liquidscapes" Ενθετο, edited by Richard Povall. Publisher art.earth Books
“Ανάλωση κατα προτίμηση πριν το τέλος πάντων” Illustrations for poetry collection of Pavlos Avouris. Publisher Sto Perithorio. First edition April 2019
CRITICS
2008 OVADA The gift
2014 7th annual London Greek FilmFestival
OTHER
- Short documentary for Enabling theatre 2020
- Videography for artist Karen Purple 2016