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Photos of the artist by Ann Rapstoff and Dorothy Burrows

Curriculum Vitae
www.vickyvergou.co.uk • v.vergou@gmail.com • @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 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

Selected exhibitions

• OIKA (ecological intelligence community) presentation. A Cretan walk. February 2021
• Photo Oxford 2020. “Nostos” Women and Photography, Magdalen Road studios. November 2020
• Group exhibition 2019, “Synergies”, Eos gallery, Athens. Paintings and drawings.
• Cosmocinema Film Festival, 2019 London. Selected film Continuum AV
  collaborations
• Liquidscapes Symposium, 2018, art.earth, Dartington Hall, Devon. Selected film
  Continuum AV collaborations
• Exhibition with Jo Thomas. 2018 “Landlines”, Old Fire Station, Oxford. Drawings.
• Light Moves Installations at Dance Limerick, 2016 Ireland. Selected film Coat. the
  turning and returning of the tide
• Magdalen Road Studios artists exhibition 2016, VW showroom, Oxford. "In the
  manner of speaking”. Performance and installation AV collaborations
• Photography & Artist’s Film competition 2015, “In Motion”, Stiwdio Maelor N.Wales.
  Selected film Waterscapes
• Oxford based Filmmakers 2015, Festival of Moving Image “Videovada”, OVADA.
  Selected film: Waterscapes
• Decoda, Summer Dancing Festival 2014, Coventry University. Film premier Coat.
  The Turning and Returning of the Tide. A collaborative film with Hilary Kneale and
  Helen Poynor. Artists talk
• London Greek Film Festival, 2014. Selected film Waterscapes Odysseus award.
• 4th Athens Biennale 2013, “Vital Space, 60” Video Competition Paralanguage V4
• 11th International MitOst Festival, 2013. “360o Around the Human Factor”, Berlin.
  Paralanguage V3
• Language Paralanguage Public art touring project supported by Arts Council
  England, Artpoint & Dada South. 2011: Oxford Brookes University - Outside:Inside Festival, Reading. Ιn association with Jelly. Oxford week in Bonn, Germany - Oxford Castle. 2010: The Reading Language & Culture Festival - Outside:Inside Festival, The Oracle, Reading
• London Greek Film Festival 2010. Selected film Language x3 with Jo Thomas and Conrado Silva de Farias
• Athens Video Art Festival, 2009. Selected film Blood and Water
• TIE group exhibition “The gift” 2008, OVADA, Oxford. An Odyssey Part III, sound &
  video installation (Arts Council England grand)
• Group exhibition “The Oxford Open” 2008 , Modern Art Oxford. Selected film Time 0

• Solo exhibition “Preserve” 2005, Vale & Downland Museum, Wantage, Oxfordshire. Installation
• Solo exhibition 2004 EPASKT (Association of Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates). Continuum installation

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

Commissions
Short documentary for Enabling theatre 2020 Videography for Ebb and Flow counselling Videography for artist Karen Purple
Public art waterscapes for Aylesbury hospital 2014

Residencies
Little Wittenham 2020. Oxfordshire. ​AV collaborations
​Manorbier 2019. South Wales. AV collaborations
Gower Peninsula, 2015. South Wales. Waters meet P2, AV collaborations
Gower Peninsula, 2014. South Wales. Waters meet P1, AV collaborations
Link Gallery, John Radcliffe Hospital, 2014 Oxford. Water Maps, AV collaborations
Filament 14, Magdalen Road Studios, 2013 Oxford. Between Waters. AV
collaborations. Artists’ talk
The Riverside Museum, Turbine Hall Gallery, 2010 Reading, with Conrado.S.Farrias
Evangelismos Hospital, Department of Immunology 2010 Plus Athens Greece
The Dairy, Oxford Headington Hill Park 2006. In association with OVADA. An
Odyssey Part I Publications
Liquidscapes edited by Richard Povall, art.earth Books
Analosi kata protimisi prin to telos pandon, illustrations for poetry collection of Pavlos Avouris. Publisher Sto Perithorio

Collaborations
Artists and writers: Ann Rapstoff (AV collaborations), Jo Thomas (UK), Sophie Cabot(Canada), Ida Larsen (Denmark), Conrado Silva de Farias (Brazil), Hilary Kneale (UK), Helen Poynor (UK), Pavlos Avouris (Greece), Caroline Rager (Austria)

Memberships
OIKA ecological intelligence community
a-n The Artists Information Companywww.a-n.co.uk/ Magdalen Road studios, Oxford
OVADA Visual Art Oxfordshire
Membership IFL (Institute for Learning) 2006-08​