EDUCATION



2022 - 2024
The Other MA (*TOMA)
Placement funded by Sarah Lucas.
Southend-on-Sea
Essex, UK



2009 - 2012
Fine Art Sculpture, First-Class BA (hons)
The School of Art, Architecture & Design London, UK

Electives;

  • Drawing Systems
  • Critical Theory & Practice
  • Time-Based Installation & 4D Practices


2008 - 2009 Foundation in Art, Media & Design The School of Art, Architecture and Design
London, UK




PRACTICE



JOINED 2023 - ONGOING
Incidental Person of Incidental Unit (IU). Diseminated from Organisation & Imagination (O+I) and Artists Placement Group (APG)


2017 - ONGOING
Founded  The House of Parakeet,       A project space in a domestice           residence, now a satellite project.

2015 - ONGOING
Aided Neil Ferguson in                       establishing INCON, A series of         long term collaborative projects         culminatng in an activation event.

2013 - 2018
Studio Assistant, Henry Krokatsis Queens Rolla House, Technical Assistant and Install Lead.

2011
Curatorial Assistant, The Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) Islington London

2010
Joined The Readers
Performance group

2010
London:Zagreb art exchange
organised by Ben Cain

2009
Intern, The Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) Islington London









BIOGRAPHY



Fredrix Vermin is an artist concerned with questioning established value systems and interrogating ideas of what is considered natural, especially in the built environment. They can usually be found shut up in their concrete tower block overlooking and ancient woodland, or mooching about South-East London, searching in the gutter for materials, navigating edgelands and occasionally gazing up at snippets of sky.  

They have worked as an artist internationally, as well as nationally on a regular basis. Founder of The House of Parakeet 2017, (*TOMA) 22-24 cohort Graduate, an establishing member of INCON and co-founder of the micro publishing collective GROTTI, with works held in The British Library and throughout the UK & Ireland. Current participant of Incidental Unit which came out of Artists Placement Group 1966.
 

Creative endeavour is seen as a critical pursuit and the work often manifests as refined clutter made from discarded materials; scooped up on the roadside, rummaged for in skips or unearthed in edge-lands, compiled and elevated in status to something to be perceived. The tools of late-stage capitalism are regularly employed in conjunction with these works. Drawing is always a vital starting point and an integral thread through the work.

 
Collaboration and interaction are essential areas for research and practice through curating group shows, initiating collaborative projects and knowledge and skill sharing. Performance and workshops regularly run in tandem to the exhibited works to clarify, bolster and expand upon the ideas presented.
 

Whilst not exploring methods used for world domination & destruction, Fredrix Vermin is concerned with disrupting conventional wisdoms using serious silliness as a radical form of critique.