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
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Critical Theory & Practice
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Time-Based Installation & 4D Practices
2008 - 2009 Foundation in Art, Media & Design The School of Art, Architecture and Design
London, UK
- 2013 -2018
Studio Assistant, Henry Krokatsis Queens Rolla House, studio team
- 2011
Curatorial Assistant, The Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) Islington London
- 2010
Performance group
- 2009
Intern, The Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) Islington London
BIOGRAPHY
Fredrix Vermin is an artist concerned with questioning established value systems and interorgating ideas of what is considered natural, especially in the built environment. They can often be found shut up in their flat for weeks on end or mooching about South East London searching in the gutter, occaisonally gazing up at snippets of sky.
Founder of The House of Parakeet and co-founder of the micro publishing collective GROTTI, with works held in the British Library and elswhere. They have exhibited internationally, and nationally on a regular basis.
The work 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 percieved. Drawing is always a vital starting point and an integral thread through the work.
Collaboration and interaction are considered to be essential areas of practice through, curating group shows, collaborative projects and also knowledge sharing. Performance and workshops regularly run in tandem to the exhibited works in order 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.