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
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 and the human body. They can usually be found shut up in their concrete tower block overlooking 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.