I’m a Franco-British artist (b. 1990, Paris) working primarily with photography, as well as a freelance picture researcher and translator.
Born out of collection, intuition and empathic response, my artistic practice touches on ideas of intimacy, loss, and memory. I weave imagery, both made and found, with research and writing in an attempt to tell compelling, tender and largely introspective stories.
I currently live and work in Lisbon where I still spend a considerable amount of time chopping up flowers.
fiona.filipidis@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
2016-2017 MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, London College of Communication (UAL), UK
2010-2013 BA Photography, Icart Photo, Paris, France
2008-2009 Foundation in Art and Design, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Velvet, Blow me from the mountains and into the sea, After School Special, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
2019 Velvet, The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy
2019 Velvet, Loupe: Another Graduate Show, Northern Eye Festival, Wales
2019 Velvet, Loupe: Another Graduate Show, The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2019 Velvet, Sistemi, Centrale 11, Fano, Italy
2019 Velvet, Palm* Photo Prize, theprintspace, London
2018 Velvet, The Sky Opens Twice, Daverio, Italy
2018 Velvet, The Sky Opens Twice, JEST, Turin, Italy
2018 El Dorado, Latin American Myth Deconstruction, The Crypt Gallery, London
2018 To make a prairie, LoosenArt - Absences, Rome, Italy
2017 To make a prairie, Dyadic, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Degree Show, LCC, UK
2016 Grandad, L’Emoi Photographique, Angoulême, France
2015 Grandad, Photoville NYC, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA
2015 Grandad, Salon d’Art Contemporain Inner’Art, Point Ephémère, Paris, France
2014 Grandad, Festival de la Photographie Méditerranéenne, Vence, France
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021 Selected as a GUP Fresh Eyes Talent 2021
2019 Shortlisted for the Freelens Prix Nouvelles Écritures
2019 Dartmoor Summer School of Photography, Dartmoor National Park, UK
2018 Selected by Alicia Hart for Source Magazine’s Graduate Photography Online
2018 In Between Shores Residency - Ardesia Projects, JEST Fotografia & Witty Kiwi - Daverio, Italy
2018 Shortlisted for the Royal Photographic Society's International Photography Exhibition 161
2018 Nominated by Zelda Cheatle for MACK's First Book Award
2018 Shortlisted for the Triskel 40 Photo Prize
2018 Shortlisted for the Art for the Environment Residency Programme at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
SELECTED FEATURES
Transference
Source
Assembramento
Why Now
Don’t Take Pictures - Bug Off
Don’t Take Pictures
Humble Arts Foundation
Palm*
Streit House Space
Aesthetica
Source
C 41 Magazine
Aint-Bad - What We've Found "The Portrait"
Aint-Bad - What We've Read
Float
The Earth Issue
Light Leaked
OLOW
Aint-Bad - What We've Found "Heatwave"
F-Stop
Milk
Aint-Bad
Les Others
INTERVIEWS
Fotoroom
PHmuseum
Loupe
Photograd
Phototrend
The Arts Factory Magazine
La Galerie Virtuelle
PUBLICATIONS
Valentine Editions, Rock, 2023
Source, Issue 95, Autumn 2018
Aesthetica, Issue 84, Aug/Sept 2018
Noice, Issue .007 - Green, March 2016
OLOW, English Breakfast, Jan 2016
PORTFOLIO/BOOK EVENTS
2019 Velvet, Photo Scratch, Hotshoe 333, London
2018 Velvet, Folio Friday, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
2018 To make a prairie, Photo Scratch, Hotel Elephant, London
2018 Offprint London, Art Publishing Fair, Tate Modern
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