Theodora Prassa is an artist, and educator who is based in Nottingham. Her practice explores narration, identity and interruption of meaning taking place with migration.
She embraces printmaking traditional processes. Through photography, she works with handmade and digital collages. Repetition is often identified in her work through patterns, and textures.
Her work also, borrows urban forms from public space and reinterprets them in new compositions, creating a series of abstract landscapes that provoke different viewpoints.
Theodora is passionate about sharing knowledge and reaching people and communities through creative formats with art.
Residencies I Commissions I Awards
2023 - Shortlisted NAE Open Judges Prize, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2023 - Dizzy Ink Award Winner, Derby Print Open, Derby, UK
2022 - Commission: The Art and Poetry Project - Derby Cathedral Quarter, Artcore Gallery Project, Derby , UK
2021 - Artist in (Virtual) Residency, Celdelnord, Barcelona, SP
2021 - Commission: S.H.E.D Derby Project, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2020- Commission: Pixels project curated by Miss Dialectic as part of the Goethe-Institut's "The Disappearing Wall"
2020 - Artist in Residence, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2018 - 3rd prize short film winner in VIVA Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Derby Print Open, Green Doors Printmaking Studios, Derby, UK
2023 - NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2023 - 1922 - 2022 Exit - Way Out at Hellenic Parliament Library (former Public Tobacco Factory), Athens, GR
2022 - Creative Reactions, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2022- Abstract, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2021 - The Wrong Biennale, Pavilion 4, e-den, Curated by Ayshia Taskin
2021 - Thessaloniki Design Week, Helexpo, Thessaloniki, GR
2021 - Derby Voice, Derby Cathedral, Derby, UK, Curated by Rhiannon Jones and Daithi McMahon
2021 - Tides of the Century, Ocean Flower Island Museum in Hainan, CHI, Curated by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Katerina Koskina
2020- 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Technotribalism, Video Art, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Athens. GR
2020 - [SHIFT:ibpcpa] The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts. Curated by Ayshia Taskin, The Wall Space Gallery, UK
2020 - Outside the Form, Fringe Arts Bath, Curated by Anthoniy Val, Bath, UK
2020 - Riotous Assembly, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2019 - New Designers, London, UK
2019 - Bonington Vitrines #12 Complaint, Curated by Bonington Student Curatorial Group, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2018 - The New New 3rd Art and Science Festival, Curated by Lydia Chatziiakovou, TIF Helexpo, Thessaloniki, GR
2018 - Ex Libris, Brachasi, Crete, GR
2017 - Good Design Greece, Athens, GR
2016 - Ode to the sea: periodic exhibition, Hellenic Foundation for Culture, Odessa, UKR
2015 - Thessaloniki = Aleksandreia, 45+4 Artistic Approaches, Cultural Centre of Vafopoulio, Thessaloniki, GR
2015- 2nd Biennial Greek - Indian Student Printmaking, Xotaris Art Forum, Archanes, Crete, GR
2014 - Periodic Exhibition,Our (?) Byzantium, 30 + 1 visual approaches, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Used Look: Performing politics, Hildesheim, GER
2014 - In Between, Metapolis, Athens, GR
Selected Screenings
2019 - Xouth Festival, Artens, Athens, GR
2019 - 1525 x Oneiroi, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2019 - Not a Live Show, Curated by Emily Gray, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2018 - VIVA Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH
2018 - Eye's Walk Festival, Syros , GR
2018 - SKG Bridges, Thessaloniki, GR
2017 - 60-60.network @ de-TOUR. Palais van Mieris, Amsterdam, HOL
2017 - Internet Yami-Ichi, Brussels, BEL
2017 - 57th Venice Biennale, GradCAM@Research Pavilion screenings, Venice, ITA
2016 - Ephesus Video Art, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TUR
2016 - European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, GER
2015 - Public Interrogation: Outside the White Cube, Curated by The Multiple exposure Project, Public Spaces, Metro Manila, PH
2015 - 11th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Public Space, Video Art, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Athens, GR
Lectures I Workshops
2021 - Current - Short Course - Sustainable Textile Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2021 - Current - Saturday Art Club Tutor, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2021 - Guest Lecturer - School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2021- Future Endeavours, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2021 - Workshop Facilitator, Tebbs Gallery, London, UK
2016 - Workshop Facilitator at National Gallery, Annex Nafplio, GR
Education
2017- 2019 - MA (Distinction) Textile Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2011-2017 - BA -MA (Distinction) Visual and Applied Arts Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Institute of Fine Arts and Art Science, University of Hildesheim (Erasmus program) Hildesheim, GER
Scholarships
2017 - Scholarship, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017 - Erasmus Traineeship Scholarship, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, GR
2016 - Scholarship, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Greece Harvard University, Washington, US
2015 - Rewarding Scholarship, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Erasmus Studies Scholarship, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR