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Alexis Demetriades
Alexis Demetriades
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Artefacting (Grinding Stone, Jericho, Palestine, Middle Bronze Age), Alexis Demetriades (3D scan data from Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
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School
School of Communication
Programme
MA Visual Communication
Specialism
Visual Communication: Illustration
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My work examines museums, which are primarily tasked with ordering the world, and the chaotic wilderness of distorted time, weird rituals, and unique ecology that exists within them. I hope that by finding points of connection between museums and the cultures of other times and places that they display, we can be absorbed into a larger story while testing the foundations of institutional authority.
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Previous degrees
- BA Fine Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2008
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Experiences
- Medical illustrator, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, American College of Surgeons, University of Southern California, McGraw Hill, Springer Publishing, and others, 2008–Present; Illustrator, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., USA, 2011–2014
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Exhibitions
- Table Manners, Chalton Gallery, London, 2018; ( ) Scapes, Putney Bridge, London, 2018; Apologies in Advance, Iklektic, London, 2018; London Design Week, V&A, London, 2016; Illustrating Nature, Pacific Grove Natural History Museum, Pacific Grove, USA, 2012; Migration Study, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, 2011; The Known World, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010
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Awards
- First prize in surgery category, British Medical Association Book Awards, 2016