Egidija

Egidija Čiricaitė plays with and around language through publishing, writing and academic research, creating “nebulous worlds at the periphery of linguistic experience”. She experiments with writing, often merging visual and verbal reading though evocative language and word/image overlap. Many of her books considered visual poetry.

She is a London based artist and a poet, pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD at the Slade and UCL Linguistics, London.

Egidija was born and grew up in Kaunas, Lithuania, where she completed her BA and MA in English Linguistics. Ten years later she attended Chelsea College of Arts and Camberwell College of Arts, where she graduated with another MA in Visual Arts. Subsequently, she set up a book/publishing collective Collective Investigations, which for ten years produced print, as well as installation and video books, some with generous Arts Council funding. Egidija was part of organising committee for Artist Books Now at the British Library, London and she co-curated Artist Books and Medical Humanities project at University of Kent. Egidija is currently working on her PhD at UCL, whilst publishing visual poetry though performance with European Poetry Festival and preparing a new visual poetry collection to be published with PSW gallery, Germany.

Egidija’s work is held at Museum Meermanno (Amsterdam, Holland), V&A Museum (London),, Tate Special Collections (London), Yale Center for British Art (USA), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munchen), Saison Poetry Library (London), School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Preusischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek) (Germany), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Den Haag, Netherlands), Bibliotheque Kandinsky-Centre Pompidou (Paris), and numerous other public and private collections.