Damaris Athene
Damaris Athene (UK) lives and works in Stockholm and London. Athene’s transdisciplinary
practice explores the posthuman and how lived experience mediated through technology offers new ways of viewing the materiality and potential of the body. Her work inhabits liminal space, slipping between the real and unreal, and swimming through permeable boundaries between bodies, the organic and synthetic, the digital and physical, and 2D/3D space. Work transmutes from painting to sculpture, photography, and digital collage, often accumulating in installations. Athene graduated from the Royal College of Arts with an MA in Ceramics and Glass in 2024 (Marit Rausing Scholarship) and from City & Guilds with an MA in Fine Art in 2023 (Leverhulme Trust Scholarship).
Awarded residencies: RCA/Konstfack Exchange supported by the Anglo-Swedish Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (2025); 17th Werkstattwoche Festival, Lüben, Germany (2025).
Solo exhibitions include: SLQS Gallery, London (Upcoming 2025); All Trussed Up and Nowhere to Go, ] G A Z E [Art Space, Shrewsbury (2022); Cheer Up Love, Peterhouse, Cambridge (2019); I Shall Walk Softly There, Wigan S.T.E.A.M., Wigan (2018). Recent group exhibitions include: In/Visible: The Changing Shape of Womanhood, Galerie de l’Est, Compiègne, France (2025); A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, UK (2024); In Loving Memory, Guts Gallery Project Space, London, UK (2024); Unveiling Abstractions, Hypha HQ, London, UK (2024); Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2023); Adjacent Colours, D Contemporary, London, UK (2023); Bodies, Gluttony and Me, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (2023); current/s, MeetFrida at PHOTOPIA, Hamburg, Germany (2023); NOW Introducing, Studio West Gallery, London, UK (2022); BEYOND IMAGE, MeetFrida at Triennial Der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany (2022); A BODY: FIGURE AND FLESH, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Our New World, ArtGirlRising x Subject Matter x FORA, London, UK (2022); Warmth, Stay Home Gallery,
Paris, Tennessee, USA (2022).