I am an artist, poet and researcher working with visual poetry, artist's books and installation. My work attends to the materiality of language, the experience of reading, and cultural memory. Born in Kaunas, I am based in London, and I am completing an interdisciplinary PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art with UCL Linguistics.        →CV←

Collections

V&A Museum · Tate Special Collection · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Yale Center for British Art · Baltimore Museum of Art · Bibliothèque Kandinsky – Centre  Pompidou, Paris · Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek) · National Museum of Wales · Museum Meermanno, The Hague · The British Library, Collection of Artist's Books · Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München · Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag · the Wellcome Library · Saison Poetry Library · Scottish Poetry Library · Centre international de poésie, Marseille · Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol · Camberwell College of Arts · Chelsea College of Arts · University of California, San Diego · School of the Art Institute of Chicago · Maryland Institute College of Art · Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis · University of Cambridge, Department of Philosophy · Brotherton Library, University of Leeds · Sheffield Hallam University · University of Southampton
And other public and private collections. 

Practice

My creative and academic practice occupies a constellation of activities across artistic, poetic, and scholarly spaces centred around language, playing with and around the point when words become things and things become language. I type)write, publish, perform, make (porcelain) objects. I research. I create nebulous worlds at the periphery of reading experience.

My current work contemplates authenticity, continuity and cultural memory through visual and textual writing. My recent Lovatiesė series is inspired by the patterns of my family's heirloom textiles, woven in a small village in south Lithuania. Composed on a typewriter, my prints, visual poetry and artist's books illuminate the twilight space between innovation and tradition, authenticity and copy, home and other.

the dust of knowledge, memory and culture, that clings to us and our words, creating ambiguity, untranslatability / the interval between seeing and reading, reading and experiencing / bilingually, with visual noise, that amplifies material and immaterial interferences / hazy edges of snow, billow, white, and sniegas, miegas, sliekas / blurred boundaries of book, poem, genre, and authenticity.

Research

My thesis examines how artist's books generate meaning through the interaction of word and image. I use Relevance Theory in cognitive pragmatics  to investigate how readers infer meaning from their relationships, ambiguities and gaps. My theoretical research examines non-propositional effects and the role of ostensive acts in literary and visual arts.

My paper "On Decoy Artist Books: Do Judge the Book by its Cover" appears in the Artist's Book Yearbook 2026–27 (Impact Press, University of the West of England, Bristol) in spring 2026. I have discussed my interests in an interview with the Warburg Institute.

Navigating between the mythopoetics of today and the past,
between English and Lithuanian, between the digital and the analogue, between text and textile,
my poetry and prints abide on ethereal papers
between existence, illusion and unbeing.

Contact

Contact me or Galerie DRUCK & BUCH for currently available works for sale.

E-mail: mail@egidija.com

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