I am an artist, poet and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary poetic practice, artist books and cognitive pragmatics. I write, draw, publish, and speak in galleries and universities, creating fragile nebulous worlds at the periphery of linguistic experience. The themes of authenticity, continuity and cultural memory run through my work. Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, based in London.

Education

2018–26  PhD, Slade School of Fine Art with UCL Linguistics, University College London
2009–11  MA Visual Arts (Book Arts), Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
1996–98  MA English Linguistics, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Academic publications

Čiricaitė, E. (2026) 'On Decoy Books: Do Judge the Book by its Cover'. Artist's Book Yearbook 2026–2027. Bristol: Impact Press.
Čiricaitė, E. (2024) 'The Relevance of Relevance: A Glance at Artist Books from Pragmatics; and a Few Observations'. The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists' Books, 19(1).

Collections

My artist's books are held at the V&A Museum, London; Tate Special Collections, London; the British Library Collection of Artists' Books, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Baltimore Museum of Art; Bibliothèque Kandinsky – Centre Pompidou, Paris; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek); Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague; Museum Meermanno, The Hague; Centre International de Poésie, Marseille; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; the Wellcome Library, London; Saison Poetry Library, London; Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh; Camberwell College of Arts, London; Chelsea College of Arts, London; Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol; University of California, San Diego; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis; University of Cambridge, Department of Philosophy; Brotherton Library, University of Leeds; Sheffield Hallam University (Adsetts Centre); University of Southampton (Hartley Library); and other public and private collections.

My visual poetry has been published in ASWIRL and MINUTE REVIEW.

Awards

2025  dangus/dew, MCBA Prize semifinalist
2019–22  Malcolm Hughes Research Bursaries, the Slade, UCL
2016, 2018  Selected among ten best artists' books of the year, a-n
2015  Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize, winner
2013  Arts Council England grant, Codex: Between This and That

Conference papers and symposia

2026  'Gedichtbuch. Bedspread. Between Authenticity and Continuity'. After the Fold, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, 28–29 September
2025  'Reading the Inferential Space Between Page, Photograph and Paragraph'. Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, 15–17 July
2025  'The Art of Reading Ulises Carrión's Looking for Poetry'. UCL Artists' Books Symposium, University College London, 9 June
2025  'Book as Object'. Invited keynote, Materiality of the Book Symposium, Royal College of Art, London, 7 April
2022  'Looking for Poetry Between Word and Image in Ulises Carrión's Artist Books'. Image/Text – What/Next?, University of York, 24 June
2021  'Between Seeing and Reading'. IMPACT 11 International Printmaking Conference, Hong Kong Open Printshop, 20–25 April

Solo exhibitions

2024  weaving patterns for poetry | webmuster für poesie | poezijos raštai. Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, 3–31 October
2024  Lovatiesė. abC Art Book in China, Quanyechang Cultural Arts Center, Beijing, June
2024  Lovatiesė. MEWS, Luxelakes, Chengdu, 28 March – 26 May

Associated publication: Čiricaitė, E. (2023) Weaving Patterns for Poetry. TYPEWRITTEN series, no. 18. Berlin: psw (Petra Schulze-Wollgast).

Selected group exhibitions

2025–26  Weaving Patterns for Poetry in Typescripts: Raffaella della Olga. The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 22 November – 31 May
2025–26  Soft Snow and About Stones in At the Promised Place. Urawa Art Museum, Japan, 15 November – 18 January
2025  rauda in Spineless Wonders: Re:Collection. School of Art, Aberystwyth University, 10 March – 6 May
2023  About Stones in The Mountains Are Calling…. Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 3 March – 17 April
2022  Bless/Blast in 150th Anniversary of the Slade. Octagon Gallery, UCL, London, August

Interviews and features

2025  Interview, Warburg Institute Blog
2024  Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib Uns Unsere Schuld. Poetry commission, ed. Eric Otieno Sumba. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2024  lovatiesė series. ASWIRL Poetry Magazine, winter
2021  Interview, Something to Do with Art podcast, hosted by Robert Good
2020  Interview with Gill Partington, Munby Fellow, University of Cambridge
2019  Soft Snow in Sarah Bodman, Artists' Books 2018: 10 of the Best, a-n

Performances, readings and presentations

European Poetry Festival, London – regular participant
Colour & Poetry Symposium, UCL, London – regular participant
2026  white, white (balta, balta). Colour & Poetry VIII, Housman Room, UCL, 22 March
2025  Lithuanian Poetry Celebration, European Poetry Festival. With Jonathan Boyd, OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, London, 21 June
2025  Artist's presentation. Leicester Print Festival, Leicester Print Workshop, 22 June
2024  dangus/dew (everything is pure). Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Public Library, 12–14 April
2024  Speaking Volumes: Women in the Artists' Book Collection, University of Dundee, 5 March
2023  Artist's presentation. Athens Art Book Fair, Athens Conservatoire, 7 October
2023  Red (Colour). Colour & Poetry 2023, Slade School of Fine Art, 21 March
2022  Reading with SJ Fowler from Show Me the Original. Small Publishers Fair, London, 29 October
2022  Performance with Jules Sparke. Iklectik Art Lab, London, 23 November
2022  Malmö Artists' Book Biennial. Konsthall, Malmö, 8 May
2022  Writing Water | Reading Rain. Bower Ashton Studios, UWE Bristol, 23–24 April
2021  Slade 150 Symposium Series: Spineless Wonders, 11 November

Events organised

2025  Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books. Organiser, the Warburg Institute, London, 30 May
2018–21  Artists' Books Now. Organising committee, the British Library
2019  British Academy Summer Showcase with Artists' Books and Medical Humanities, the British Academy, London, 21–22 June

Teaching and professional practice

2020–  Tutor, Artist Book: from Concept to Distribution, Leicester Print Workshop
2019–24  Tutor, Writing Ecologies, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2017–22  Organising committee, Artists' Books Initiative, the British Library
2015–20  Co-curator, Artists' Books and Medical Humanities, University of Kent
2015–20  Associate Lecturer, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
2010–18  Founder and lead artist, Collective Investigations

Selected artists' book fairs

Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London – annually
2024  Bristol Artists Book Event, Bower Ashton, 29–30 June
2024  Malmö Artists' Book Fair, Victoria Theatre, May
2024  Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Kunsthall, April
2024  Open M Art Book Fair, MEWS, Luxelakes, Chengdu, March
2023  Vienna Art Book Fair, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 20–22 October
2023  Athens Art Book Fair, Athens Conservatoire, 6–8 October
2023  The WIELS Art Book Fair, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, 18–19 March
2023  PAGES: Reset, with whnicPRESS. University of Leeds, 17–18 March
2022  I Never Read, Art Book Fair. Kaserne Basel, 15–18 June
2022  Malmö Artists' Book Biennial Fair, 6–8 May
2022  Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Festival. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 29 April – 1 May
2020  The Society of Bookbinders Fair, London, 25 April
2019  Dublin Art Book Fair. Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 21 November – 1 December
2019  London Art Book Fair, as Egidija & George. Whitechapel Gallery, London, 5–8 September

Contact

mail@egidija.com
Contact Galerie DRUCK & BUCH for currently available works for sale.