Damaris Athene
Damaris Athene's transdisciplinary practice centres on the posthuman and the ways in which digital technology mediates embodied experience, shaping our perception of bodily materiality. Through an exploration of feminist posthuman theory, she reexamines hierarchies in a post-anthropocentric world, blurring the borders between humans and more-than-humans. Interested in what embodied experience can communicate when language fails us, her work rejects binaries and inhabits liminal space, slipping between the real/unreal, and swimming through permeable boundaries between bodies, the organic/synthetic, the digital/physical, and 2D/3D space.
Damaris Athene (b. 1992, Bristol) graduated from MA Ceramics & Glass at the Royal College of Art (2024, Marit Rausing Scholarship), MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2023, Leverhulme Scholarship) and BA(Hons) Painting at Camberwell College of Arts (2015). Solo exhibitions include: Undercurrents, SLQS Gallery, London (2025); Women in Art Fair, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); 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: Who Runs the World, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London (2025); MEGA Art Fair, SLQS Gallery, Milan, Italy (2025); In/Visible: The Changing Shape of Womanhood, Galerie de l’Est, Compiègne, France (2025); In Loving Memory, Guts Gallery Project Space, London (2024); Unveiling Abstractions, Hypha HQ, London (2024); Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award, Saatchi Gallery, London (2023); Adjacent Colours, D Contemporary, London, UK (2023); current/s, MeetFrida at PHOTOPIA, Hamburg, Germany (2023); BEYOND IMAGE, MeetFrida at Triennial Der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany (2022); A BODY: FIGURE AND FLESH, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Warmth, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee, USA (2022). Athene is a winner of the Gilbert Bayes Award (2026), won the CGLAS Prize for Outstanding MA Fine Art Exhibition (2023), and received a CuratorSpace Bursary (2021).