Augustus Veinoglou

Statement

Veinoglou’s work is concerned with ideas of entrapment, sanctity and melancholy as the means of instigating desire, imagination and sensuality within poetically designed space.

Veinoglou’s immersive installation work stems from the re-appropriation of energy, material and architectural elements that describe the transitory state of situations and spaces. Veinoglou explores how these elements can be re-arranged or re enacted to newly impact our experience and perception in space.

Drawing offers him the means of exploring subjects relating to his larger work whilst exploring spatiality, mechanics and visual representation of narrative based potentials.

Bio

Augustus Veinoglou is an artist, creative director and art educator. He has studied Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, Art Education at Athens School of Fine Art and Art Therapy at Queen Margaret University. He is the founder and artistic director of Snehta Residency, a project devoted on expanding artistic activity and research in the City, fostering new relationships and collaborations internally but also beyond Athens.

He was a board member of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop between 2014 - 16. He has exhibited in the Uk, Greece, Switzerland, Holland, US, Estonia, and Turkey. Residencies include: The Royal Scottish Academy in Florence, Babayan Art house, Turkey, The John Mooney foundation, Chicago, Dordtyard, Holland, Amorgos Erimia project, Greece. Colm Cillie, Convocation residency in Rassey & Glasgow. Recent participationS in exhibitions include: Nurseries of the unconscious, Yellow Brick studio & A Hollow Place, June 2019 and Still here tomorrow, by ARWORKS, SNF, June 2019.

2021 Treasure Hunt

Mouse Trap From My Little Friends

2021 plywood, paints, lacquer
9X12cm (black piece) / 8.5X7cm (mouse) / 22X9cm (tail)

H3>Mousetrap from my little friends,
Augustus Veinoglou, Athens, 1982

Abstract: The piece is a sculptural response based on the offcuts from a series of creative wood workshops aiming to acquaint elementary students with basic wood workshop techniques. The work is in response to children's efforts to make their own wooden model of a mouse with a piece of cheese and other decorative elements. Collected then assembled the work is a playful response to play and experimentation. The teacher/artist has collected the workshops leftovers (negative space) and made an assemblage that can host the cut-out shape of the abstracted model of a mouse that children got preoccupied with sanding and doing other finishes to. The mouse is here crafted as the third piece of the assemblage along with the red characteristic mouse tail. The artist playfully introduces the title mousetrap, to assert the descent of the pieces and give a playful spin to the work.

"Often my work is concerned with the reuse of energies and material elements that describe the transitory state of situations, spaces, and objects."