Theodora Prassa is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Nottingham.
Her practice spans printmaking, textiles, photography, and handmade and digital collage. Through pattern, repetition, and texture, she explores themes of identity, migration, narration, and the shifting nature of meaning.
Drawing inspiration from urban forms and public spaces, Theodora creates abstract landscapes that invite multiple perspectives and interpretations.
She also carries out research that focuses on circular design, sustainability in creative practice, and the use of natural dyes as both an artistic medium and a pedagogical tool. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and engaging diverse communities through creative and accessible approaches to art and learning.
Residencies I Commissions I Awards
2025 - Selected Finalist Global Colourist Award 2025 - SDC
2023 - Shortlisted NAE Open Judges Prize, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2023 - Dizzy Ink Award Winner, Derby Print Open, Derby, UK
2022 - Commission: The Art and Poetry Project - Derby Cathedral Quarter, Artcore Gallery Project, Derby , UK
2021 - Artist in (Virtual) Residency, Celdelnord, Barcelona, SP
2021 - Commission: S.H.E.D Derby Project, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2020- Commission: Pixels project curated by Miss Dialectic as part of the Goethe-Institut's "The Disappearing Wall"
2020 - Artist in Residence, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2018 - 3rd prize short film winner in VIVA Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 - Derby Print Open, Green Doors Printmaking Studios, Derby, UK
2026 - EDITION 26: Reflections, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2025 - T Exhibition, NTU Bonington Building, Nottingham, UK
2025 - International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside gallery, London, UK
2025 - Creative Health Series, University of Loughborough, UK
2025 - PPE Reimagined, Elisabeth Garret Anderson Building, University of Worcester, UK
2024 - BACKLIT Members Show, Backlit gallery, Nottingham, UK
2023 - Derby Print Open, Green Doors Printmaking Studios, Derby, UK
2023 - NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2023 - 1922 - 2022 Exit - Way Out at Hellenic Parliament Library (former Public Tobacco Factory), Athens, GR
2022 - Creative Reactions, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2022- Abstract, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2021 - The Wrong Biennale, Pavilion 4, e-den, Curated by Ayshia Taskin
2021 - Thessaloniki Design Week, Helexpo, Thessaloniki, GR
2021 - Derby Voice, Derby Cathedral, Derby, UK, Curated by Rhiannon Jones and Daithi McMahon
2021 - Tides of the Century, Ocean Flower Island Museum in Hainan, CHI, Curated by Ilias Chatzichristodoulou, Katerina Koskina
2020- 16th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Technotribalism, Video Art, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Athens. GR
2020 - [SHIFT:ibpcpa] The Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts. Curated by Ayshia Taskin, The Wall Space Gallery, UK
2020 - Outside the Form, Fringe Arts Bath, Curated by Anthoniy Val, Bath, UK
2020 - Riotous Assembly, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2019 - New Designers, London, UK
2019 - Bonington Vitrines #12 Complaint, Curated by Bonington Student Curatorial Group, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2018 - The New New 3rd Art and Science Festival, Curated by Lydia Chatziiakovou, TIF Helexpo, Thessaloniki, GR
2018 - Ex Libris, Brachasi, Crete, GR
2017 - Good Design Greece, Athens, GR
2016 - Ode to the sea: periodic exhibition, Hellenic Foundation for Culture, Odessa, UKR
2015 - Thessaloniki = Aleksandreia, 45+4 Artistic Approaches, Cultural Centre of Vafopoulio, Thessaloniki, GR
2015- 2nd Biennial Greek - Indian Student Printmaking, Xotaris Art Forum, Archanes, Crete, GR
2014 - Periodic Exhibition,Our (?) Byzantium, 30 + 1 visual approaches, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Used Look: Performing politics, Hildesheim, GER
2014 - In Between, Metapolis, Athens, GR
Selected Screenings
2019 - Xouth Festival, Artens, Athens, GR
2019 - 1525 x Oneiroi, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
2019 - Not a Live Show, Curated by Emily Gray, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2018 - VIVA Film Festival, Sarajevo, BIH
2018 - Eye's Walk Festival, Syros , GR
2018 - SKG Bridges, Thessaloniki, GR
2017 - 60-60.network @ de-TOUR. Palais van Mieris, Amsterdam, HOL
2017 - Internet Yami-Ichi, Brussels, BEL
2017 - 57th Venice Biennale, GradCAM@Research Pavilion screenings, Venice, ITA
2016 - Ephesus Video Art, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TUR
2016 - European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, GER
2015 - Public Interrogation: Outside the White Cube, Curated by The Multiple exposure Project, Public Spaces, Metro Manila, PH
2015 - 11th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Public Space, Video Art, Curated by Eirini Olympiou, Athens, GR
Lectures I Talks I Workshops
2026 - Presenter in Conference 26TH IFFTI Annual Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
2026 - Online Session presenter, ETHO Gardening as Future Making Practice, ELIA art schools
2025 - Workshop pigment making, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham UK
2025 - Constructing Sustainable Schools, Presentation Poster, GLAD, Nottingham, UK
2025 - Tutor, LU Arts, Loughborough, UK
2025 - Eco dyes: Embedding Sustainability in Colour Education – Society of Dyers and Colourists, Bradford, UK
2025 -Tutor, Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester, UK
2025 - Presenter at ETHO Technical Community Conference Crafting the Future, Latvia, LV
2025 - Panel Speaker: NTU X Green Week Overheated Film Screening
2024 - SDC Midlands Region Annual General Meeting and Presentation Evening, Nottingham Trent University
2021 - Current - Short Course - Sustainable Textile Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2021 - 2025 - Saturday Art Club Tutor, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2021 - Guest Lecturer - School of Visual and Applied Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2021- Future Endeavours, Artcore Gallery, Derby, UK
2021 - Workshop Facilitator, Tebbs Gallery, London, UK
2016 - Workshop Facilitator at National Gallery, Annex Nafplio, GR
Education
2017- 2019 - MA (Distinction) Textile Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2011-2017 - BA -MA (Distinction) Visual and Applied Arts Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Institute of Fine Arts and Art Science, University of Hildesheim (Erasmus program) Hildesheim, GER
Scholarships
2017 - Scholarship, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017 - Erasmus Traineeship Scholarship, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, GR
2016 - Scholarship, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Greece Harvard University, Washington, US
2015 - Rewarding Scholarship, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
2014 - Erasmus Studies Scholarship, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR