Irene Albino
Educator, graphic designer
Contact ︎︎︎ ︎

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Trained as a ︎︎︎ ︎ in Rome, Italy, and as a Graphic Designer in Greece and the UK, currently an Associate Lecturer for ︎︎︎ ︎ UAL in London and a designer for ︎︎︎ ︎

My practice operates in the intersection of
queer theory, performative making and interdisciplinary artistic research
︎︎︎ ︎ with a focus
on crafts and traditional knowledge production
in an effor to understand the world through making and creative translations. ︎︎︎ ︎

In the last years, I have been interested in expanding the discussion of hybrid knowledge production between textiles, creative computing, and the Graphic Design field, through the ideation of ︎︎︎ ︎
collaborative interdisciplinary workshops
that investigate what graphic design can borrow from and lend to other disciplines, in what has often proven to be an inspirational exchange.

Currently (2025) completing an MRes on Textiles and Visual Literacy at the ︎︎︎ ︎

Lectures/ Talks

> Text and Techne
Textile poetics, Poetic textiles
Trinity College Dublin, International Society for Inter-medial Studies, June 2023

>KnitWorks, a symposium
— Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, UK, May 2022

>Visual Thinking: Thinking in Circles
— Hertfordshire University, UK, Nov 2022

>Ornament as Identity
— Hertfordshire University, UK, Nov 2022

>De-Code Gender. A knitted Perspective.
Presentation of research and process of </unravel;>, International Conference of ‘Interart / Intermedia Experimentation in Italy through the Ages’,
—April 12th 2019, Royal Holloway University, London.

>Exploring ‘conventions’ in design.
Visiting Practioner Talk, as part of Corrrective Central Saint Martins
—February 2019

>Whose History?
Visiting Practitioner Talk,
presentation of work as part of Corrrective Collective, Camberwell College of Arts
—February 2019

>The Digital in our practices. Visiting Practitioner Talk, presentation of </unravel;> at Foundation Course Central Saint Martins,
—February 2019

>Digital Catapult, UAL, presentation of </unravel;>, London, UK
—July 2018

Exhibitions

> London Design Festival: presenting Jhuley Lal: Crafting the Contemporary, UK, Sept 2024

>Jhuley Lal: Crafting the contemporary
—Mahatta Palace, Karachi, Pakistan, May 2024

>Censurae
— Galleria 291 EST, Rome, Italy, 2023

>KnitWorks, Symposium and Exhibition
— Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, UK, Nov-May 2022

>Tate Exchange,
Avant-Garde Women, Activism & Dissent, — Tate Modern, London, UK, May 2019

>British Library Late,
Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition — British Library, London, May 2019

>Decriminalizing the Ornament,
— Cambridge, UK, November 2018

>Corrrective, a collective exhibition, Lethaby Gallery,
— London, UK Nov 2018 - Jan 2019

>London Design Festival,
Lethaby Gallery,
— London UK, 15 Sept- 27 Oct 2018

>MAKE,
Lethaby Gallery,
— London, UK, 21-24 July 2018

>Poster Parade,
Transport London Museum,
— London, UK, May-Sept 2018

>Nasty Women North East,
Praxis Gallery
— Newcastle, UK, September 2018

>I Don’t Know Her Work But I Know Her Name, Window Gallery,
—CSM, London, UK, Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

Workshops

>KnitScripts and Binary Weaving —University of the Creative Arts, UK, 2022

>From Fear to Joy - interventions for creative blocks — Central Saint Martins, UK, 2022, 2023

>SkillZ - a workshop on teaching and learning — Central Saint Martins, UAL, UK, 2022

>Hackin’ The Knit Workshop:
in collaboration with Eva Sajovic
— Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, UK, Nov-May 2022

>Visual Trouble, Representation in the Media in collaboration with Elizabeth Critchlow
— Hertfordshire University, UK, Jan 2020

>Inclusive VS Exclusive: A Workshop,
in collaboration with Sofia Fotaki
— Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Jan 2020

>How to Hack the Brother, 2: Electroknitting Workshop, — Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Jan 2020

>IdentiZine,
in collaboration with Alva Skog and Anoushka Khandwala, Year 1, BA Graphic Design
— Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Oct 2020

>FrankenType,
in collaboration with Ellen Jonsson and Elizabeth Critchlow, Year 1, BA Graphic Design
— Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Oct 2020

>How to Hack the Brother: Electroknitting Workshop, — Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Oct 2018