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Eileen Botsford is a New Media Public Artist living between London and Athens and working internationally.

She holds a BAhons in Public Art and Design from Chelsea College of Art & Design and an MFA in Theatre Design from The Slade School of Fine Art.

Eileen recently exhibited in the Florence Biennale 2009 representing Greece, and just finished her latest liveart.gr project on Syros, Greece. Her next liveart.gr project will take place in February 2010, in Athens, Greece.

Eileen works as a New Media Public Artist, on vast spectrum of on-site and on-line projects and commissions, and has exhibited on an international basis in group and solo exhibitions. Public Art projects include the ‘Public Screen’ at the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 07, new media window displays such ones for Vivienne Westwood at Selfridges, London, and New Media Video displays for the play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ by T.S. Elliot, St. Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London.

Her latest solo exhibitions include The Preretrospcetive Exhibition, Booze Cooperativa, Athens, September 2008 and The Bodymode Show, The Pearlfisher Gallery, London, May 2007. Her latest group exhibitions include at 'First Person' Wexter Center for the Arts, Columbus OH, USA June 2008, ‘Fragile’ at The Loop Art Fair, Barcelona, May 2008, The Van Brunt Gallery, N.Y, October 2007 and ‘Heterotopias’, Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art September 2007.

Past exhibitions include Art Athens 2005, Cyber Arts 2005, Ars Electronica, Austria, Art Interactive for ‘New Media / New Work’ 2006 MA, USA, and ‘Beautiful Decay’ 2006 Loose Projects, Sydney, Australia.

Within 2006 & 2007, her award winning piece ‘Cycle’ was broadcasted internationally on SKY TV seven times.

Eileen has accepted a number of sponsorships for her work including those from the DESTE Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and the GNTO. Eileen has also won 2nd Best Experimental Video Award 05 at Strange Screen VI, Salonica Cinema Museum.

Publications and interviews include Vogue Hellas , Gynaika Magazine, ‘Greek Modern Pioneers 06’ The British Council, Kathimerini Newspaper and various online publications.

Recent inspirational talks of hers include Panorama at Zappeion Megaro, Athens, where Eileen Botsford talked about 'the ten golden rules of freelancing' and the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Science and Art”, Athens, Eugenidis Foundation where she talked about 'The use of the natural human form and its existence through digital formats and mass exposure methods, for presentation within the public domain'.

Other of Eileen’s projects include being the Founder and Creative Director of EBnefsi Design www.ebnefsi.com - new media art collaborative, www.tosoma.org which is working in partnership with Nomadic Collaborations in which she also the Net Art Director.

Eileen's work is part of private collections internationally and can also be viewed in collections open to the public, such as the ACG Art Collection and The Syros Center of Contemporary Art Collection.

Please visit her news page for current projects.