About

Navine G. Dossos, b.1982 (she/her)

I am a visual artist living and working on the island of Aegina in Greece. I have lived in Greece for almost ten years, with five years spent in Athens and five years now on Aegina. My work is primarily as a mural painter, but in recent years I have expanded into other areas of applied craft of which textiles has become an important part. The work I make is often created through community workshops and I am interested in ways that artworks can be disseminated for free to the public, or benefit the public realm in a meaningful way.

I have a background and training in Islamic Art, but over the past decade my work has transitioned from a preoccupation with what it means to live in the age of The War on Terror, towards a profound engagement with ecology and how art can be in service of addressing our relationship to the natural world. I am also working more and more as part of the artist collective Vessel, that I co-founded with my partner James Bridle in 2020.

OMBRIOS TEXTILES is a part of my broader practice, designing and producing limited edition textiles that reflect the life I live on Aegina in Greece. I consider my work as an artist to be holistic - including my domestic life, collective life, community life and work life. All connect and interact, and have value and meaning as part of a wider whole that aims to value the everday, the local and the reality of one's bioregion.

Each pattern is based on a fleeting moment while in conversation, watching children, gardening, building. I make small temporary designs from the matter around me, but none of these could make an actual textile. Rather they are almost like journaling, collaging elements of everyday life into something that can find permanence when transformed into a textile.