Artist statement
Concepts
Victoria Rance’s work is concerned with the exploration of human behaviour and the boundaries between the self and others. It investigates human interaction within different physical and social environments. Her work creates a sense of place, encouraging people to become more aware of their body in its physical environment. The sculptures can often be entered or worn either actually or in the imagination.
Influences
Performance, collaboration, sculpture to wear, body, buildings, architecture.
Career path
After finishing her degree in Fine Art at Newcastle University in 1983, Victoria Rance spent a year sculpting in Mexico and Bolivia. Since then she has exhibited her work extensively in group shows in Britain and recently Holland, Germany, Japan and Turkey, with recent solo shows in 2011 and 2012. She has also shown over several years at Sculpture at Goodwood and New Art Centre, Roche Court.
In the last few years her work has been shown at venues including The Jerwood Gallery, The Menier Gallery, ArtSway, and Canary Wharf and has featured in many catalogues and publications.
In 2001, as a curator Victoria brought together the work of four artists examining the theme of grief and death. The exhibition, at St John’s Church Waterloo, was supported by a grant from London Arts with a catalogue essay by Sacha Craddock.
In 2003 Victoria was winner of The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, the resulting solo show was at The Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London, September – October 2004.
Victoria’s work has been bought by many including The London School of Economics, The Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street, Banque AIG and Hammerson plc.
Recent commissions include artworks for Housing 21, Anderssonhall, Mumford Mill Deptford, St Andrew's Waterloo, St Laurence Catford, and The Warneford Hopsital Oxford.
Qualifications and training
- 2009 MA in Fine Art with Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert), Kingston University, London
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Medusa and Perseus, Chalabi Gallery, Istanbul
- 2010 Invisible Victoria Rance and Clare Whistler, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Hastings St Leonards
- 2004 The Mark Tanner Award Solo Exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
- 2002 The Office, The Atrium Gallery, Price Waterhouse Coopers, London
- 2001 The Holy Fool, St Mary Woolnoth, London
- 2000 Spire, The Economist Plaza
- 1999 Magdalena' performance collaboration with Clare Whistler, Deptford X Festival
- 1998 Sculpture, Smith Slein Beecham, Harlow, Essex
Group exhibitions
- 2013 London Group Centenary, Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire
- 2013 The London Group Centenary Exhibition, Pitzhangar Manor Gallery, London
- 2012 Sequoia Tees Amsterdam, Peter Klashorst Gallery, Spuistraat 219, Amsterdam Netherlands
- 2012 Free Zone/Çanakkale, film screening, Erkan Yavuz Experimental Art Studio, Çanakkale Turkey
- 2012 Folklore short screening with Teststrip, APT Gallery, Deptford London
- 2012 London Group,, The Cello Factory, London
- 2012 Tee Party Berlin,, The Wye, Skalitzer Straße, Berlin
- 2012 On My Behalf,, The Cumberland, London
- 2012 Territories and Boundaries, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
- 2012 Delineation, APT Gallery,, Deptford
- 2011 Fast Forward, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
- 2011 Contrary Voices, Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul
- 2011 Design and Print Now, Bearspace, SW1 Gallery, London
- 2011 Invaluable, APT Gallery, Deptford
- 2011 Place Called, Pop Up Cinema, Westway, London
- 2011 Artbosphorus, Fulya, Istanbul
- 2011 Pro-jection, APT Gallery, Deptford
- 2011 Crafty Animators, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
- 2010 Bounty, Morley Gallery, London
- 2010 Meeting Point, Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul
- 2010 Made Up Realities, Transformations, 2nd Canakkale Biennal, Turkey
- 2010 Exteriority, SummariaLunn Gallery, London
- 2010 Sculpture in Paradise, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester
- 2010 London Group Annual, The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Street, Waterloo (more info)
- 2010 The London Group Annual, The Cello Factory Waterloo, Waterloo London
- 2010 Print Now, Bear Space Gallery, London Art Fair 2010
- 2009 Art and Dis-grace, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower London
- 2009 South East, APT Gallery, Deptford
- 2009 Eastern Approaches, UH Galleries at Hatfield House, Herts
- 2009 Drawing Act and Artefact, Morley Gallery, London
- 2009 Stand Alone, The Cello Factory, Waterloo London
- 2008 Concrete Dreams, APT Gallery, London
- 2008 London Group, Menier Gallery, London
- 2007 London Group Open, Menier Gallery, London
- 2007 Bounty, APT Gallery, Deptford London
- 2007 Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London
- 2007 ArtSway Open, ArtSway, New Forest Hampshire
- 2006 Steel, Canary Wharf, Lobby, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 (more info)
- 2006 Fe205, APT Gallery, Deptford London (more info)
- 2006 Heavenly Bodies, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Burghley House Stamford
- 2006 Spitalfields Public Art Project, Bishop's Square, Spitalfields London
- 2005 Fe2O5, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre
- 2005 'Creek', River and Rowing Museum, Henley
- 2004 Outdoor Habitats, Museum of Domestic Architecture, London
- 2004 Fantastic Plastics, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
- 2003 Yokohama International Art Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan
- 2003 Creek, APT & Gallery, London; River and Rowing Museum, Henley (until 2005)
- 2002 Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
- 2002 Art in the Garden, Chelsea Physic Garden
- 2002 APT Gallery, Deptford, London
- 2001 Contemporary Sculpture, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
- 2001 Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
- 2001 Deptford X Open
- 2001 Dead Happy, St John's Waterloo, with Stuart Croft, Chris Marshall, Mayuko Hayakana
- 2000 And Ladders, St John's, Waterloo, London
- 2000 Bucolic, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
- 1999 Goodwood Drawing and Models Collection, Holland and Germany
- 1999 The Vessel, Portsmouth Cathedral
- 1998 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London
- 1998 A Labour of Love, Goodwood Drawing Collection, Pallant House, Chichester
- 1998 20th Century Sculpture, Millfield, Somerset
- 1998 Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood, Sussex
- 1997 London School of Economics, London
- 1997 Art at 100, Hammerson Plc, 100 Park Lane, London
- 1996 The Spirit in Art, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Hampshire
- 1993 New Art Centre at Roche Court, East Winterslow, Wiltshire
Public commissions
- 2008 Bridge, Warneford Hospital Oxford, Oxford
- 2008 Comforter, St Laurence, Catford London
- 2006 Interior sculpture, exterior sculpture and stained glass, St Andrew's Church, Short Street, Waterloo, London (more info)
Corporate commissions
- 2004 Wheat Spire, Mumford Mill, Deptford London (more info)
- 2003 'Seed', Private company, Victoria London
- 2002 Deptford Star, Housing 21, Deptford London (more info)
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2003 The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
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