Approved: 24.07.2007

Victoria Lucas

Artist, Lecturer / academic, Researcher

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Approved: 24.07.2007

Victoria Lucas (b.1982, UK) lives and works in Sheffield, UK. Recent artworks reference the language of quarrying and material extraction, as creative processes deconstruct and reconstitute ravaged landscapes and notions of female experience. Photogrammetry, video editing and 3D modelling techniques are combined with sculptural, sound and photographic processes to remap, embody and entangle the material strata of landscapes. The artist’s voice becomes central to these works, as women’s experiences are symbolically dug out of the land through narration and performed action. These visual methods of remapping speak of a posthuman re-connection with the organic - as a reclamation of female subjectivity - away from the dominating hold of extractive capitalism. This project also forms part of Lucas’ current practice-led PhD enquiry at the Culture & Creativity Research Institute, which she is undertaking part-time at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Artist Statement

Victoria Lucas (b.1982, UK) lives and works in Sheffield, UK. Recent artworks reference the language of quarrying and material extraction, as creative processes deconstruct and reconstitute ravaged landscapes and notions of female experience. Photogrammetry, video editing and 3D modelling techniques are combined with sculptural, sound and photographic processes to remap, embody and entangle the material strata of landscapes. The artist’s voice becomes central to these works, as women’s experiences are symbolically dug out of the land through narration and performed action. These visual methods of remapping speak of a posthuman re-connection with the organic - as a reclamation of female subjectivity - away from the dominating hold of extractive capitalism. This project also forms part of Lucas’ current practice-led PhD enquiry at the Culture & Creativity Research Institute, which she is undertaking part-time at Sheffield Hallam University.

Lucas won the SOLO award™ in 2016, and has artworks in public and private collections, such as the Tate Archive, MOMA New York, V&A museum and The Media Math collection. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (2017); with Chiara Williams Contemporary at London Art Fair (2017); Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth (2018); Threshold, Leeds and HOME, Manchester (2017). She has exhibited in group shows at Site Gallery, Sheffield (2021); The Hepworth Wakefield (2010, 2021); Freelands Foundation, London (2022) and Caraboo Projects, Bristol (2019). Commissions include a permanent touchscreen artwork for the NHS Wilberforce Health Centre in Hull (2011); a neon artwork for the Leeds Arts University collection (2012); a video artwork for the National Portrait Gallery, London (2014); and an outdoor sculpture series for Threshold, Leeds (2021). She holds a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Norwich University of the Arts (2004) and a MFA in Fine Art from The University of Leeds (2007). 

Victoria is a 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has recently completed a two-year artist in residence programme at Site Gallery as part of Platform20 and the Freelands Artist Programme.

CV & Education

Relevant Education

Sheffield Hallam University, PhD Fine Art by Practice, 2016 –
University of Leeds, MFA Fine Art, 2007
Norwich School of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art (Sculpture), 2004

Selected Solo Exhibitions

where rock and hard place meet, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2018
where rock and hard place meet, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, 2018
Lay of the Land (and other such myths), Airspace Gallery, Stoke, May 2017
Lay of the Land (and other such myths), HOME, Manchester, Jan 2017
Lay of the Land (and other such myths), CWCA, London Art Fair, London, Jan 2017
After, PERICLO, Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham, Wales, 2016
Interruptions, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, USA, 2013
As it Transpired, Untitled Gallery, Manchester, UK, 2012
Work in Progress, Lumen Screening Lab, Leeds, UK, 2009
Archive Books, Clarke Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Selected Group exhibitions

At the Violet Hour, curated by Chiara Williams & Shaun Stamp, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate 2018
Ritual Perception, The Front, New Orleans, USA 2018
See What I See, curated by Nicola Dale, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester 2018
Memory Land, curated by Federica Casati, B#S Gallery, Treviso, Italy 2017
TRADE, curated by Swap Editions, hosted by SET, Bermondsey, London 2017
Formation, Curated by SITE Gallery for Abandon Normal Devices Festival 2017
Fabric of the Particular, Curated by Michelle Chong, Elephant, Los Angeles, USA, 2017 Organic Memory, Ca' dei ricchi, Treviso, Italy, 2017
LAND, Synhavn Station, Copenhagen, 2017
Everything Flows, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 2017
Embodied Memory, Villa Manin, Italy, 2017
Belonging|s, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk, Denmark, 2017
Lands of Memory, Museo Della Battaglia, Vittorio Veneto, Italy, 2016
B#SIDE WAR Vol.II, Venice and the Cormons, Italy, 2016
SLUICE Art Fair, Bloc Projects, OXO Tower Wharf, Southbank, London, UK, 2015
Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say, Lights of Soho Gallery, London, 2015
Peak Experiences, Shangri-La, Joshua Tree, California, USA, 2015
The Art of Wandering, CurateSheffield, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, UK, 2015
Artists’ Moving Image, In association with Mexico, Hyde Park Cinema, Leeds, 2015
Still City, Cupola Gallery at The Blue Moon, Sheffield, UK, 2015
Redbridge and the First World War, Redbridge Museum, London, UK, 2014
Flis Holland and Victoria Lucas, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, UK, 2014
What is Your Favourite Idea?, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, UK, 2014
Deadpan Exchange VIII, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, UK, 2014
Re:Location, Studentski Kulturni Centar, Novi Sad, Serbia, UK, 2013
Pravidelná linka Topolcany – Sheffield, Nastupiste, Topolcany, Slovakia, 2013
KALEID 2013, The Art Academy, London, UK, 2013
That Ever Increasing Distance, Supercollider, Blackpool, UK, 2013
Wildness Between the Lines, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK, 2013
Lines of Conflict, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, UK, 2012
Revisiting Utopia, Pad Gallery, Preston, UK, 2012
Peering Sideways, Project Space Leeds, UK, 2011
Follow-ed (after hokusai), Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 2011
The Örebro International Videoart Festival, Örebro, Sweden, 2010
The Swap Project, The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK, 2010
Philosophy in Practise, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Holland, 2010
Act Up Hellas, Athen’s Central Metro Station, Athens, Greece, 2009
Roaming, 91mq Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Inkubator 2, The DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, UK, 2009
Signals Through the Flame, PHB Friedrichshöhe Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Athens Film Festival, Athens, Greece, 2009
Stomper Shorts, Bethnal Green WMC, London, UK, 2009
More Things In Heaven…, Durham Cathedral, Durham, UK, 2008
From Book to Book, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, 2008
Special Collections, University Gallery, University of Leeds, UK, 2007
S1 Salon ‘I Seek You’, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, 2007
Testbed, Leeds Met Gallery, UK, 2007

Selected Curated Projects

In the City, Hanover Project, Preston, UK, 2014
Deadpan Exchange VIII, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, Mexico, 2014
OPEN, The Art House, Wakefield, UK, 2013
The Everyday, Film Screening, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK, 2012
Welcome to the Real World, Project Space Leeds, UK, 2011
Promised Land, The Berlin Office, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Collect, Westgate Studios Project Space, Wakefield, UK, 2010
Instinct, The Moor, Sheffield, UK, 2010
Traces (Friday 13th), 20qm Berlin, Germany, 2009
A night of Artist’s Video, Lagari, Berlin, Germany, 2009
Geerten Verheus, 20qm, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany, 2009
I am the Space Where I am, The Berlin Office, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Separations, 67-71 Bath Road, Holbeck, Leeds, UK, 2008

Selected Residencies

Haarlem Artspace Residency, Wirksworth, 2018
At the Violet Hour Art Residency, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate 2018
Vapaan Taiteen Tila Residency, Helsinki, Finland, 2014
Castle Market Art Residency, Art Sheffield 2013
Digital Art Labs Residency, In collaboration with the NHS, Hull, UK, 2010
Artist in Residence, Lumen Arts, Leeds, UK, 2009
Artist in Residence, The Berlin Office, Berlin, Germany, 2008 – 2009

Selected Grants

Grants for the Arts Award, Performing Gender, Arts Council England, 2017
Grants for the Arts Award, Lay of the Land, Arts Council England, 2016
Funded Sabbatical Leave, University of Central Lancashire, Sept 2015 – Jan 2016
ADP Research Funding, University of Central Lancashire, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
a-n Collaborations Bursary, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, a-n.co.uk, 2014
Grant for the Arts Award, Castle Market Project, Arts Council Yorkshire, 2013
Grants for the Arts Award, 12 MONTHS OF NEON LOVE, Arts Council Yorkshire, 2011
Arts Council Yorkshire Delegation to Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2009
Professional Practise Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2006
Grants for the Arts Award, Professional Development, Arts Council, 2005

Selected Awards

SOLO Award™, Chiara Williams Contemporary, London, 2016
Shortlist and Commendation, Neo:artprize, Bolton, UK, 2013
AXIS MA Stars award, University of Leeds, 2007
Commendation in Critical Studies, Norwich School of Art and Design, 2004
Noel Spencer Prize for Life Figure, Norwich School of Art and Design, 2004
Capita Award, Norwich School of Art and Design, 2003
Phelan Conan Award, Wakefield College, 2001

Selected Talks / Presentations

Art Symposium, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 2018
Performance & Culture: Cities, Embodiments, Technologies Conference, University of Malta 2018
Everything Flows - Peter Martin and Victoria Lucas. Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK 2017
Overwhelming Imaginations Conference, Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2016
Female video artists and the war, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy, 2016
San Francisco State University, California, 2015
Practising Place, 99 Mary Street, Sheffield, UK, 2014
Staffordshire University, UK, 2013
Blackpool and Fylde College, Blackpool, UK, 2012
Coventry University, Coventry, 2012
University of Leeds, UK, 2012

Selected Commissions

where rock and hard place meet: Commissioned exhibition, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, 2018
Spectre: Video Commission, Vespertine in association with York Archaeological Trust, 2015
Conflict: Video Commission, National Portrait Gallery, London 2014
Leeds Canvas Documentary Film Commission, Leeds, UK, 2012
Quiet Dust: Neon Commission, Leeds Arts University, Leeds UK, 2012
Interruptions: Bloc Billboard Commission, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK, 2012
Poke: Permanent Touchscreen Commission, Wilberforce Health Centre, Hull, 2011
Failed Attempts: Conjunction Biennial, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-trent, 2011
Commissioned Selector and Writer for the 2009 MAstars Award – Axis

Membership

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2018 -  
Represented Artist, Mark Devereux Projects 2016 - 2017
Board Director, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK, 2014 – 2018
Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, 2013 – 2018
Axisweb Artist, 2007 –
Member of The Berlin Office – International Residency Programme, 2009 – 2010