Lucas’s work deals with how nature is constructed, and how the concept of nature in turn constructs our political and social imaginary, with a particular focus on how gender is produced, reinforced and can be undermined through the self-representation of women within the landscape.
-Lauren Velvick
Victoria Lucas (b.1982, UK) is an artist and researcher based in the North of England. Recent projects include the curation of PostNatures at Graves Gallery, Sheffield, which explores the connections that exist between the histories of women’s bodies and natural landscapes as colonised subjects, and questions how they might be reclaimed in a post-natural context. She is one third of the art collective Heavy Water, alongside Maud Haya-Baviera and Joanna Whittle, a project that draws from archives and collections to create artworks that reclaim narratives in a contemporary context. She has recently exhibited her work with Site Gallery, Sheffield (2021), Freelands Foundation, London (2022), and The Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield (2021). She is 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire and part-time PhD Candidate in the Art, Design and Media Research Centre at the Sheffield Hallam University.
Featured Artworks:
GreenScreen I & II, 2018. Collage /// Self-Destructive Acts, 2023. Jesmonite Sculpture (ouroboros) /// Slow Time, 2022. Single Channel Digital Video, 7:26 /// Coalesce, Oval Video Projection, 2021, 10:00 ///Aggregated Form, 2020. Large scale photograph on fabric, plaster cast /// Entanglement, Artist Video, 2021, 09:00 /// The Strata of Things (I, II, III), 2021. Photographic print on hand-cut vinyl, steel, painted wooden plinth, 190 x 120 x 35cm /// Formations I - VII, Limited Edition Photographic Series (1/30), 2020, 420 x 594mm ///where rock and hard place meet, 2018. Digital photograph printed on fabric, looped video with audio, quarried rock. 6m x 2m /// Conversing With Tiresias, 2018. Single Channel Video with Plant, 05:56 /// Lay of the Land (and other such myths), 2016-17. Multi-Media Installation
Exhibition Documentation: Jules Lister