The Strata of Things (I, II, III), 2021
Photographic print on hand-cut vinyl, steel, painted wooden plinth
190 x 120 x 35cm
‘Victoria Lucas has produced a series of sculptures that work with the materiality of photographic imagery, and the aesthetics and utopian vision of billboards, to de-construct and reform an old rural quarry in the urban landscape of Burley, Leeds. No longer in use, and overgrown by the matriarchal mosses and other vegetation, The Strata of Things transports fragments of this quarry to Threshold. A reminder that the fabric of the red brick and stone houses in Leeds, originates from the earth.
Engaging with the quarry as a site of extraction, The Strata of Things has formed through a process of digital and physical manipulation of material and images. The laboured repetition of cutting into the imagery has become a re-creation of the act of carving into rock, or the building up of sediment throughout the slow time of stone’. - Julia McKinlay
A limited edition sculpture and publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition and can be purchased online. Images below.
The Strata of Things is curated by Julia McKinlay.
Images: Jules Lister.
A Quarry, 2021
Victoria Lucas’s new wall based sculpture edition is now available to purchase through Threshold Editions. An edition of 10, each sculpture has been hand cut by Lucas to interrupt our view of the quarry and mirror the repetetive action of carving into rock and the slow building up of sedimentary layers.
Dimensions: 12.75 x 20 x 1-3cm
Materials: Hand-cut Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Edition Size: 10
Price: £85 including postage and packaging*
The edition is signed on the reverse and comes with a certificate of authenticity and a The Strata of Things visual essay with signed risograph print Ancestor.
The Strata of Things Publication.
This visual essay has been written by Julia McKinlay to accompany Victoria Lucas’s exhibition The Strata of Things at Threshold. Informed by a series of studio visits and conversations with the artist, the visual essay gives an insight into Lucas’s practice and how she has approached making a new body of work for the unique context of the urban garden at Threshold.
The publication includes a signed, limited edition two colour risograph print.
Book dimensions: 21 x 14.8cm
Risograph dimensions: 16.3 x 13cm
Materials: 16 page lazer printed booklet, two-colour risograph print on 160gsm acid free paper
Edition Size: 100