About Vicki (age 56)
Vicky graduated with a degree in Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art as a mature student in 2003, after a career in community video production. Since then she has balanced working part-time as a community gardener, maintaining her practice as an artist, and looking after her daughter who was born in 2004. Vicky has had exhibitions and residencies throughout Scotland as well as in England and Italy. Her art practice uses a variety of media, including textiles, sculpture, performance, video, and sound and she often uses found natural materials such as soil, wool, wood, plants, and water to explore themes of the body in the landscape, and our relationship with the natural world. Vicki has outdoor work commissioned by the Woodlands Trust, on display at Loch Arkaig Community Forest and made using felled beech. She also has papier-mache body casts at the Never-Ending Glen in Kelbourn commissioned by Kelbourn Arts.
Vicki has increasingly been working with ceramics, and made porcelain wearable lichen following a residency at Marchmont House, and, ceramic seaweed following a snorkeling residency with Argyll Hope Spot. She recently joined the G20 artist collective in 2023 and exhibited along the canal at Claypits Nature Reserve and at the Trongate 103 gallery where she exhibited Fallopia Japonica a clay uterus (fired and unfired respectively) made in response to the presence of Japanese Knotweed in the local area.
Bursary Summary
This bursary will allow me to gain mentorship and technical support from Govanhill Baths Ceramics where I will experiment with locally sourced wild clay. It will give me the time and space to use this new material which will hopefully help me to develop a more materials focussed practice.
