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What are my childhood influences that sparked my creativity
An edited conversation with the head curator Joseph Constable from the De La Warr Pavillon, Joseph Constable Portrait photo by Elizabeth Roberts |
V i c t o r i a A l b u q u e r q u e
B. 1969
Victoria is mainly a two dimensional visual artist based in Sussex. She draws on her training in architecture to create paintings that explore form, space and colour, moving into the realm of abstraction. Through meticulous observation, she looks to distil the essence of the subjects, whether in portraiture, still life or landscape. By stripping away noise and detail, Victoria invites the viewer to find their own connection with the painting, the subject and themselves.
Her work is exhibited and sold in joint and solo shows; galleries, both public and private, locally and internationally.
Accepted works: Royal Academy Summer exhibitions, ING Discerning Eye and Art Fund museum of the year 2020 Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, Jackson's Art Prize and Bexhill Museum.
B. 1969
Victoria is mainly a two dimensional visual artist based in Sussex. She draws on her training in architecture to create paintings that explore form, space and colour, moving into the realm of abstraction. Through meticulous observation, she looks to distil the essence of the subjects, whether in portraiture, still life or landscape. By stripping away noise and detail, Victoria invites the viewer to find their own connection with the painting, the subject and themselves.
Her work is exhibited and sold in joint and solo shows; galleries, both public and private, locally and internationally.
Accepted works: Royal Academy Summer exhibitions, ING Discerning Eye and Art Fund museum of the year 2020 Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, Jackson's Art Prize and Bexhill Museum.
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A b o u t t h e w o r k
When I am asked what is my work about, my reply is that it is about balance. I am continually drawing in information to make a balanced and harmonious look of life; it is these observations or moments that I use to create my work. Composition is vital for me to find balance in my paintings, looking at an everyday object, person or landscape and setting out the constraints of the canvas, encouraging you to draw your eyes across the surface, paying particular attention to what happens at the edges of the work. Colour is a feeder to the soul and the same subject painted with different colours gives such a different story. I use colour to harmonies what ever I am painting. I spend focused time observing, allowing myself to stop long enough to master what colours are reflected and hidden. My most recent work translates the energy of the subject through abstracting, exploring the depth of colours, inspired by artists; David Hockney, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Richard Diebenkorn and Euan Uglow, who I look to, to gain a better understand about colour, proportion and space within a painting. |
A b o u t t h e I D E N T I T Y S e r i e s
Victoria is currently exploring themes of identity: what it is to be a woman, a mother, a sister, a daughter, a homeowner, a home-maker. What do these titles mean and how do they manifest themselves in our lives? Through an earlier training in psychology and psychotherapy Victoria explores what it means to have a sense of self, and how it manifests itself in the world we create around us. These observations touch not only on issues of self-understanding but also heritage and history, and the incomplete and subtle ways in which knowledge is handed down from one generation to the next. In Victoria’s work this sometimes appears (or disappears), leading to questions about whether the image is representing something from current reality: observation – or from personal or hand-me-down (collective) memory: imagination. |
Exhibition Private View Towner Gallery 2017
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Exhibitions
Solo 2024 Gun Hill Gallery – Landscape of Identity 2023 Squisito - Pairs of Pears 2018 Ashdown Gallery - Landscapes, guest sculptor Salvatore Cuschera 2017 Modern in the Country – Journey abstracts and Mapping Works 2013 Modern in the Country - mixed Joint 2024 Chiddingly Festival 2024 Brighton Art Fair - Corn Exchange 2024 Jackson's Art Prize - London - Longlist 2024 Royal Academy - London - Summer Exhibition Finalist 2023 Royal Academy - London - Summer Exhibition Finalist 2023 Needlemakers – Lewes East Sussex – Artwave 2021 Royal Academy - London - Summer Exhibition Room IX curated Vanessa Jackson and Eva Rothschild 2020 ING Discerning Eye – chosen by Jo Baring 2018 The Old Forge Open House - Artwave 2017 Towner Gallery – Eastbourne East Sussex – Summer Show 2017 Keizer Gallery – Lewes East Sussex - Artwave 2017 Royal Academy - London - Summer Exhibition Finalist 2016 Towner Gallery – Eastbourne East Sussex – Summer Show 2016 Belmore – Hampshire - Everything Small 2016 Keizer Gallery – Lewes East Sussex - Artwave 2016 Brighton Open - Timed Works 2016 Royal Academy - London - Summer Exhibition Finalist 2015 Towner Gallery – Eastbourne East Sussex – Summer Show 2014 Keizer Gallery – Lewes East Sussex - Artwave 2014 Birley Center - Eastbourne East Sussex – invited guest artist 2014 Modern in the Country – Halland East Sussex – show with Fianne Stanford and Janine Shute 2012 Artist Lewes Foundary United – Lewes East Sussex 2012 Coastal Currents – Bexhill on Sea East Sussex – with Felicity Truscot 2012 Bexhill Museum – Bexhill on Sea East Sussex - art mapping of Bexhill Born London 1969 Education Cardiff University – Cardiff Wales - Architecture BSc (Hons) 1993 Kent Institute of Art and Design – Canterbury Kent - BArch 1996 Kent Institute of Art and Design – Canterbury Kent - RIBA ARB 1997 Qualified architect Wealden Institute - Crowborough East Sussex - Counselling Diploma 2008 |
Water Shadow 2017 - SOLD