Victoria Lucas is an artist who selects disused geographical sites that contain traces of human activity, sifting through their material layers and reinterpreting related archival material as artistic practice. Most recent projects have focused on post-industrial quarries and mines, and have combined photogrammetry, video editing and 3D Modelling techniques with sculptural, sounds and photographic process to generate installation-based outputs.
Recent artworks speak of intimate encounters with rock and moss that leave the material body symbiotically fluid and enmeshed with shared ancestral knowledge. Post-industrial and post-colonial landscapes and artefacts become relational subjects. Her visual methods of remapping speak of a posthuman re-connection with the organic as a reclamation of female subjectivities, away from the dominating hold of extractive capitalism.
She is a Senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire, and is undertaking a PhD at Sheffield Hallam University.
Specialist areas of interest include:
- Artistic Practice that focuses on developing new materialist / post humanist / feminist discourse
- The Absence of women’s voices in the archive, and how contemporary female experience can bring new historical insights and reveal intersectional patterns of inequality
- Collaborative practice as a sustainable way of working and a female support network (see Heavy Water Collective)
- Reclaiming subjectivities in a postnatural context
- Decolonisation through material engagements with the organic
Key projects can be found here victorialucas.co.uk