Highlights
AA2A Artists Access to Art College / 2023-2024. Lithography and textiles research at Print Lab UCLan
ACE DYCP / 2022-2023. Funded drawing development + professional practice mentoring with Mark Devereux and Sarah Casey
QEST Ernesto Illy Foundation Scholar / 2022-2023. Stone lithography + mentoring with Serena Smith
Society of Dyers and Colourists fund / 2021. Foundation in Textile Colouration Chemistry
MA Fashion and Textile Design / Exceptional Distinction / 2018. Nottingham Trent University
Textile Society Postgraduate Bursary Winner / 2018
Artist - Maker Collaboration Second Sitters Upholstery / 2018. Hackney + National Centre for Craft & Design Sleaford
Vicky works within the dynamic of the landscape, creating drawings on location that ‘evolve in a physical space over differing scales’. The judges were impressed with Vicky’s more recent shift in focus – taking her cloth into site-specific wastelands, engaging with the local materials, earth and minerals, and developing a personal response to place through drawing and colour interpretation on cloth
*Textile Society UK - postgraduate bursary winner
I became aware of Vicky’s work when we she answered an Open Call for the Second Sitters touring exhibition, Upholstery: Evolution to Revolution, generously supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, at The National Centre for Craft and Design. Although Vicky is not an upholsterer her bold expressive and beautiful prints were like nothing we had seen before and what really stood out was her willingness and openness to collaborate and to think outside of her own practise in order to explore new ways of working.
*Second Sitters Hackney
I decided to collaborate personally with Vicky having started a project commemorating the emancipation of women, I knew working together could bring an unknown depth to the works. During our time working together it became evident to me that Vicky has a wide-ranging skill set, she is a brilliant interpreter of colour, aesthetics and print and is not afraid to try new materials and concepts in her works. She pushed me to think differently about my own work and how to best present the concepts that we explored together in a way that both recognised and celebrated our skill sets. Her technical knowledge, which she is happy to share, is second to none and her passion and willingness to experiment is evident.
*Jude Dennis - exhibit for ‘Evolution to Revolution’ NCCD Sleaford
This body of work is highly contextualised and researched through continual reflective practice supporting an innovative approach to ideas and development. The work provides and already has provided opportunity for entrepreneurship within a number of fields; exhibitions, collaborations and competition.
*K. Dickinson - Wasteland Project
