Verity-Jane Keefe

Verity-Jane Keefe is a visual artist, from a Fine Art Sculpture background working with moving image, text, archives, video, installation, performance, social structures and sculpture to explore the often-complex relationships between power, people and place. She is interested in the role of the artist within society, urban regeneration and places in flux and what experiential practice could be, when working with existing and invisible communities.

She has been developing new models of practice within municipal, collaborative contexts – following long term residency approaches that produce outcomes exploring the politics of participation.

Her practice takes many forms, developed from working with a variety of collaborators and participants. The process always starts with lurking, place and archives, the incidental, the overheard, the conversation, the observed.

She has recently delivered public commissions with Towner Gallery (Eastbourne), Barts Hospital AiR and was Wheatley Fellow with Eastside Projects 2023 – 2025 (Birmingham), is Artist in Residence for UCL to mark the bicentenary year in 2026 and has recently completed a Pre-Doc programme with ZHdK (Zurich).

She is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins where she teaches on the BA Fine Art and was formerly a Unit Master at the Architectural Association.
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She was on the winning team for the 2022 Davidson Prize with Charles Holland Architects, Joseph Henry and the Quality of Life Foundation. The Moorings Sociable Club, for which VJK was Lead Artist on the Design Team was shortlisted for the 2022 AJ Architecture Awards in the Community and Faith category.