Vicky Price

I explore visual dialogues between people and landscape, through drawings made on location, sometimes using found geological materials. In my studio I develop screen printing processes to build textile surfaces in varying scales as an expressive tool, creating physical weight and transparent delicacy to create spaces and installed environments for an interactive viewer experience. I play with cloth structure and material innovation that responds to a place, often using industrial-influenced interpretations and collections of found materials, transforming them as powders and liquids into large-scale drawings, prints and textile sculpture with a contemporary craft-like maker's attention to quality and heritage traditions. I have a deep interest in science and colour and I studied textile chemistry with the Society of Dyers and Colourists.

I’ve produced large-scale print works for research, projects and galleries. I often work collaboratively, with other makers and artists in upholstery, film-making and fashion, most notably showcasing exhibits at The National Centre for Craft with Second Sitters, Hackney. In 2018 I was awarded a UK Textile Society Postgraduate Bursary for eco-print developments using recovered large-format digital inks and landfill silk alongside my MA in Textile Innovation ‘wasteland’ project. I have continued to develop my core project called ‘drawing in a three-dimensional world’ through Arts Council England DYCP funding (drawing directly onto the Cotton Famine Road, Rochdale) and a QEST scholarship to study lithography at Leicester Print Workshop. In 2023-24 I was artist in residence through AA2A at UCLan where I developed graphite screen prints onto silk, using offset lithography, to explore their electrical currency. 

Most recently I have collaborated with photographer Sam Binstead to create a short Super8 film using graphite printed textiles to ‘unmask’ my neurodiversity and the relationships I have to working large-scale on locations, this time on Pennine moorland. I also joined Art Lab Contemporary Print at University of Central Lancashire for a year to expand lithography printmaking through funding from GM Artist Access Fund, which will run until November 2025. This is creating extra visibility and opportunities to exhibit at the Woolwich Print exhibition and collaborate with Tracy Hill at UCLan on a research project. 

In 2025-2026 I have received ACE Lottery funding to work on my self-developed creative project Story Veil: Unheard Female Voices on Domestic Abuse, working with an all-female creative team to work with and support 5 women from Rochdale will establish a testbed for co-creating with  & offering creative, conversational, reflective space for women who have experienced domestic abuse. This project started on 03/02/25 and will culminate with an exhibition in Rochdale in April 2026 with match funding from Rochdale Borough Culture Network. 

The public exhibition, workshops & future exhibitions will amplify marginalised voices & open-up conversations on future positive empowerment in the Rochdale & Greater Manchester area. Through co-creation of images, design and pattern-making on walks & in the artist’s studio, the cloaks, photo shoot & an exploration in performance & documentation, the project explores the intersection of diverse personal identities that have shared experiences in a rural location adjacent to post-industrial town, inviting exhibition viewers to engage deeply with the stories & emotions conveyed.

The project is also match-funded by The British Textile Biennale and the Story Veils will be exhibited with BTB in 2027. Further onwards, I’m hoping for this project to be re-commissioned on request - with one request in Bury Greater Manchester. 

I work from my studio in Linthwaite Huddersfield, where I also lead workshops and professional development courses in contemporary screen print methods.