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Victoria Burgher

London
My work as an artist, researcher and educator is rooted in craft processes and focuses on a conceptual use of colonial commodities to challenge whitewashed narratives of empire as antiracist praxis.
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My current interdisciplinary research uses porcelain to interrogate ideological and material whiteness from an explicitly anti-racist position. My practice is largely sculptural, underpinned by thorough contextual research and sensitive response – to spaces, situations, objects and contexts. Commodities of colonialism are used to highlight the legacy of imperial exploitation on our contemporary world. A sense of place and personal identity are engrained in this ‘decolonial’ approach to making. 

 

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Empire England

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