Victoria Burgher
My practice-based, interdisciplinary PhD research at the University of Westminster 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.
Education
2012-14 MA Art & Politics (Distinction) Goldsmiths College, University of London
2008-09 PG Diploma Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London
2005-06 BA Hons Ceramics (First Class) University of Westminster, London
2003-05 Diploma Fine and Applied Arts (Distinction) London Metropolitan University
Selected exhibitions
2018
Bow Open, selected by Mark Titchner, Nunnery Gallery, London
This Temporary Matter, Fringe Arts Bath Festival
A Month at the Venice Biennale: Work by British Council Fellows, RAW Lab, London
2017
Käfig, Hackney Wick, London
A.P.T. Creekside Open, London
2016
Commission for Great Fire 350 celebrations, All Hallows by the Tower, London
HouseRules, Canary Wharf, Art Licks, London
Bow Open, Nunnery Gallery, London
White Gold, Galerie de Stoker, Amsterdam
2015
HouseRules, Art Licks, London
Ceramics Open, Salisbury Art Centre
Office Sessions IV, Soho, London
Dis/placed, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2014
HouseRules, Hampstead Heath, London
HouseRules, Anchorage House, London
2013
Passion for Freedom, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
residencySHOT, Glogauair, Berlin
2012
Passion for Freedom, Unit 24 Gallery, London
Heygate Estate, London
four play, Arthub Gallery, London
Tradition and Innovation, CAA Gallery, London
My Place on the Isle, Mica Gallery, London
2011
Urban Dialogues, Red Gallery, London (curator)
Passion for Freedom, Unit 24 Gallery, London
2010
again, again, again, Solo Show, Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace, London
Michael Landy : Art Bin, South London Gallery
2009
UpSTARTS Festival, London
Artifice, BASH Studios, London
Intersections, The Nunnery Gallery, London
Diverse Practices, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London
2008
RBS Bursary Award Exhibition, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Life & Liberty, Westbourne Grove Church Art Space, London
Figure, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford
2007
Images of the Divine, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham
Playthings, Stroud House Gallery
Sugar Coated Tears, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
M.A.D., Dray Walk Gallery, London
Dispensed With, Kingsgate Gallery, London
Life Cycles, The Crypt, St Pancras Church, London
2006
Szpilman Award participant
Step Even Closer, London Gallery West
Figuring Narratives, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2005
Group Show, Richard Dennis Gallery, London
Snowcase*5, Fold Gallery, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
Awards
2017 a•n Professional Development Bursary
2017 British Council Venice Fellowship
2016 Open Society Foundations Fellowship
2016 Arts Council/British Council Artists' International Development Fund Grant Award
2013 Passion for Freedom Ambassador Award
2010 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust Award
2010 Urban Dialogues Award
2008 RBS Bursary Award, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Press
a•n Q&A with Laura Purseglove, project curator, Art and Christianity Enquiry Trust, 2017
The Spectator Nov 2013