Victoria Rance
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Based at APT Studios in Deptford London UK, Victoria Rance was the 2003-4 winner of The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture. She is concerned with the exploration of social and human behaviour, encouraging awareness of both inner psychic space and our relationships with each other and our environment. Her work identifies with both the outer wildlife, and our inner wildness and animal nature. Series of works include:
· Sculptural tableaux dealing with political power and hierarchies and the rise of the Trickster in contemporary culture overshadowing liberal values (2017 onwards). The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon is based on a talismanic object in the Pitt Rivers collection which makes the rider invisible at night in order to kill enemies. The Apology is about power relationships and secret weapons. Marion is about how women gained power in the middle ages through visions.
· Sculpture to Wear: wearable sculptures and spaces to inhabit either physically or in the imagination about how we protect our inner lives. Caterpillars draws on Batesian mimicry, Tabard the spiky defence of porcupines and SOS the armour of armadillos. Interactions with the work are recorded using photography and animations. Monkey Mask is an animation about an aging half human half primate.
· Otherworld (2015 onwards) small work about the magical, mythological relationships between humans, animals and nature.
· I Wish (2013 onwards) in which Victoria makes a talismanic object for people in response to a one to one conversation. She looks at the power of magical thinking in times of desperation and has been commissioned to do the project in schools, with refugees and migrants, and in a hospital.
Solo exhibitions
2021 in Real Life Cable Depot, Woolwich, London
2019 - Otherworld The White Box Gallery Blackheath
2017 - The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon, The Cello Factory, Waterloo London
2016 - Fasnacht the film Deptford X
2015 - I Wish collaboration with Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network Deptford X
2014 - I Wish the film Deptford X
2013 - The Sleep of Reason with Sylvia Lüdtke , BBK , Osnabrück, Germany
2013 - I Wish Deptford X
2012 - Medusa and Perseus, Chalabi Gallery, Istanbul
2010 - Invisible Victoria Rance and Clare Whistler, The Lucy Bell Gallery, Hastings St Leonards
2004 - The Mark Tanner Award Solo Exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
2002 - The Office, The Atrium Gallery, Price Waterhouse Coopers, London
2001 - The Holy Fool, St Mary Woolnoth, London
2000 - Spire, The Economist Plaza
Awards and residencies
2017 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich residency (I Wish)
2014 Deptford X Prize for I Wish - the film
2011 European Cultural Foundation Travel Award Residency 'Space for a Woman: Walking Through the City' 5533 Istanbul
2003-4 The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture
2003 'Passage in the Forest' Residency Yokohama Japan
2001 Japan 2001 for ‘Dead Happy’ as curator
2001 London Arts Council for ‘Dead Happy’ as curator
Group exhibitions
2020 - Wish You/We Were Here/There... an online show with The London Group
2020 - Hearten An Online exhibition with APT and Greenwich and Lewisham NHS Trust
2020 - 25 APT Gallery Deptford
2020 - Isolation an online show with The London Group
2020 - Swallowhead performance and installation for In the Dark Cello Factory Waterloo
2019 - Capillary Tissues perfomance APT Gallery DeptfordX
2019- Archipelago The Engine Room, Walthamstow Wetlands, London
2019 - Sleepy Head Blythe Gallery London
2019 - Drawing Distinctions Cello Factory London
2018 - The London Group at St Ives The Penwith Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2018 - Drawing Distinctions Furlong Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2018 -Good and Bad Government, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Woolwich
2017 - Down from London Linden Hall Studio Gallery Deal
2017 - Touchstone APT Gallery, Creekside, Deptford, London
2017 - Shoreham Sculpture Trail
2017 - The Mesh, Watermans Arts Centre
2017 - Personal Relations, Pulchri The Hague and Mirror Gallery Vicenza
2016 - Personal Relations, The Cello Factory Waterloo London
2016 - A Threshold, APT Gallery Deptford London
2016 - Metallic, Burghley Sculpture Garden
2016 - Sixty, Art Athina Athens Greece with Angus Huges Gallery
2016 - Fe2 16 Morley Gallery London
2015 - One Plus One Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes London
2015 - Crossing Thresholds Gallery Tettix Thessaloniki Greece
2015 - Need and Error Zsenne ArtLab Brussels
2015 - Twentieth APT Gallery London
2015 - Hundreds and Thousands Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes London
2015 - Need and Error with TestStrip APT Gallery
2015 - The Venice Biennale in London, Harts Lane Gallery, London
2015 - Yan Tesir / Side Effect, Galleri Ark Istanbul
2015 - Fasnacht in Magic Lantern Fringe Arts Bath Festival
2015 - Water Week Herstmonceux Castle
2014 - Sound and Silence with Teststip at APT Gallery
2014 - From David Bomberg to Paula Rego, Southampton City Art Gallery (co-curator & artist)
2014 - Between the Lines, Mine Sanat Gallery, Istanbul
2014 - Tipping the Line, Occupy My Time Gallery, Deptford, London
2014 - The London Group on London, The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London
2014 - Switch, Pulchri, Den Haag, Holland
2013 - Photography and Video Show Ozo Coffee House, Tophane Istanbul
2013 - 100+ The London Group at The Cello Factory
2013 - London Group Centenary , Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire
2013 - A Decade of the Mark Tanner Award , Standpoint Gallery Hoxton, London
2013 - The London Group Centenary Exhibition , Pitzhangar Manor Gallery , London
2012 - Delineation , APT Gallery, Deptford
2012 - Folklore short screening with Teststrip , APT Gallery, Deptford London
2012 - Free Zone/Çanakkale, film screening, Erkan Yavuz Experimental Art Studio, Çanakkale Turkey
2012 - London Group, The Cello Factory, London
2012 - On My Behalf, , The Cumberland, London
2012 - Sequoia Tees Amsterdam, Peter Klashorst Gallery Amsterdam
2012 - Tee Party Berlin, , The Wye, Skalitzer Straße, Berlin
2012 - Territories and Boundaries, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
2011 - Artbosphorus, Fulya , Istanbul 2011 - Contrary Voices, Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul
2011 - Crafty Animators, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2011 - Design and Print Now, Bearspace, SW1 Gallery, London
2011 - Fast Forward, Globe Gallery, Newcastle
2011 - Invaluable, APT Gallery, Deptford
2011 - Place Called, Pop Up Cinema, Westway, London
2011 - Pro-jection, APT Gallery, Deptford
2010 - Bounty, Morley Gallery, London 2010 - Exteriority, SummariaLunn Gallery, London
2010 - London Group Annual, The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Street, Waterloo
2010 - Made Up Realities, Transformations, 2nd Canakkale Biennal , Turkey
2010 - Meeting Point, Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul
2010 - Print Now, Bear Space Gallery, London Art Fair 2010
2010 - Sculpture in Paradise, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester
2010 - The London Group Annual, The Cello Factory Waterloo, Waterloo London
2009 - Art and Dis-grace, The Bargehouse, Oxo Tower London
2009 - Drawing Act and Artefact, Morley Gallery, London
2009 - Eastern Approaches, UH Galleries at Hatfield House, Herts
2009 - South East, APT Gallery, Deptford
2009 - Stand Alone, The Cello Factory, Waterloo London
2008 - Concrete Dreams, APT Gallery , London
2008 - London Group, Menier Gallery , London
2007 - ArtSway Open , ArtSway , New Forest Hampshire
2007 - Bounty, APT Gallery, Deptford London
2007 - Deep Inspiration, Jerwood Space, London
2007 - London Group Open, Menier Gallery, London
2006 - Fe205, APT Gallery, Deptford London
2006 - Heavenly Bodies, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Burghley House Stamford
2006 - Spitalfields Public Art Project, Bishop's Square, Spitalfields London
2006 - Steel, Canary Wharf, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf London
2005 - 'Creek', River and Rowing Museum, Henley
2005 - Fe2O5, Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre
2004 - Fantastic Plastics, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2004 - Outdoor Habitats, Museum of Domestic Architecture, London
2003 - Creek, APT & Gallery, London;
2003 - Yokohama International Art Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan
2002 - APT Gallery, Deptford, London
2002 - Art in the Garden, Chelsea Physic Garden
2002 - Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
2001 - Contemporary Sculpture, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2001 - Dead Happy, St John's Waterloo, with Stuart Croft, Chris Marshall, Mayuko Hayakana
2001 - Deptford X Open 2001 - Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
2000 - And Ladders, St John's, Waterloo, London
2000 - Bucolic, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
1999 - Goodwood Drawing and Models Collection, Holland and Germany
1999 - The Vessel, Portsmouth Cathedral 1998 - 20th Century Sculpture, Millfield, Somerset
1998 - A Labour of Love, Goodwood Drawing Collection, Pallant House, Chichester
1998 - Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London
1998 - 2001 Sculpture at Goodwood, Goodwood, Sussex (Cass Sculpture)
1997 - Art at 100, Hammerson Plc, 100 Park Lane, London
1997 - London School of Economics, London
1996 - The Spirit in Art, Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Hampshire
1993 - 2004 New Art Centre at Roche Court, East Winterslow, Wiltshire Public
Public and commissioned art includes
2017 I Wish for Queen Elizabeth Hospital Greenwich and Woolwich (community engagement project)
2017 Memorial Sculpture St Laurence Catford
2016 I Wish for Invicta School Deptford
2015 I Wish for The Women's Group of Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Centre for Deptford X (community engagement project)
2014 I Wish for Montbelle School Greenwich with Art Reach (community engagement project)
2008 Bridge Sculpture for Warneford Psychiatric Hospital Oxford with design workshops
2008 Comforter Sculpture for St Laurence Church Catford
2005-6 Interior and exterior sculptures and five stained glass windows for St Andrews, Waterloo
2004 Wheat Spire Sculpture for Mumford Mill, Deptford
2000 Spire Sculpture at The Economist Plaza, with The Contemporary Art Society
1998 Faircross Arches, Faircross Community Complex Barking
Performance/Collaborations
2000-2018 various collaborations with Sculpture to Wear and for animations including with Ben and Becca Burns, Clare Whistler, Lydia Julian, Sophia Campeau, Cole Pemberton
2013 I Wish APT Studios (Deptford X Fringe)
2010 Embodied Emotions, with Clare Whistler, Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
2008 Wild dreams, Recollected Dreams, Glyndebourne East Sussex
2007 The Coal Notebooks, with Clare Whistler (UK), Sophia Campeau (Netherlands), Alex MacInnis (USA)
2007 Wild Dreams, Glyndebourne Youth Opera, Utrecht, Holland
2005 Circulate, Bishop’s Square Spitalfields
2005 In Spitalfields, Community Cantata Spitalfields Festival
2003-4 Elemental, Glyndebourne Youth Opera
2002-3 Ancestor in the Chalk, Glyndebourne Youth Opera
2002 Beehive (video) with Clare Whistler, Chelsea Physic Garden
2001 Sea Change, with Clare Whistler, Jonathan Dove, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
2000 Beaminster Festival Bucolic and Magdalena with Clare Whistler,
2000 And Ladders, with Clare Whistler dancer/choreographer, St John’s Waterloo,
2000 Bucolic, collaboration with Clare Whistler for U3A De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
1999 Magdalena St Nicholas’s Church for Deptford X
Education
Newcastle University BA Hons Fine Art 1983
Kingston University MA Fine Art with PGCert in HE 2009
