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A fusion of art and crafting processes and precarious environments, encountered in a deeply embodied wet and muddy kind of way. Site in development.

BEYOND THE RUINS

In progress

Gifted homespun, knarled rusty boat steel

LIVING IN THE RUINS

The Corridor, Spike Island, 2025

Mending my collection of old trolleys from the harbourmaster's skip

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THE RIVER DROWNED

Eastside Projects, 2024

Clay foraged from Purton Ships Graveyard and scrap boat steel.

THE RIVER DROWNED

Spike Island Open Studios, 2024

Projection, plastic ducks, stacked trolleys, detritus, estuarine foliage

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LIFE WITHOUT AIR

Bank of Bristol Avon (boat moorings), 2023, 2024

Raku-like firing in a kiln made from salvaged materials - barrel and our old narrowboat chimney.

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

Commissioning Bay, Spike Island, 2022

A slowly pulsating machine made from end-of-life equipment and materials

STUDIOS PROJECT

The Corridor, Spike Island, 2024

An all-studios collaboration

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

The Corridor, Spike Island, 2023

Game of ecological consequences

LIFE WITHOUT AIR

The Garage, Bristol, 2023

Game of ecological consequences with artists Helen Acklam, Katy Connor, Matt Davies, Laura Philips, Vicky Smith, Jack Young.

RESEARCH & COLLABORATION

Spike Island Cafe, 2023

Co-led event with writer, artist and producer Jack Young (WEVAA Curatorial fellow, 2022) at the invitation of Spike Island Bristol. Part of the WEVAA programme.

RESEARCH & COLLABORATION

Online, Spike Island Open Studios 2021

water | mud | care
A film collaboration between myself and artist Katy Connor, exploring our practices in conversation with curator Nella Aarne.

THE APPLE TREE

I was gifted the apple tree. Planted above the pram, its boughs flicker the sky....

Exploratory text, 2025

PRACTICES OF HOME BEYOND PLACE ATTACHMENT

Place has meant home for me, perhaps even a yearning for home — frequent house and
school moves as a child had left me feeling un-homed, out of place....

Vickery, V. (2020), 'Practices of home beyond place attachment's Routledge Handbook on Place, ed Tim Edensor, Una Kothari, Ares Kaladides, pp. 664 - 677.

GEOLOGIC LANDSCAPE

This chapter brings a geologically focussed inflection to landscape studies. Using a non-representational approach to practice, informed by geo-aesthetics and feminist materialisms, I reflect on a performance in a stream....

Vickery V. (2019) 'Geologic Landscape: A Performance and a Wrecked Mobile Phone' in Boyd C.,
Edwardes C. (eds) Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33-51.

BEYOND PAINTING, BEYOND LANDSCAPE

In this article I reflect on an art practice-based project that I have been working on in response to a particular landscape in the far west of Cornwall that was subject to a violent storm and flash flood in 2009....

Vickery, V (2015) Beyond Painting, Beyond Landscape: Working Beyond the Frame to Unsettle Representations of Landscape, GeoHumanities, 1:2, 321-344

HELLO

I'm always up for new conversations, if you'd like to come to the studio please do get in touch.

Studio 98,
Spike Island Artspace
Bristol, BS1 6UX, UK

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