Education
2012 PGCHE (Academic & Creative Practices) University College Falmouth (current)
2010 MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice (distinction), University College Falmouth
Exhibitions
2012 WELD hosted by CAZ, basement The Exchange, Penzance (upcoming)
2011 Atkinson Gallery, 'MA & other post-graduates', survey show, Stree
2010 MA Exhibition University College Falmouth
2009 'Encounters', BOSarts, Treveal Farm Zennor (NT)
2008 'Out of Bounds' The Exchange, Penzance
2008 Installation & performative events at BOS-08, BOSarts
2008 Artist-in-Residence, National Trust in West Penwith
2007 Invigorate Seminar, ALIAS, The Exchange (Newlyn Art Gallery)
2007 Just Re-Located (Heritage Centre 2025) Installation/performance, Count House, Botallack (National Trust)
Awards & competitions
2010 Sandra Blow award, University College Falmouth
2010 John Moores 2010 (Shortlisted stage 1)
2008 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, R&D award (National Trust residency)
Teaching
Jan 2011 to date Associate Lecturer BA Theatre: Performance, University College Falmouth
2010
Visiting Lecturer MA Fine Art: Contempoarary Practices, University College Falmouth
Also a qualified teacher with experience working across primary and secondary school age groups.
Curatorial and Project Management
2009 - date Co-Director BOSarts
2009 Initiated & project managing This Weekend…? BOSarts
2008 BOS-08, BOSarts
2007 ‘Just Re-Located (Heritage Centre 2025)’, Botallack, More Cornwall
Research Groups
2011 – date LAND2 research network, UWE
2011 – date Articulating Space research group University College Falmouth
Conferences
2011 Cornwall Workshop selected participant (international/regional dialogue over 6 days in
response to Lucy Lippard’s 2010 intervention in Falmouth - ‘Imagine Being Here Now’)
2010 Creativity and Place University of Exeter (paper)
2010 The Falmouth Convention (invited ‘artist expert’, Assembly fieldtrip)
Published Writing
2010 Springs Farm: Peopled Place http://veronicavickery.co.uk/extras/web%20version%20essay.pdf
2009 Contextually Sited Art Practice in Rural Areas a-n http://www.a-n.co.uk/nan/article/506255
Statement
Immersed in place, living and working in West Cornwall, I became aware people feel like ‘they are living in a museum’.
And so started a fascination with the overlooked, the discarded, the forgotten. The processes involved in painting, the life of the material itself became a metaphor to deal with our shifting relationships to time and place, to those allusive memories that one moment we can catch and the next are gone only to re-emerge in some other shape at some other moment in time, telling a different story of place to the one of tin mines and bottled heritage.
Recent work includes a series of large-scale paintings working from an abandoned farm that explore a story of place in which dwelling hovers just outside of the frame. Trace, residue, gesture, stain, the vibration of colour and perspective, the unexpected and the incongruous, have become tools to excavate memory, absence, loosing and finding, the poetic, the abstract. My work also includes curating BOSarts projects in collaboration with the National Trust in West Cornwall, and teaching performance (site-based practices) at University College Falmouth.
My current enquiry is looking at the cultural potential of reworking a broadly understood painting practice in the context of recent advances in site-specific performance and geographical landscape studies. In what ways could the processes of painting become metaphor for revealing the hidden, overlooked, compromised, obscured, denied or refined in relation to site? How can painting function in a way that reflects dynamic peopled processes of fluidity and change that are involved in the construction of landscapes?
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