VERONICA VICKERY

Exhibitions, Awards

2008 The Bosigran Project - context specific work at Bosigran Farm, Zennor in September, exhibition at Newlyn Art Gallery next year
2008 R&D, Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England 2007 Invigorate Seminar, ALIAS, The Exchange (Newlyn Art Gallery)
2007 Spontaneous Combustion 2 Mariners Gallery St Ives 2007 Just Re-Located (Heritage Centre 2025)MoreCornwall
2006 Santa’s Sack Group Show Redruth
2006 Spontaneous Combustion 1 Trelowarren
2006 Cornwall Open Studios
2005 ‘Dispelling the Myth’ Creative Skills
1998 ‘Beginnings and Endings’Somerset Art Week

Residencies

2008 The Bosigran Project, National Trust in West Penwith

Curatorial

2008 The Bosigran Project
2007 ‘Just Re-Located (Heritage Centre 2025)MoreCornwall 1998 ‘Museum of the Future’ artist-led community installation SAW

Design Commissions

2007 ‘Leaf Vision’ (MCTi Community Action Plan) Lands End Area Forum
2006-7 ‘St Just Between the Lines’ community collaborative publication

Project management & work in schools

2007 – 08 The Bosigran Project, The National Trust, West Penwith
2005 – 07 St Just Living History Project Lands End Area Forum
2006 – 07 Cornwall Visual Arts Forum founding member
2004 – 06 Crit Group (‘Speakeasy’) initiator/coordinator
2006      Artist in school Region of Culture Cornwall Arts Marketing

Bibliography

Artist Newsletter ‘More Cornwall’, commissioned review by Megan Wakefield (August 2007 edition page 7)

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An artist who works with local communities engaged in processes of change.

* Operating in the space of relationship, of meeting, of conversation

* Fusing installation, performance and image making

* Collaboratively negotiating meaning and issues of value within a rural context

It is a practice rooted in the social, in people and story, memory and dreams, which is increasingly questioning assumptions that underlie the contemporary political hegemony