Based at APT Studios, Deptford, 2003/4 winner of The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture, Victoria Rance graduated with a BA Honours in Fine Art from Newcastle University (1983) and an MA in Fine Art with PGcert in HE from Kingston University (2009) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a member of The London Group.
Series of work include: Priestess of the Sun, a new cult which acknowledges the power of the sun over all human life, 12,000 Grandmothers a film and installation looking back to the beginning of Homo sapiens, Thorness and the Green Man films, drawings, sculptures, paintings and textiles on the fight to prevent the breakdown of the natural world as the planet heats up; The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon allegorical tableaux dealing with political power and hierarchies using human and animal form; Sculpture to wear create a sheltering skin that protects or alters the sense of self, provoking ambivalent responses in the wearer and viewer; their forms suggest a usefulness or functionality; Otherworld small pewter sculptures and drawings about the magical, mythological relationships between humans, animals and nature; Spaces For … interactive sculptures exploring how psychic and physical space is perceived and inhabited; I Wish is an ongoing project in which Rance makes a talismanic object in response to a one to one conversation about a wish.
Awards
2014 Deptford X Award
2011 European Cultural Foundation for Residency at 5533 Istanbul
2003-4 The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture
2001 Japan 2001 for ‘Dead Happy’
2001 Arts Council London for ‘Dead Happy’
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Solo/Two person Exhibitions
2026 Landscapes and Otherworlds with Alex Pemberton, Heckmann Design Studio, London
2025 Priestess of the Sun Cable Depot Sofia Bulgaria
2022 Firebird, Platform Projects, with Cable Depot, Athens, Greece
2022 Creek Dreams, with Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Seager Gallery, Deptford, London
2021 In Real Life Cable Depot Woolwich London
2020 Inhabit, Small House Gallery online
2019 Otherworld, The White Box Gallery, Blackheath London
2017 The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon, The Cello Factory London
2016 Fasnacht as part of Deptford X, APT Live and Art Licks, London
2015 I Wish with Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network, Deptford X, London
2014 I Wish the film Deptford X Fringe (prize winner)
2013 I Wish Deptford X Fringe, London
2013 The Sleep of Reason Victoria Rance & Sylvia Lüdtke BBK Osnabrück, Germany
2012 Medusa Stories with Ruken Aslan, Chalabi Gallery Istanbul
2010 Invisible with Clare Whistler The Lucy Bell Gallery Hastings St Leonards
2004 The Mark Tanner Award Exhibition, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London
2002 The Office, Atrium Gallery PricewaterhouseCoopers
2001 The Holy Fool, St Mary Woolnoth London
2000 Spire, The Economist Plaza, St James, London
1998 Victoria Rance Sculpture, SmithKlein Beecham Harlow
1997 Annunciation Sculptures and Drawings, St John’s Waterloo, London
1988 The Lancaster Arts Centre Wycombe Abbey
1987 The Orangery Holland Park London
1986 Drawings of a Cellist, Wigmore Hall, London
1986 London Zoo, Regent’s Park