Veronica Vickery’s materials-led practice fuses and layers sculpture, ceramics, painting, performance and most recently weaving. Working with foraged, discarded, waste and gifted materials and objects often sourced from the volatile river environment where she lives on a boat, she explores the tension between materially embodied processes of fragility, loss, repair and growth within processes of ecological breakdown — a precursor to all ongoing life-forming processes of repair and re-formation.. She explores environments in which human experiences of vulnerability, grief and loss find echo in more-than-human ecologies, and which she encounters in a deeply embodied wet and muddy kind of way.
An installation of her work was included the exhibition Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, curated by Lubaina Himid, Royal West of England Academy (2023). Other recent exhibitions and projects include taking part in the Members Show at Eastside projects (2024), curating a group collaboration ECO|CON (2023); co-producing Isn’t Bite Also Touch?, an event on contagion and desire (with artist-writer Jack Young, Spike Island, 2022); and BRISopoly, a large-scale site-specific installation for Centre of Gravity, Old Soap Factory (Bristol, 2020). Recent support includes an a-n bursary (2024); Arts Council DYCP (2022/3); Ideas Exchange funding from The Brigstow Institute, University of Bristol and a WEVAA R&D bursary.
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