Veronica Vickery’s materials-led practice fuses and layers sculpture, ceramics, painting, performance and sound, and has recently expanded to include spinning and weaving. Materials-led and site-responsive, she works with foraged, discarded, wasted and gifted materials.
Drawing from personal narratives, Vickery’s work explores materially embodied human experiences and processes of fragility, loss, repair and growth, alongside precarious ecologies. These encounters are often approached in a deeply embodied, wet and muddy way. Central to her practice is an understanding of breakdown — of matter, objects and more-than-human ecologies — as a necessary precursor to ongoing processes of care and repair, re-formation and life-making.
She has an upcoming solo exhibition at D-Unit, Bristol in June 2026. An installation of her work was included in the exhibition Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City, curated by Lubaina Himid, Royal West of England Academy (2023) and a group show at Eastside projects (2024). She curated the group show ECO|CON (The Launderette and a second iteration at Spike Island, 2023); and co-produced Isn’t Bite Also Touch? an event on contagion and desire with artist-writer Jack Young (Spike Island, 2022). 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.
Donate
