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"Rance’s steel sculpture plays on tensions between
old and new. Its simple geometric form is essentially modernist,
yet strongly evokes a much earlier age with a sense of spirituality
that is at odds with its modern environment"
Gavin Street in a review of The Economist exhibition www.londonart.co.uk
After finishing her degree at Newcastle University in 1983, Victoria
Rance spent a year sculpting in Mexico and Bolivia. Since then she
has exhibited her work extensively in group shows in Britain and
recently Holland and Germany and Japan, with recent solo shows in
2002 and 2004.
In 2001, as a curator Victoria brought together the work of four
artists examining the theme of grief and death. The exhibition,
at St John's Church Waterloo, was supported by a grant from London
Arts with a catalogue essay by Sacha Craddock.
In 2003 Victoria was winner of The Mark Tanner Award for Sculpture,
the resulting solo show was at The Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton, London,
September - October 2004.
In London Victoria's work has been bought by many including The
London School of Economics, The Institute of Child Health, Great
Ormond Street, Banque AIG (Curzon Street), Hammerson plc and The
London Borough of Lewisham.
Public commissions include Faircross Arches for The Faircross Community
Complex Barking, 'Incarnation' for the Catholic Church at RAF Halton
Hertfordshire, 'Deptford Star' for Housing 21, 'Seed' for Anderssonhall
and most recently 'Wheat Spire' for Mumford Mill Deptford.
Victoria Rance's work is concerned with the exploration of space
and human behaviour. It investigates human interaction within different
physical and social environments. She creates new forms and ideas
from ancient technologies and civilisations. Her work creates a
sense of place, encouraging people to become more aware of their
physical environment.
Her sculptures refer to shelters, buildings and places that in
the past have held human beings safe from the outside world and
have been part of a symbolic frame work. They can be physically
entered, and stepping into them is fundamental to experiencing them.
Rance's concern with society, culture and the natural environment
is manifest in her method of working and the sculptural forms that
she makes. Her sculptural language is both multicultural and humanist.
Using contemporary materials her work frequently echoes the ancient
and iconic forms that offered protection in civilisations throughout
the world.
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