We’re delighted to welcome Victoria Crowe RSA into the galleries to talk about her work in our new exhibition, Elemental.
Victoria will discuss the time she spent on her residency at the Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, where she explored the island’s landscape, stripping the elements back to land, sky, sea, and vast open horizons, to observe more completely the ideas of changing light and atmosphere.
Victoria will speak on her residency, and the new works created for Elemental in conversation with art historian, curator, and museum director Sir John Leighton. We look forward to hearing her expand on her experience and creative process.
Victoria Crowe RSA is an artist whose practice spans painting, drawing and printmaking, with each discipline informing the other. The inner structure of Crowe's work is often concerned with memory and association, timelessness and fragility, moving towards a metaphysical understanding of the nature of experience, as well as nature itself, real and transmuted. Victoria Crowe's work is held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Museums of Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Danish National Portrait Gallery, Chatsworth House and the Royal Academy.
Sir John Leighton is a British art historian, curator and museum director. He was Director of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from 1997 until 2006, and has been Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland since 2006.
