Vicky Edwards

About the artist

Paintings

Prints

Vicky Edwards

Painter, Printmaker

London
United Kingdom

Statement

My recent work has become increasingly abstract and more symbolic, moving away from the directly figurative. My personal engagement with the work through the physical act of making is very important – the silent act of making and gesturing, being slow to manufacture through the etching process, a juxtaposition of process and chance.
I use grounds, aquatint, open bite and drypoint ,alongside scraping and polishing, to anchor my thoughts; trying to reflect a silent inner landscape of something frail and enduring through visual experimentation – using the images stillness and silence to elucidate what is within.
Current work includes etching, paintings on linen, ink on paper and the making of artist’s books.

Biography

1985-6

Norwich School of Art

1987-90

Central St. Martin’s College of Art, BA Hons Fine Art (first class)

1990-92

Slade School of Fine Art, Postgraduate diploma in printmaking

Vicky has shown in group shows internationally since 1989

She has work held in the collections of – The Victoria and Albert Museum, University College London. Cohn and Wolf. Delta Films. 4AD / Vaughan Oliver and in private collections in the UK and abroad.

Publications

Dec 2005

Ham and High newspaper

April 2005

Ham and High newspaper

April 20th 1993

Independent newspaper

1993

British Artist’s Books – facing the page – pub. Estamp

Exhibition History

2006		Crouch End Open Studios. London.
2006		Crouch End Library Gallery. London.
2005		Aspects of Print. Swiss Cottage. London.
2005		Crouch End Open Studios. London.
2005		John Jones Gallery. London.
2004		Brighton Art Fair.
2004		Printed on the Mind. Morley Gallery. London.
2002		Dusk til Dawn. Stephen Lawrence Gallery. London.
2002		Fresh Art. Business Design Centre. London.
2002		National Printmaking Exhibition. Mall Gallery. London.
1994		Printmaking Exhibition. Whiteley’s. London.
1993		Exhibition of Artist’s Books. Victoria and Albert Museum. London.
1993		Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Sotheby’s. London.
1992		Amadora Printmaking Biennale.
1992		Selected works. Drew Gallery. Canterbury.
1992		Bankside Open. London.
1991		Sunderland Open Exhibition.
1991		Janus Avison Gallery.London.
1991		University of Hawaii.
1991		United Nations Show.
1991		The Slade in Macau. China.
1990		Blenheim gallery. London.
1990		Tabernacle gallery. London.
1990		Tomorrow’s Artist’s Today. Osborne Gallery. London.
1989		Cohn and Wolf exhibition. Lethaby Gallery. London.
Collections
.		Victoria and Albert Museum. University College London. Cohn and Wolf. Delta Films. Vaughan Oliver / 4AD. Various private collections internationally.

Statement

Biography

Exhibition History