8th September - 26th November
Biography
Victoria Malcolm happened to be born in Tunisia, North Africa while her Scots father was serving as a diplomat.Her Pretoria-born mother returned to live in Capetown in the late 60s, bringing Victoria from London to school at Rustenburg Junior and High. A regular pupil at the Frank Joubert, she left South Africa in '74 to study painting at Hammersmith College of Art, where the emphasis was on observational drawing. Victoria moved to Wales in the 80s and developed her drawing practice whilst studying colour and abstraction with the Welsh landscape painter Mary Lloyd Jones. Her work was first selected for the National Eisteddfod in 1997, followed by a solo show , an installation of paintings in 360 degrees of vista from a nearby highpoint, at Oriel Myrddin Regional Gallery in Carmarthen in 2002. Wanting to extend and refresh her practice by returning to higher studies, Victoria graduated with a 1st class BA(Hons) in 2009, winning the Glamorgan University Student Art Purchase Prize award and being selected again for the National Eisteddfod 2010, shortly before this Greatmore residency.
Her current work returns to figuration based on family album and related photographic imagery, specifically connected to her South African background. This residency will be her first sustained working period in Capetown for over 35 years and will she hopes it will provide a rich archive of research material investigating the myriad of human micro-narratives that shape her lifestory.Victoria intends to work with documentation in photography and film both found and generated and is particularly interested to collaborate with photojournalists during the residency but has an interest in performance development. Her formative years in South African largely formed her political instincts; a driving force in activities to do with equality and cooperation. Victoria is a founder and director of an artist-led gallery in her hometown Carmarthen and recently ran 2 workshops on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Young Brits at Art Award.
Self funded
