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Victoria Horkan
Degree: BA Hons Textile Design
University: Bretton Hall University
Graduation Year: 1999
Energetic, atmospheric and vibrant; Horkan’s abstracts are much sought after. They have the capacity to transform any interior; these paintings are substantial presences and invigorating, visceral celebrations.
“During my studies in textile design I vigorously explored the tangible, tactile qualities of unconventional materials. In my current practice, I layer plaster with thick undiluted oil paint to give rich painterly textures, which are evocative and seem fragile.
More recently the use of a raw, organic colour palette, depicting elements of movement intrigues me. My work celebrates the simplest of forms, and intends to deliver them into a contemporary age, through conveying honesty and emotion. I focus on the relationship between the ability to manoeuvre paint and the expression of fluidity and energy.
I explore flexibility and challenge the scale of how each form is depicted. Each one of my paintings takes me on journey, through admitting the accidence of some created textures, I then develop these accidents as focal points for the next piece.
The small, initially irrelevant experience, can hold the most significance. In this complex world of diversity, innovation and change sometimes the most simple and beautiful elements can go unnoticed. Exposing the subject in its most natural form has, for me, a more lasting resonance. Art should have the power to move you like music, like dance it’s a celebration be it simply of colour, form or fluidity. If it doesn’t dance for you there’s no point over analysing it, it’s either there or it isn’t."
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Selected Group Exhibitions
1) Freelance textile designer ‘Rogue’ Manchester 2002
2) Exhibited at The Great Art Fair London, 2006
3) Exhibited at The Edinburgh Art Fair, 2006
4) Exhibited in Belfast, Blue 73 Gallery, 2006
5) Commissioned by major corporate and private collectors alike, Italy, America, Denmark Canada, UK, 2007
6) Exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair London, 2007
7) Worked with art consultants in Ireland on a large solo project, 2007
8) Collection of paintings published in Interior Design Special Esquire Magazine, 2007
9) Group exhibition in Leeds, Artco 2008 displaying collections alongside pioneering British artists such as Alan Davie and Patrick Caulfield, 2008
10) Special feature on BBC1 Website 2008
11) Group exhibition, Knapp Gallery, Regents Park, London, 2008
12) Manchester Buy Art Fair, 2009
13) Group exhibition, Castletown, Isle of Man. 2009
14) Solo exhibition by appointment only, Leeds 2009
15) The Malvern Theatres, Worcestershire, 2009
16) Large scale solo project (17 commissions) for private client in Isle of Man, 2010
17) Joint exhibition, Oxmarket, Chichester, 2010
18) Solo exhibition (Movement) in Islington, London 2010
19) Solo exhibition ‘ Lagalleria Gallery’, Pall Mall, London 2010
20) Manchester Buy Art Fair, 2010
21) Joint exhibition ‘The Art Gallery’ Tetbury, 2011
22) Joint exhibition ‘The Bowery ‘ Leeds (Motion of the Mind), 2011
23) Group exhibition’ The Lloyd Gill Gallery’, Weston Super Mare ‘Exploring Fluidity: The Ebb and Flow of Control’, Jan 2011
24) Group exhibition ‘Outside the Square Gallery’, Kent, March 2011
25) Group Exhibition ‘Meller Merceux’ Oxford, Sept 2011
26) Meller Mercuex Gallery, Witney. Solo show ‘Nature’s Paradise’ 01st September – 26th September
27) Bluemoon Gallery, Tunbridge Wells. Group show November 2011
28) Buy Art Fair, Manchester. October, 2011
29) Off The Wall Gallery, Cardiff. Group Show December 2011