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Victoria Crowe OBE, RSA, RSW, ARWS
Title: Reflect
Date: 2008
Bronze, H 25cms x D 17 x W 18
“Little Saint” was developed from drawings I made in Venice. This St George with rubbed paint, gesso and woodworm had a wonderful tactile quality and a timeless feel to it. The painting shows the head against a clouded mirror. I thought for the sculpture I would try to echo the idea of an anonymous head with a bronze mirror; I like the way the mirror extends the context of the human presence and sets up a different dialogue. The bronze mirror was based on engraved specimens in the museum on Torcello.
Biography
After four years at Kingston College of Art, Victoria Crowe completed a three year post-graduate at the Royal College. She was invited to teach Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art by Sir Robin Phillipson in 1968 and taught there on a part-time basis while developing her practice as a painter, and exhibiting widely with regular solo shows in London and Edinburgh. Crowe’s interest in portraiture has resulted in many commissions including work for the National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Danish National Portrait Collection, and she has travelled to Extremadura, Poland and India working as an artist on conservation projects.
In 2000, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s millennium exhibitions included “A Shepherd’s Life” – a collection of Crowe’s work from the 1970s and 80s. This subsequently toured and was re-gathered in 2009 for an exhibition at Flemings in London. Since taking early retirement from Edinburgh College of Art (and missing the students!), she has been able to spend extended periods of time working in Italy. From 2003 to 2007 Crowe was Visiting Scholar at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge and she currently works for the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition at the Scottish Gallery.
www.victoriacrowe.com
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