V ictoria C rowe
Cover: No 22.
V ictoria C rowe 4 May – 2 June 2017
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Victoria Crowe OBE, DHC, FRSE, MA (RCA), RSA, RSW (b.1945) Victoria Crowe studied at Kingston School of Art from 1961-65 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1965-68. At her postgraduate show she was invited by Sir Robin Philipson to teach at Edinburgh College of Art. For 30 years she worked as a part-time lecturer in the School of Drawing and Painting while developing her own artistic practice. Her first exhibition, after leaving the Royal College of Art, was in London and she has subsequently gone on to have over 50 solo shows. She is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken many important portrait commissions, including RD Laing, Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She is represented in London by Browse and Darby, and in Edinburgh by The Scottish Gallery. She has received many Bursaries and Research Awards and her work is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide. In 2000, her exhibition A Shepherd’s Life, consisting of work selected from the 1970s and 80s, was one of the National Galleries of Scotland’s Millennium exhibitions. It received great critical acclaim. The exhibition toured Scotland, and was re-gathered in 2009 for a three month showing at the Fleming Collection, London. Victoria was awarded an OBE for services in 2004, and from 2004 to 2007, she was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge. The resulting work, Plant Memory, was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2007 and subsequently toured Scotland. In 2009 she received an Honorary Degree from The University of Aberdeen and in 2010 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2013, Dovecot Studios wove a large-scale tapestry of Victoria’s painting Large Tree Group. This collaborative tapestry was acquired for the National Museums Scotland and became part of an International touring exhibition. In 2015, Victoria was an invited Artist-in-Residency at Dumfries House, and in 2016 a group of her works were acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.
In 2014, Victoria was commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers to design a 40 metre tapestry for their New Hall in the City of London, which, taking 3 years to weave, was installed in January 2017. This year has also seen Schubert’s Winterreise – A Parallel Journey; a collaboration with opera singer Matthew Rose and pianist Gary Matthewman, performed at The Wigmore Hall in London and The Benjamin Britten Studio at Snape Maltings, in which a video of Victoria’s work provided a visual dimension to the song cycle. In 2018, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is holding a retrospective exhibition of Crowe’s portrait work, which will coincide with an Edinburgh Festival Exhibition of New Paintings at The Scottish Gallery. For a full CV and further details of the artist’s work, please visit the Browse & Darby website www.browseanddarby.co.uk/artists/crowe-victoria/
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Blood Moon, Eclipse, oil on board, 8 x 10 inches Ferragosto, Fireworks, oil on board, 12 x 10 inches Blood Moon, Stone Flower, oil on board, 16 x 12 inches Evening Hillside and Thaw, oil on board, 12 x 19 inches Quince and Symbols, oil on board, 12 x 16 inches Blue Agapanthus, Changing Light, oil on board, 20 x 22 inches Agapanthus Shift, mixed media on board, 12 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches The Zattere, Evening, mixed media on board, 13 x 42 inches Reflected Silhouetted (Stephanotis), mixed media on handmade paper, 22 x 30 inches Aldeburgh Marshes, Frost and Mist, mixed media on paper, 13 x 16 1/2 inches Aldeburgh Marshes, Winter Sunset, mixed media on paper, 13 x 17 1/2 inches Against a Winter Sky, drawing on pumice-primed paper, 19 1/2 x 16 inches Pale Light, February Afternoon, mixed media on pumice-primed paper, 19 1/2 x 16 inches Looking Out, The Studio Dumfries House, mixed media on board, 11 1/2 x 15 inches Twilight Tree Group, mixed media on hand made paper, 11 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches Garden Room, ink and acrylic on paper, 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Calle del’Erbe, Rainy Day, watercolour and ink on hand made paper, 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches Field of Snow, ink and acrylic on hand made paper, 11 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches Evening, Salute, mixed media on hand made paper, 7 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches La Giudecca, Sunset, watercolour and ink on paper, 8 x 11 inches From Zitelle, Looking into the Evening Sun, mixed media on paper, 8 x 10 1/2 inches A Night of Frost, oil on linen, 24 x 22 inches From Brightness to Shadow, oil on linen, 30 x 40 inches Reflected Drama, San Giorgio, oil on linen, 30 x 36 inches White Nights, Northern Garden, oil on linen, 32 x 30 inches Ferragosto, Fireworks and Crocsmia Lucifer, oil on linen, 24 x 22 inches The City and Dramatic Sky, oil on board, 24 x 30 inches Reflected Skyline, Tramonto, oil and mixed media on paper, 15 x 23 inches Wall and Distant View, mixed media on board, 15 x 23 inches Twilight by the Bridge, watercolour on paper, 11 1/2 x 14 inches Drawing Lilies, ink and wash on hand made paper, 19 1/2 x 29 inches Enigmatic Venice, mixed media on canvas laid on board, 11 1/2 x 26 inches Against Setting Sun, acrylic and ink on paper, 11 1/2 x 14 inches Drawing Crocosmia I, mixed media on hand made paper, 6 x 8 1/2 inches Drawing Crocosmia II, mixed media on hand made paper, 6 x 8 1/2 inches Drawing Crocosmia III, mixed media on hand made paper, 6 x 8 1/2 inches Drawing Crocosmia IV, mixed media on hand made paper, 6 x 8 1/2 inches Against the Light, Deeper Twilight, monoprint, 22 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Against the Light, Pewter Shade, monoprint, 22 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches Against the Light, After the Rain, monoprint, 22 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Against the Light, Diffuse, monoprint, 18 1/2 x 26 inches Double Landscape, Diptych, oil and mixed media on paper, 12 x 17 inches Venetian Mirror, Reflecting Light, oil on board, 10 x 12 inches
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