“… what an artists wants … perhaps every painter and photographer across time, is to make a flat surface give way, to open up a space”
(Hisham Matar, A Month in Siena, 2020)
Victoria Caine is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Inverness.
After studying mathematics both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and working in higher education strategy for many years, Victoria decided to return to her studies and completed a BA in Fine Art at Moray School of Art in 2012.
In her current practice, Victoria works across a number of genres - drawing, sculpture, photography, sound – and combines elements of each to create abstract installations and sculptures that she describes as drawings made with found objects, textures, light and shadow.
By experimenting with ways to “make a flat surface give way, to open up a space”, Victoria also explores three-dimensionality in her wall-based relief works, incorporating found objects within her work, which she uses to ‘draw’ three-dimensional marks on a surface.
Victoria’s work often draws on her mathematical background in that she frequently involves repeated patterns, rhythms and geometric marks in her artwork. She also has a keen interest in Gaelic language & song and in Scottish step dance and enjoys working across disciplines to create visual responses to the work of Gaelic poets, musicians and dancers.