Victoria Horkan
Victoria Horkan
Victoria Horkan

Born in SouthYorkshire and now living and working in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Her education began at Bretton Hall College before moving onto studying an MA at Huddersfield University.
Her studies into textile design meant she could explore with vigour the tangible tactile qualities using unconventional materials gave her. Layering plaster with thick undiluted oil paint gave rich, painterly textures with a sense of fragility and evocativeness.
More recently the use of a raw, organic colour palette, depicting elements of movement is the artist’s upmost intention.  Her work celebrates the simplest of forms and delivers them into a contemporary age that conveys honesty and emotion. The relationship between her ability to manoeuvre paint and express fluidity and energy, is clever yet sometimes unintentional.
There’s an apparent flexibility in her creativity which is explorative and challenges the scale of how each form is depicted.   Each one of her paintings takes her upon another journey, admitting that some of the textures created are accidental she develops these areas into the focal point for the next piece.
‘The small somewhat irrelevant experiences 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 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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Freelance textile designer ‘Rogue’ Manchester 2002
Exhibited at The Great Art Fair London, 2006
Exhibited at The Edinburgh Art Fair, 2006
Exhibited in Belfast, Blue 73 Gallery, 2006
Commissioned by major corporate and private collectors alike, Italy, America, Denmark Canada, UK, 2007
Exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair London, 2007
Worked with art consultants in Ireland on a large solo project, 2007
Collection of paintings published in Interior Design Special Esquire Magazine, 2007
Group exhibition in Leeds, Artco 2008 displaying collections alongside pioneering British artists such as Alan Davie and Patrick Caulfield, 2008
Special feature on BBC1 Website 2008
Group exhibition, Knapp Gallery, Regents Park, London, 2008
Manchester Buy Art Fair, 2009
Group exhibition, Castletown, Isle of Man. 2009
Solo exhibition by appointment only,  Leeds 2009
The Malvern Theatres,  Worcestershire, 2009
Large scale solo project (15 commissions) for private client in Isle of Man, 2010
Solo exhibition (Movement)  in Islington, London 2010
Solo exhibition Roa Gallery, Pall Mall, London 2010
Manchester Buy Art Fair, 2010
Joint exhibition The Art Gallery Tetbury, 2010
Joint exhibition ‘The Bowery ‘ Leeds (Motion of the Mind), 2010
Group exhibition ‘Onishi Gallery’ New York  TBC 2011