Victoria Arney graduated in 2012 with an MFA from UAL winning the Ardizzone Print Award, the Bambridge prize, Oaksmith Prize and the John Purcell award at Bite Mall Galleries London. She is a member of the London group and she shows regularly in Europe and the UK. Highlights include The British Museum, Laguna Art Prize Venice , Poori Art Museum Finland, Southampton Art Gallery, Kyoto Seika University Gallery Fleur Tokyo Japan. She was Artist in Residence in the Cévennes in 2018 and has just finished a residency collaboration with Carol Wyss at Frans Masereel Centrum Belgium. In 2021 she was shortlisted or the Mario Avati French print prize.

Currently based in France, Arney is a co founder of geographies of print. Her upcomning project is with the Museum des Alpilles and the National Parc des Alpilles scheduled for July 2023.

Using ornithological programs, Arney’s prints evoke the flow & script of life around her studio. Her practice incorporates recordings of birdsong and ambient natural sounds to produce a library of plates which develop into small editions and large installations.  

Her use of wood links to the natural spaces where she makes her recordings. Collecting information on particular birds & places over several years, she has developed a dialogue of place that mirrors a script of ephemeral life extending printmaking into the physical and most recently into music conversations.  

Atlas reflects two sound recordings created 6 months apart in the same location.  The sonograms are then drawn onto wooden panels, cut and printed by hand as a script of a moment in time in that place.

Atlas: Winter Spring, 2022

Wood cut on Taisan Paper

1000mm x 2000mm (each scroll)