Victoria Arney’s work questions landscape where it begins, where it ends and where we are in relation to it.
Using the discipline of Printmaking she explores ideas in multiple ways using woodcut, drawing, installation and field recordings. In the last five years concentrating particularly on birdsong. Her works cross boundaries of print and sound collaborating with musicians. They are works that have as their base doubt, fragility and the invisible. She moved in 2014 to France ( near Montpellier ) and set up a print workshop and teaching resource and offers residencies and in 2024 began a research residency for artists working with drawing sound and landscape.
Arney has won numerous prizes including the John Purcell Paper Prize at Bite, The Ardizzone Print award at UAL and has shown at the British Museum, Venice at the Laguna Art fair in 2016 and at Le Palais Avignon in 2018. She was shortlisted for the Mario Avati Prix ( Academy des Beaux Arts Paris ) 2021 and recent projects include The Musee des Alpilles and the Parc des Alpilles in Provence exploring visually birdsong from the region.
Arney was featured in Pressing Matters Magazine and Actuel Magazine in 2020 and has written papers for Impact Printmaking journal 2024 and vol 10 of the Journal Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice – Listening – Drawing – Sounding, Apr 2025.
