Victoria Lucas is an artist and curator making site-responsive work across sculpture, moving image, installation, and exhibition-making. Her practice centres on landscape: not as backdrop, but as something inhabited and mutually shaping. How we encounter the land, and how we have treated it, reflects how we encounter and understand ourselves. Her PhD research, Reclamation Ground, formalised this through the concept of symjectivity: a formulation of entangled subjectivity that positions the human body not as separate from the world, but as of it.

Work begins with sustained encounter with site. Walking, returning, observing, and recording over time form the foundation of each project, combined with archival and geological research. Geological matter, industrial residue, and archival fragments become the substance of the work, translated through digital and material experimentation and spatial construction into installations and objects that hold the complexity of their source. Projects range from large institutional commissions to intimate, standalone pieces.

Her curatorial practice, developed independently and through Heavy Water Collective, extends the same thinking into collaborative frameworks. Exhibition-making becomes a way to connect artists, archives, and landscapes, activating collections through contemporary practice.

Selected exhibitions and commissions include The Hepworth Wakefield, Freelands Foundation, Weston Park Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery.

Victoria Lucas is based in Sheffield, UK.

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