Victoria Lucas is an artist and curator based in Sheffield, UK.

As an artist she makes site-responsive work across sculpture, moving image, installation, and exhibition-making. Her practice explores landscape as something inhabited, porous and mutually shaping. Her PhD research, Reclamation Ground, formalised this through the concept of symjectivity, a formulation of entangled subjectivity that positions the human body within a complex network of earthly matter that, in turn, shapes who we are as earthly beings.

Work begins with sustained and embodied encounters with site. Walking, returning, observing, being 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 transformed 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 art practice.

Selected exhibitions and commissions include The Hepworth Wakefield, Freelands Foundation, Weston Park Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. She is the 2026 Artist-in-residence at the Glenveagh National Park, Donegal, Ireland, which is funded by the Derek Hill Foundation and supported by Glebe House and Gallery in Church Hill and the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny. 

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