Victoria is a practising visual artist and doctoral candidate associated with Belfast School of Art. 

Her painting to date has typically centred around aspects of decoloniality, encompassing the climate crisis, inequality and feminism, drawing on her lived experience in the Caribbean islands as well as in the north of Ireland.

The practice-based element of her research meditates on the concept of embodied painting.

nature of artistic practice in Northern Ireland

in present-day painting and literature in Northern Ireland.  She has a previous French and Germanic Studies degree from Trinity College Dublin and lived previously in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe.

Vikkie has been a painter working with oil paint for over 20 years. She graduated from her degree at Belfast School of Art with a first class honours degree in Fine Art in 2019 and has had solo shows and group shows internationally. She has been a recipient of various awards and Arts Council Northern Ireland grants as well as artist residency bursaries which have enabled her to make work at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig on multiple occasions since 2018. Her work is held in collections at the African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland (ACSONI) headquarters in Belfast, University of Atypical, and at the Kanu Nayak Art Foundation in Mumbai, India. A touring exhibition with the Drawing Box International collective forms part of the National Irish Visual Art Library (NIVAL) in Dublin.  Vikkie’s paintings are included in private collections across the island of Ireland as well as in France, North America and Australia.

Aideen Barry is a practising Visual Artist based in Ireland but with international representation. In 2020 she was elected to the RHA. She is a member of Aosdána and Lectures in several universities and schools of visual art in Ireland, the US and Europe.

 Barry is an artist whose work encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, such as domestic labour, environmental fracture, and human vulnerability. Her work meditates on feminism, classism, intersectionality, and inequality. Utilising archives, museums, and other dialectic processes, she seeks to transfer the unknown through the experiential; democratising access to visual culture and complex ideas of otherness through clever ploys of collaboration and plot devices that seduce the viewer into her multi spatial experiences. Her works reflect her commitment to confronting unsettling truths and addressing gaps in the canon.

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Selected projects include exhibitions at: Gallery & Studios Award and undertook her residency in January 2023.
 

Solo exhibitions

01-02/2025 Hell or high water III, Atypical Gallery, Belfast, curated by Zara Lyness

07-09/2023 Hell or high water II, The Market Place Theatre Gallery, Armagh, curated by Christine Donnelly

Group exhibitions

04/2025 Capturing Nature, Valles Saieta Namã, Bauskas Novads, Latvia

02/2025 Capturing Nature, Cultural Centre of Jelgava, Latvia

11-12/2024 Inside Out, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton curated by Diane Henshaw

08/2024 Shape of a Pocket at Catalyst Arts curated by Dougal McKenzie and Chris Hanlon

05/2024 Practice-based PhD exhibition at Ulster University PhD Festival, Belfast, curated by Deborah White

10/2023 Royale Arcade Academy, Arcade Studios, Belfast, curated by Sophia Campbell

05/2023 Practice-based exhibition at Ulster University PhD Festival, Belfast, curated by Deborah White

08/2022 Between Matter and Words, PSsquared, Belfast curated by Adriana Valderrama

06/2022 Exhibition at Harkin Summit, ICC Conference centre, Belfast

08/2021 One drawing a day exhibition, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France

01/2021 Galway Arts Centre, Republic of Ireland; The Drawing Box A5 group exhibition

12/2020 The Drawing Box A5 group exhibition, Modeenagh Studio, Tempo, Fermanagh

12/2020 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, N. Ireland; 1 Ft Sq. exhibition

07/2020 Hambly & Hambly Gallery, Enniskillen, N. Ireland; Arts Unlocked exhibition

02/2020 QSS Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland; Emergence III exhibition

08/2019 Stendhal Festival of Art, Limavady

11/2019 Journey Multimedia Exhibition, Andrews Gallery, Titanic Centre, Belfast

11/2019 St. Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, N. Ireland; Links Legacy 400 exhibition

09/2019 Emerging Artists Exhibition, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast

06/2019 Hell or high water I, Degree Show, Belfast School of Art

02/2019 1 Ft Sq. exhibition at Hambly & Hambly Gallery, Enniskillen

12/2018 1 Ft Sq. exhibition at Strule Arts Centre, Omagh

12/2018 Roe Valley Arts Centre, Limavady, N. Ireland; Close to Home

04/2017 Closure Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

12/2016 Collective Memories, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

06/2012 Cusp, Engine Room Gallery, Linenhall Street, Belfast