Victoria Lovecchio

Victoria Lovecchio is an artist living and working on Awabakal land in Muloobinba (Newcastle) NSW. She graduated from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in printmaking, and has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions since then.

Her work is concerned with themes of time, place and memory; ranging from painting to mixed media textured, layered drawings using paper, cardboard, thread and textiles, which she identifies as maps.

The concept of poetic mapping is central to her current body of work, where the idea of mapping a physical and emotional experience of place is a core theme. Poetic mapping is a type of ‘counter-mapping’, where a location or experience is visually described through an alternative lens to the prevailing cartography.

The works are often developed from ‘low value’ materials such as re-purposed drawings which are collaged, wet, rolled, stitched or manipulated in a variety of ways to create a new form. “I am not concerned with perfection or beauty in the conventional sense, rather I am more interested in the experience of making and the experience of viewing; of telling a story”.

International artist residencies in France (2022) and Japan (2023), and personal travel in Central Australia (2021) have been significantly influential in the development her current direction.

Victoria’s work is informed by artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Ann Hamilton, Howard Taylor, Ana Mendieta, Sheila Hicks, Anni Albers and Louise Bourgeois, as much as the thinking of phenomenological philosophers Gaston Bachelard, Henri Bergson and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.