Victoria Crowe RSA
Working between painting, drawing and printmaking, with each discipline informing the other, the inner structure of Crowe's work is often concerned with memory and association, timelessness and fragility, moving towards a metaphysical understanding of the nature of experience, as well as nature itself, real and transmuted. A profound quietude embodies her work, as her subjects, whether formal sitters or trees in a dusk winterscape, resonate Crowe's own continuous, layered journey of discovery, at once muted and illuminated.
Crowe's collaborations with other artists and projects envelope further diverse media. She has worked with Dovecot Tapestry Studios on several significant commissions, including a monumental 40 metre long tapestry for Leathersellers' Hall in the City of London, installed in 2017. Other collaborations have been with the opera singer Matthew Rose on a production of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise at Snape Maltings, Suffolk and London's Wigmore Hall in 2017, which projected a 70 minute video of Crowe‘s winter paintings; and with the poet Christine de Luca for the exhibition Another Time, Another Place held at The Scottish Gallery in 2021. In summer 2021 a performance of Thea Musgrave's Trumpet Concerto for Alison Balsom, a composition inspired by five of Crowe's paintings, was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Victoria Crowe RSASolstice, Trees and Ice, 2012Collagraph and etching50 x 40 cmEdition of 30£ 900.00
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Victoria Crowe RSAThe Façade at San Silvestro, VeniceMixed media on paperImage size: 16 x 50 cm£ 4,000.00
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Victoria Crowe RSADrawn from Nature, Iridescent Beetles, 2001Etching with screenprinting and chine collé18.5 x 24.5 cmEdition of 30£ 375.00
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Victoria Crowe RSADrawn from Nature: Crane Flies and DragonflyIntaglio and chine collePaper size: 29 x 38 cmEdition of 30£ 440.00
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Victoria Crowe RSADrawn from Nature: Young JackdawIntaglio and chine collePaper size: 28.5 x 38 cm
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Victoria Crowe RSAThe Language of Twilight, 2020Oil on board61 x 76 cm
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Victoria Crowe RSATuscan HillsideIntaglio and chine colléImage size: 14 x 9.5 cm
Paper size: 37.5 x 27.5 cm
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Victoria Crowe RSAWhile in VeniceScreenprint57.5 x 57.5 cmVariable edition of 50
Born in Kingston upon Thames, Crowe was educated at Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and at age 23 began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art, where she remained for 30 years while developing her own practice. Awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to Art, alongside extensive exhibitions and fellowships, Crowe has taken on notable public portrait commissions including Nobel physicist Peter Higgs, composer Thea Musgrave and astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell. In 2018 the Scottish National Portrait Gallery held Beyond Likeness, a retrospective exhibition of Crowe's portraits, and in 2019, the City Art Centre in Edinburgh hosted a lifetime retrospective, Fifty Years of Painting.
Victoria Crowe's work is held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Museums of Scotland, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Danish National Portrait Gallery, Chatsworth House and the Royal Academy.
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Interior Landscapes
26 June - 25 July 2021RSA Lower Galleries Free entry, booking required. Booking at the door is possible provided space is available. COVID-19 safety restrictions will be in place. Exhibitors: Sam Ainsley RSA | Mary...Read more -
Winter Flowers
20 January - 8 March 2018RSA Lower Galleries Free entry In 2015, an Anne Redpath lithograph was purchased for the RSA Collection. Winters Flowers was made by Anne in collaboration with Harley Brothers in Edinburgh....Read more -
Scottish Drawings
31 January - 1 March 2015RSA Lower Galleries Free entry An investigation into contemporary drawing by Royal Scottish Academicians and invited artists. The exhibition also fincludes a selection of historic works from the RSA Collections....Read more -
Victoria Crowe RSA OBE
Plant Memory 5 October - 5 November 2007The works in this exhibition took seed from a conversation between Victoria Crowe and Professor David Ingram of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (and formerly Regius Professor of the Royal Botanic...Read more -
The Curious Eye
14 July - 27 September 2007RSA Friends Room & Library Artists are naturally curious and, in all cultures since cave painting, curiosity about the natural world has been a springing point for the creative imagination....Read more -
Hive
New RSA Diploma Works 20 November 2006 - 26 March 2007HIVE: CAPTIVATION, COMMUNITY AND COLLABORATION NEW DIPLOMA WORKS FROM THE RSA PERMANENT COLLECTION A selection of recently received RSA Diploma Works – including painting, sculpture, prints and architectural images –...Read more