Festival of Muslim Cultures: UK 2006
Festival of Muslim Cultures | UK 2006 Print Project | workshops | outreach artists | Victoria Malcolm
Victoria Malcolm
Victoria Malcolm grew up in Tunis, London and Capetown; she trained in Fine Art painting at Hammersmith College in the mid-70’s before moving to west Wales in the mid-80’s. Here she has developed and maintained her practice, studying with the colourist Mary Lloyd Jones and more recently with the calligrapher Mustafa Ja’far at the British Museum. She is a founder member of Fforma group and of Aberystwyth Printmakers. Alongside exhibiting, she has a sustained and continuing involvement with establishing both the regional and artist led galleries in Carmarthen. Victoria is currently a Director and Company Secretary of King Street Gallery artists’ cooperative.
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My relationship with printmaking has led naturally to a simple and abstract approach to the use of colour and line, arising from my practice of lifedrawing and landscape painting.
I am working on a series of small monoprints based on calligraphic letters of the Arabic alphabet, using colour, sections and repeats to emphasise the beauty of the curved and sensuous lines.
In taking the shapes out of the context of words (and all that can be misconstrued from them by non-Arabic readers, so full of apprehension about the Arab/Muslim world), I try to highlight the underlying principle of the infinite line and the human qualities of an abstract discipline so easily misunderstood.
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