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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Bodies that Matter by Victoria Royds
Bodysuit: Iron Maiden Collection	Artemis - Pillars of Society 2007

Bodies That Matter, Pine River Regional Art Gallery, Strathpine, Qld., June - July 2007

Sponors for this project:
Lavendar CE, Brisbane
Coredev, Toowoomba

Other outcomes from this project so far:

Victoria was recently invited to participate in the 2007 Prometheus: Visual Art Award, Prometheus Foundation, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Qld Me Without Mirrors#1 2006 bronze 550 x 450 x 180mm

see Alternate Material in Public Art
Art and Science Converge

Bodies That Matter: exploring the fragmentation of the female body & women's identity,
Metro Arts, Brisbane September -October 2005

Girls Skins 2004 latex 650mm x 2metres x 3metres

Box A-H bronze 200 x 650 x 650mm

A Call To Arms: Re-colonisation of The Feminine Bodyscape, Technology and the Spirit,
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, March - April 2005

Artemis - Pillars of Society #1 - 2004 bronze 350 x 100 x 100mm		Spin FX #1 - 2004 bronze 300 x 300 x 300mm

This exhibition highlighted the notion of yearning for identity by reviewing the relationship of the 'self' and 'other' (women) to the female body. The work she hopes help to reconcile feminine 'maternal time' (motherhood) with linear patriarchal time (political, historical).

The female body can be seen to function as a symbolic form that signifies gender, race and perhaps even social class. Traditional, representations of the female body have been coded in terms of a decisive split between the mind and body, between the material and the spiritual, as well as a political opposition between male and female; between dominance and subservience. A tradition in which Man is representationaly aligned with mind, and Woman is aligned with body.

Other recent exhibtions Victoria has been involved:

2007
- Prometheus: Visual Art Award, Prometheus Foundation, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Qld
- 15th Pine Rivers Annual Art Awards, (juried) Pine River Regional Art Gallery, Strathpine, Qld
2006 -2007
- Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show, Thursday Plantation, Ballina, NSW
2006
- Swell, Currumbin Beach Ocean-Walkway, Currumbin Qld
- Casuarina Sculpture Walk, Casuarina Beach Domain Resort Boardwalk, New Tweed Coast NSW
- Christmas Exhibition, Swell Gallery, Tugun Queensland
- Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award & Exhibition, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Qld
- Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery Acquisitive Sculpture Competition, Grand Champion - Acquired, Crows Nest Regional Art Gallery, Crows Nest, Qld
- Southern Exposure Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld
- Sculptors Queensland Easter Exhibition, Mt Coot-tha Gardens Brisbane
- Sculptors Queensland & Photofest Australia Exhibition, 2006 Qld Photographer of the Year Award and Exhibition, Rydges Hotel, Southbank, Brisbane
2005
- 'Four seasons fill the measure of the year'...Keats, Society of Sculptors Queensland Exhibition, Robyn Bauer Studio Gallery, 54 Latrobe Terrace, Paddington
- Flying Arts 2005 Regional Arts Award (juried), Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach & Riverside Centre Foyer, Brisbane
- Warwick Art Prize (juried) - Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld
- Prometheus: Visual Art Award, (juried) Prometheus Foundation, All Saints Anglican School, Merrimac, Qld
- smaller3, Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
the Churchie: emerging art exhibition, (juried) Anglican Church Grammar School, East Brisbane
2004
- Martin Hanson Memorial Art Exhibition (sculpture), Trevor McMaster Refrigeration Award - 3D, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Gladstone, Qld
- Vectors II, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
- Warwick Art Prize (juried) - Sculpture Award, Warwick Art Gallery, Warwick Qld
- Stanthorpe Art Prize (juried) - sculpture