Inspired by music and dance, Victoria McGeoch tries to capture the physical and emotional force of the human body, from individuals to couples in conversation. She draws in space, welding and bending rods into long fluid lines. Steel rods bestow each figure with functional and aesthetic strength. Certain lines give weight and direction, while other lines subtly highlight the profile of a man or a woman. She intends to communicate a bold gesture of movement with a fragmented and simplified form. As a counterbalance, she also sculpts and casts human heads and small figures into bronze, grey iron or aluminum. This subordination of movement to detail and pause captures the raise of an eyebrow or the determination of a nose. Facial expressions become tactile experiences as she sculpts the sensuous nature of moving skin.

After studying a B.A. in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, Victoria McGeoch returned to Rhode Island to live and sculpt. As a sculptress, she uses the facilities of the Rhode Island School of Design, Cumberland Foundry, Paul King Foundry and her industrial studio space at Miller Metals of Warren to weld, cast and complete her figures and heads. Upon graduating she exhibited in two shows in London, one of which featured her in the top twenty out of all fine art graduates for Saatchi Gallery’s 2007 4 New Sensations Competition. Since her return, she has exhibited in juried shows and galleries in Little Compton and Warren. She recently exhibited in the South Coast Artists Open Studio Tours in July and August of this year in Little Compton.