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Vicki West
1960
A descendant of the Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania Vicki West was born in Launceston, Tasmania. A sculptor, weaver and installation artist West in the early 1990s West took a bridging course in art at the Riawunna Centre for Aboriginal Education, Launceston. In 1999 she gained her Bachelor Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania, School of Visual and Performing Arts. She went on to get a BFA First Class Honours in 2001 and Masters in 2008 both also from the University of Tasmania, School of Visual and Performing Arts.
West was a finalist in the 17th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 2000. She went on to curated the exhibition 'Taking Our Place’ at Gallery A, University of Tasmania (Launceston campus) in 2001 and in 2004 she conducted a weaving workshop with fellow weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston and a kelp workshop at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Also in 2004, West won the Arts Tamania residency at Lake St Clair (Residency Leeawulenna). In 2006 she presented a conference paper at the Selling Yarns conference in Darwin and for the touring exhibition 'Woven Forms: Contemporary basket making in Australia’ at Object Gallery in Sydney. In 2007 she was invited to sit as a member of the Aboriginal Advisory Committee for Arts Tasmania. In 2012 West was a representative for Australia at the Festival of Pacific Arts and was a featured artist on ‘Richard Bell’s Colour Theory’ in 2013 on NITV. And in 2016 she was on an ArtLands Dubbo panel ‘Waterlines: Innovative CACD Collaborative Project Connecting Artists and Communities from Bass Strait to the Torres Strait’.
West has exhibited widely around Australia in both solo and group exhibitions. West’s solo exhibitions include “A Nasty Piece of Work” Arts Alive, Launceston, Tas (2005); ‘Shadows: A Nasty Piece of Work No. 2’, Poimena Gallery, Tas (2005); ‘Re-earthing’, Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne (2008) and ‘kerliggener brayly’, Riawunna Centre, University of Tasmania (2014). While recent group exhibitions include ‘Float in time’, Georges Lane. Tas (2010); ‘Body Exquisite’, NEW Gallery, University of Tasmania (2010): ‘28th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award’, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (2011); ‘kerliggener no 1’, Festival of Pacific Arts, Art Gallery of Honiara, Solomon Islands (2012); ‘The Dream of the Thylacine’, Carriageworks, NSW (2013); ‘Biophilia’, Beaver Galleries, Canberra (2014) and ‘Te Pu O Te Wheke Toi Ngapuhu’, New Zealand (2014).
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