Sian Fan is joined by artist Victoria Lucas for an artist talk and in-conversation around Fan’s new commission, Phantom, an interactive artwork made using indie game design software and motion capture technologies.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions during the event. The event will be live captioned using Otter transcription software, we will provide a link and instructions on how to use at the start of the event.
Artists
Sian Fan
Sian Fan is an interdisciplinary artist working in London, where she is artist in residence at the Sarabande Foundation. She is a graduate of the Fine Art Masters course at Central Saint Martins, where she was awarded the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship and was nominated for the Nova Award. In 2014 she graduated from the University of Brighton’s BA Performance and Visual Art Dance course, where she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Creative Achievement.
She has exhibited internationally with venues including Tate Modern, British Council, and the ICA, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Google.
Victoria Lucas
Victoria Lucas (b.1982) is an artist and senior lecturer based in Sheffield, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from Norwich School of Art (2004), MFA in Fine Art from The University of Leeds (2007) and is currently a part-time PhD candidate at Sheffield Hallam University. She teaches at the University of Central Lancashire. Recent artworks incorporate sculpture with video, photography, sound and performance. Lucas uses technology and sculpture to remap, embody and entangle the material strata of landscapes, a process in which female subjectivity is reimagined and reclaimed in place. She is a Platform20 resident at Site Gallery as part of the Freelands Artist Programme (2020 – 22); was recently commissioned to design the cover of Corridor8’s CHAINMAIL#4 Publication; and in 2020 she orchestrated a performance for the Art and the Rural Imagination conference.