'I’m interested in depth and surface, and how the viewer might interpret or fall into an image’

Victoria Ahrens

Fine Artist

Victoria Ahrens’s works are distinguished by their protean nature, in form as well as content. Her forms of artistic expression are suitably varied and fluid, and involve a wide assortment of different disciplines...

Background

Ahrens started with photography and then she went away from that and started doing a lot of drawings and then got into print making. She is now beginning to come back to almost pure photography, although changed to other mediums.

Studio

Ahrens splits her time between her London studio in Camberwell and an annual winter migration to South America; sometimes to Brazil but more often to her father’s homeland of Argentina, where she spent much of her adolescence.
Studio in Camberwell...

‘The space you work in does change or influence the way you work… I’m much more comfortable in the smaller space so I think the way I work will be much freer in here. I find I work best if I’ve got everything to hand and I’m able to just sit here for hours and hours and explore and think.’

Sources of inspiration

Buenos Aires - architecture, history and politics
The idea of the ruin and the architectural palimpsest
‘Buenos Aires is an open book for that – it’s a mixture of eighteenth and nineteenth century neo-classical buildings, but also has this really modernist, almost fascist architecture of the dictatorship.’

Exhibitions

• Butterfly Walk- empty spaces, Camberwell, London
• London Group Open, Menier Gallery, London Bridge
• Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, Euston