Dr. Victoria Bernie

Biography

Victoria Clare Bernie is a visual artist whose work explores the representation of landscapes in Scotland through video, graphic, and photographic media. Her practice is characterized by a cumulative process that encompasses video, drawing, cartography, fieldwork, in-field conversation, and archival research, all directed towards a critical examination of how landscape images are formed. Her work results in practices that include video, installation, and drawing photowork, which records, remakes, and invents landscapes, often blurring the line between reality and fiction. Victoria is a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), where she completed her MA in Fine Art and also undertook postgraduate studies in Printmaking. She has been recognized with awards such as the Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship and the Scottish Arts Council/Creative Scotland Professional Award for Visual Artists. Victoria was an artist in residence at the SAMS Marine Institute in Oban and became a recipient of the RSA Residency in Scotland. As a Lecturer in Architectural Design at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), she focuses on teaching cross-disciplinary collaboration between architects and landscape architects in the MArch and MA Architectural Design programmes and the MA MLA Landscape Architecture programmes, as well as leading an elective course titled 'On Drawing'.

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