Biography
Vicki Thornton is an artist filmmaker. Working with film, video and photography, her practice aims to explore representation, memory and visual pleasure and their role in the creation of open or subjective narratives.
Vicki graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 with an MA in Photography and was awarded the Painter Stainers’ Company Prize for Photography the same year. She was a founding member of the CutUp collective (2005 - 2007), a group of artists linked by a desire to reorder the urban landscape through intervention and play.
Her new film '(N)OSTALGIA: The Pleasure of Ruins' (in development) has been selected for this year's Experimenta Production Pitch at the 59th BFI London Film Festival. Vicki was nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists in 2015 and 2008, completed a residency at Château de Sacy in France in 2013, and participated in the inaugural VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema at Lo Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Florence in 2012.
Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and screenings across the UK and internationally.
