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Victoria Rickards

  • Victoria Rickards is a painter,  scenic designer, and lighting designer whose work is informed by her experiences living in Miami,  New York, and Columbia, South Carolina, as well as her Caribbean heritage. 

    Her paintings develop a visual language that emerged from a personal rejection of societal vanity, particularly surrounding body image. Through a gradual evolution of abstraction, Rickards transforms the human form into new visual vocabularies. 

    Rickards’ process unfolds as a visual deconstruction of the human form. She begins with fluid, distorted bodies that converge to reveal hidden faces. Over time, these forms dissolve further into figures without identifiable bodies, reflecting a fragmentation of self and a rejection of the physical ideal. From these broken forms, she constructs cities, compositions that reassemble the human presence into a collective sense of place and belonging. Through this transformation, Rickards reimagines community as an interwoven tapestry of the human spirit rather than the human body. Rickards’ work celebrates community, happiness , and her gratitude for life, transforming her memory into colorful and symbolic  compositions.


    This commitment to abstraction extends into her scenic and lighting design, where she evokes emotional responses from audiences. Guided by instinct and a lifelong creative intuition, Rickards approaches each project as an immersive composition, allowing the work itself to inform her design choices. Across mediums, she blends fine art and stage design, exploring how abstraction can transform space, perception, and emotional experience.