Victor Waclawik is an interdisciplinary artist working across kinetic sculpture, metalwork, installation and moving image.
Drawing on his studies in landscape evolution and geomorphology, Victor’s practice is steeped in the natural world.
Confronting environmental impacts and made in response to ecological concerns shaped by observation of environmental degradation and species loss, Victor’s multivarious artworks reflect a curiosity for materials and biological and scientific processes, ranging from physics to chemistry. Dexterous with materials, particularly metal casting, the artist’s practice is an ongoing exploration of the beauty and power of nature.
Victor graduated from the Adelaide Centre for the Arts with a Bachelor in Visual Art and Applied Design in 2012, was the recipient of a Helpmann Academy Grant (2013) to travel to San Francisco where he undertook an internship with the Flaming Lotus Girls, a female-led artists’ collective that creates large scale interactive fire sculptures.
Victor’s work has been included in Sculpture By The Sea, Bondi and the South Australian Museum’s Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize. He has installed artworks in such high profile public spaces as Victoria Square, in the heart of Adelaide, the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and the World Heritage listed Mungo National Park in NSW.
In addition to art, Victor has built wells in the remote Guatemalan jungle, released weather balloons in Antarctica and mapped the geology of Lake Eyre in central Australia