enigmachick A.K.A. Victoria Milne - Sculptor
Florida based sculptor Enigmachick A.K.A. Victoria Milne uses sculpting to explore ideas, emotions, perceptions, and observations using a variety of materials and formats. Her work and inspiration vary from spontaneous creations where she lets the shapes and textures of objects around her lead her, to designs intended to portray something specific. Largely self-taught, she works mostly in metal, often incorporating found objects, stone, glass, wood or whatever catches her eye, either as the point of departure or as an accent.
Throughout her life she's enjoyed making and fixing things. Writing was her outlet for self-expression but when she took a welding class that she found the perfect medium with which to satisfy her need to use her hands and the desire to express both her inner world and external observations. A strong interest in contrast and fluidity is evident in her work. Using hard, sharp materials she creates soft, curvaceous abstract forms such as in her work with jagged metals, nails and fish hooks from which come waves, flowers or concepts of identity and personality.
Since taking a metal sculpting class at the Silvermine Arts Guild, she has completed three residencies at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI, earning a merit award in 2017. Her work has been accepted into juried shows including the 32nd and 33rd All Florida Exhibit at the Alliance for the Arts - Fort Meyers, FL, Artfields 2023 - Lake City, SC, two Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club shows - New York City at the historic Salmagundi Club, thematic shows at the ArtsXchange and Five Deuces Gallery - St. Petersburg, FL and non-juried shows in Connecticut and Rhode Island. She worked as a fabrication assistant for Sculptor Gilbert Boro's Studio 80 in Connecticut for the Knot Theory exhibit at Lyman Allyn Museum. She has pieces in private collections in the U.S., Germany and Thailand.
Throughout her life she's enjoyed making and fixing things. Writing was her outlet for self-expression but when she took a welding class that she found the perfect medium with which to satisfy her need to use her hands and the desire to express both her inner world and external observations. A strong interest in contrast and fluidity is evident in her work. Using hard, sharp materials she creates soft, curvaceous abstract forms such as in her work with jagged metals, nails and fish hooks from which come waves, flowers or concepts of identity and personality.
Since taking a metal sculpting class at the Silvermine Arts Guild, she has completed three residencies at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI, earning a merit award in 2017. Her work has been accepted into juried shows including the 32nd and 33rd All Florida Exhibit at the Alliance for the Arts - Fort Meyers, FL, Artfields 2023 - Lake City, SC, two Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club shows - New York City at the historic Salmagundi Club, thematic shows at the ArtsXchange and Five Deuces Gallery - St. Petersburg, FL and non-juried shows in Connecticut and Rhode Island. She worked as a fabrication assistant for Sculptor Gilbert Boro's Studio 80 in Connecticut for the Knot Theory exhibit at Lyman Allyn Museum. She has pieces in private collections in the U.S., Germany and Thailand.