Welcome to the residency!

It's Victor Lockhart here! Contributing Artist for Gothe Residency Of The Arts. I am a Writer, Poet and Filmmaker, enchanted by the dark, macabre and mysterious. All my life I have felt the desire to tell stories, whether it be through a few scribbled lines or through a lens.

I've been making little films and developed a taste for the dramatic since I was a little boy. My head has always been full of Grimm tales and ghosts and I would often spend my days stumbling through forests and fields, filming anything and everything that inspired me. Since then, I've found it hard to see life outside of angles and shots. In my head, everything has a story in it and I believe strongly in the power of imagery to reveal deep metaphor, meaning and show that even the most joyful of stories can have dark twists and turns. There is no light without dark after all. 

As a founding visionary for GROTA, and one of the first to join, I have been enthusiastic to represent Vincent Gothe's vision of our future residency through film, performance and poetry. Since I joined the project, I have seen the community grow and thrive and I hope to work more closely in documenting the progress of GROTA as we approach our funding goals as well as express my dark creativity within the residence with other creatives who share my passions. 

You can follow and support my contributions to GROTA as well as my own creative journey on my YouTube - https://youtube.com/@VictorLockhart?si=qD_4G_se6QGW-13M