Painter, sculptor, photographer, essayist, and poet Victoria King emigrated to England from America in 1972 to study art and philosophy and became a British citizen, a senior university lecturer and a passionate gardener. In late December 1993, she moved to Australia where she lived for twelve years on three acres in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, followed by thirteen years at ‘Blackstone’, a remote 55-acre off-grid waterfront property on Bruny Island, Tasmania. With volunteer help she planted over 4000 native trees at 'Blackstone' to create a sanctuary for the remarkable wildlife and to restore the land. At the request of Stolen Generation Aboriginal artist Barbara Weir, Victoria spent extensive periods of time living with Barbara at the Aboriginal outstation of Utopia recording her stories and those of twelve other Aboriginal women. In 2018, after the unexpected end of her 25-year marriage, she left Australia and returned to England to live near her son and granddaughter. Her artwork has been shown in over 50 exhibitions, including 16 solo shows. In 2000, a curated solo travelling retrospective of 25-years of her English and Australian artwork was held in Australia, and a solo 40-year retrospective of her artwork was shown in England between 2021 to 2022. She has a 1st Class Honours BA, an MA in Fine Art Painting and another MA in Fine Art Sculpture, both with Distinctions, and she received a PhD for her thesis Art of Place and Displacement: Embodied Perception and the Haptic Ground from the Art History and Theory Department of the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her essays, poetry, and artwork have been published in many books and international journals.

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DR. VICTORIA KING