Victoria is attracted to the way narrative and meaning are built up around objects. She explores the human urge to embellish and imbue objects with meaning by letting those impulses have free rein during the making process. She seeks to create pieces that combine narratives from her personal lived experiences with an aesthetic that is reminiscent of an artefact or relic.

Working in ceramics is a recent addition to her practice, she is drawn to the tactile quality of clay and the intuitive nature of the hand-building process. Hand-building techniques lend themselves well to the organic and imperfect aesthetic which she wishes to create, ultimately trying to recapture the feeling of awe that exists around ancient objects.

The piece ‘Are You Happy?’ (pictured) was made using a hand building technique called coiling. The slow, laborious nature of the technique is part of her exploration of the subject matter, which is her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Her influences include outsider art, ritual objects, the natural world and increasingly folklore and mythology.