Victoria at Trans Pride Hastings 2024 - 'Save Trans Kids' dress by Louise Gray - Photo by Alex Sadler
With a background in gender affirming healthcare, Victoria has spent recent years in the charity sector, running psychosocial support groups and workshops for trans, non-binary, and intersex folks. Alongside this, she has led TNBI focused inclusivity and awareness training and workshops for organisations across the public and private sectors, driven by a fierce commitment to improving TNBI lives.
In 2023, following an emotional vigil for 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, Victoria co-founded Trans Pride Hastings - the first official event of it's kind in the area. Spanning eight days across Hastings, St Leonards, and Bexhill, the inaugural event featured 15 activities that provided support, celebration, and a strong counter to the increasing negative media portrayals of trans lives. Trans Pride Hastings went on to win ‘Grassroots Pride of the Year’ at the 2024 Gaydio Pride Awards.
Creating has long been an integral part of her life as an artist — as a means of survival, self-expression, and experience-led connection. Victoria’s art is rooted in identity, resistance, and queer pride. Drawing from years of hands-on making and the energy of grassroots activism, she explores themes of visibility, belonging, and the unapologetic occupation of space. Her practice often includes found objects, textiles, music and interactive media, blending the personal and political to form intimate, thought-provoking and engaging projects. Through this, Victoria aims to create space for those navigating the margins - offering moments of recognition, reflection, and radical affirmation. Each work becoming part of an on-going and changing conversation: deeply personal, defiantly queer, and fundamentally hopeful.
Victoria was nominated and shortlisted for the Positive Role Model Award at the National Diversity Awards 2023, further cementing her role as an active community leader in advocacy and inclusion.
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