Background Victoria has been an educator at the Secondary and Tertiary levels in Canada and Australia, with an emphasis on Photomedia and Contemporary Art. She has previously worked in private industry as a Graphic Artist. She has consulted and spoken widely on Photomedia, Art Education and, in 2002, completed a lecture tour of New Zealand for the Beeby Foundation and the New Zealand Ministry of Arts. In 2014, Victoria directed the Photography & Fictions Conference for the Queensland Festival of Photography, and edited the acompanying refereed publication. In 2015, she addressed Fast Forward: Women in Photography Symposium at the invitation of the Tate Modern, London.
Her research includes a cross-cultural comparison of the life and work of Canadian artist Emily Carr to the Australian artist Margaret Preston and the Aboriginal photographs of J.W. Lindt. She has written monographs, ‘Renata Buziak: Afterimage’, and ‘Fred Hunt’, published by the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Victoria’s exhibitions include hand-applied silver gelatin images (4 Sisters, 1994; Wake, 2003; Silver Gelatin, 2014), digital images (Landscape Painting, 2005; Only You, 2014), and still life photographs (Nesting, 2008).
This information has been contributed by Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams.