Victoria Cantons’ work is autobiographical as well as confessional with political undercurrents. Cantons presents a record of trauma and healing, alongside a rigorous inquiry into the social constraints surrounding gender politics. Deeply informed by her own experience of limitation and stigma, her work reverberates with notions of freedom, selfhood, representation, power and aspects of the human condition which she writes, despite our divergent identities and experiences, "connect us all."
Cantons lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL); followed by the Painters Studio Programme, Turps Art School, London; and graduated with an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, in 2021, where she received the Felix Slade Scholarship. She was shortlisted for the Chadwell Award in 2021 and for New Contemporaries in 2022.