Victoria KingVictoria King is an artist and writer. She creates paintings, sculptures and poetry that explore the experience of displacement and the gifts of nature. Her artwork has been exhibited in a major curated retrospective, fourteen solo art exhibitions an over 40 group shows. Born in Kentucky in 1951, she emigrated to England in 1972 to study with the spiritual philosopher J.G. Bennett. She became a British citizen and was a university senior lecturer in Fine Art for many years. In 1992 she moved to Australia and spent extensive periods of time at the Aboriginal outstation of Utopia with Anmatyerre and Alyawarre women artists recording their stories. Victoria received a PhD at UNSW for her thesis Art of Place and Displacement: Embodied Perception and the Haptic Ground. Her writing and artwork have appeared in over 25 books and international journals, and two volumes of her poetry and artwork have been published: Black Stone Birds (2012) and Memento Mori (2015). She was art editor for Birdsong: A Celebration of Bruny Island Birds (2014). Since the birth of her granddaughter Meadow, Vicki and John spend significant time in England to be with her and son Zack. Read More Read Less