Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Victoria P Gill. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Victoria, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Do you wish you had started sooner?

I actually did not know what conceptual or performance art was for a long time. Despite being an highly creative as a child, I studied an academic university degree and mainly focused on writing in my late teens to early 20’s. I was the first one in my family to go university and started a magazine with my two uni friends, from there I went into writing and got an in-house role at a fashion magazine when graduating as a writer. I got to interview directors I admired, and right tips on skincare etc but that is when I cracked and I realised I wanted to be doing my own thing- so I really came to it later. I also didn’t know what the hell I was doing- it did not make sense that i had left this begins of a career behind as a magazine writer – when surely it would help me contact wise. But these years later I get it- I couldn’t put a show on of stolen goods, outside the met in a van or do a 24 hour performance and still be writing stories I do not believe in. I started by just getting an idea and quickly try and get it out there- by filming my friends or making something – when I stopped working at the magazine- I started working nights in a pub to cover my rent and it was a it like what the hell… few years later I am so grateful I did.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am an artist from Leeds, northern England based in London. I work conceptually and I work with OWNED objects- not found.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

Being able to get an idea out of your head and in person. That never gets old and it never goes as you expect it to.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

Embarrass yourself, like try new things and let it not work out – like if I don’t feel like I am over stretching or embarrassing myself just a tad- then something isn’t right. Making art can be very embarrassing and that’s ok. Listen I am not strapping myself to the top of a car to be cool.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriapgill/

Image Credits

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