Victoria Cantons

Victoria Cantons is a British artist based in London. She is a BA Painting graduate of Wimbledon College of Arts, London in 2017 and Turps Art School in 2018. Cantons was a recipient of the Felix Slade Scholarship and completed her MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. 

“I grew up in London as an only child of immigrant parents,” Cantons writes (her mother was Spanish and her father French Algerian of Jewish descent). “I have memories of being different from the outset.”

Her upcoming show at Tube Gallery in March 2025 coincides with the opening of There Are Other Skies, held at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Arizona, USA. Cantons’ work probes the human condition, exploring the psychological and emotional boundaries that shape our relationships with ourselves and others. At the core of her multidisciplinary practice lies an understanding of identity as multifaceted and constantly evolving. The work inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration, and is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos. Paintings vary between naturalistic depictions and expressive gestures with fluid brushwork and often inscribed text engaging with the universal complexities of being human.