Season II Artist Highlight: Sensory Poetics & Autistic Joy with Victoria Gray

Synovium Podcast

Victoria Gray [1982] is an artist and practice-led researcher, and has presented work nationally and internationally throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. With an initial conservatoire training in dance and somatic practice (1998 - 2004), her primary medium and material is the body. Her work includes actions, interventions, time-based sculpture and video, being presented in museums, galleries and festivals in performance art, fine art and choreographic contexts. Her current artistic research is orientated within the field of autistic perception and sensory differences, drawing on lived experience, creative practice and philosophy. In particular, she is currently immersed in understanding sensory trauma and CPTSD within the autistic community and autistic sensory life-writing. As well as fielding this enquiry through her artistic practice, she is a qualified neurodiversity specialist and consultant, working in the Education and Health and Social Care Sectors. In the wider community, as part of York Mental Health Partnership, she is founder of the Neurodivergence and Mental Health Working Group, an advocacy group focussed on improving access to and quality of services for autistic adults. https://www.victoriagray.co.uk