International Health Humanities Network Membership

Victoria Jones is an international arts and creativity consultant with extensive experience across the creative sector. In 2016 Victoria established Arts Health Associates, www.artshealthassociates.com, an international arts health consultancy based in Melbourne.

 

Prior to this Victoria founded the multiple award winning ARCH programme for The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and the GO Create! arts program for Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Victoria also founded the Creative Communities program for London Underground’s Art on the Underground. She was also the Community & Access Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London.

 

Victoria has extensive experience of public art commissioning; managing a large art collections; developing participatory programs; curating and managing exhibition spaces; delivering events, performances & cultural enrichment programs for healthcare staff.

 

During her time at Great Ormond Street, Victoria worked with a number of high profile partners including Amnesty International, Graffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, actors Sir Ian McKellan, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Capaldi, Barbara Windsor, Rhys Ifans & comedian Sarah Millican.

 

Victoria's work has been widely recognised and she has received many awards and accolades including Highly Commended awards from The International Academy for Design & Health and The Building Better Healthcare Awards in 2014. In 2013 the GO Create! arts & crafts book was awarded gold at the Institute of Medical Illustrators Awards. On 2012 the GO Create! program was cited as an example of best practice in the European policy glossary 'Learning for Well-being: A Policy Priority for Children & Youth in Europe' and later the same year Victoria received a special commendation from the Royal Society for Public Health "to recognise the quality & innovation of the program & its contribution to the field of arts and health". Victoria is a member of the judging panel for the European Healthcare Design Awards.

 

Victoria started her early career as an artist, studying fine art at Glasgow School of Art. She exhibited in the UK and in Europe and was commissioned by the BBC. Victoria was selected as one of Sotheby's International Young Artists of 1999, exhibiting at Sotheby's in Tel Aviv and Chicago.