About

Victoria George is an independent scholar and art historian working in the interdisciplinary realm of the history of colour ideas, art history, religion and material culture. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge where she went originally to study with the colour historian John Gage (Colour and Culture, 1995; Colour and Meaning, 2000), completing her work under Jean Michel Massing. She holds degrees from The Royal College of Art (Painting) and The Architectural Association in the History and Theory of Architecture, and was the recipient of a Paul Mellon Grant and a Millard Meiss publication grant for her book, Whitewash and the New Aesthetic of the Protestant Reformation, published by The Pindar Press, London, in 2012. She has taught religion and the arts at the University of Richmond in Virginia and Art History at the Art Institutes in Durham. She was born in California but left to go to London to the Rambert School of Ballet. She returned to the United States as an adult and is currently living in North Carolina. She is currently working on her second book, An Archeology of Whiteness which she hopes to complete in two years’ time (2021).