Victoria Lane

Victoria Lane is the Senior Curator of Art and Identity, responsible for Contemporary Art, at Royal Museums Greenwich.  Through socially engaged methodologies she is interested in embedding inclusive and diverse practices in the arts and heritage sectors. Originally trained as an archivist, she has worked at Tate, the Henry Moore Institute, Black Cultural Archives and Shakespeare’s Globe. With Judy Vakin, she co-edited the book All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist, Libri Press 2013 and established the Art Archives Consultancy. They worked with contemporary British artists including Richard Deacon, Barry Flanagan, Sir Frank Bowling and on a decade-long collaboration with Barbara Steveni, recently contributing to the catalogue of her first solo show at Modern Art Oxford (2025). From 2021-23, she worked at Lloyd’s of London, leading research into its historical links to the Transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans and supported on the Corporations’ reparative £53 million ‘Inclusive Futures’. Lane operated as an ‘incidental person’ and developed a series of networks, partnerships and collaborations with academics, archivists, curators, communities and artists to provide critical accountability and embed diverse histories for the first time at Lloyd’s. The principal collaboration was with the US Black digital humanities research group, Black Beyond Data, and the digital humanities platform ‘Underwriting Souls’.