About Victoria Ryle

I started teaching grade prep-2 in schools in culturally diverse areas of London in 1983, including a language and literacy development team, and as the Language in the National Curriculum (LINC) advisory teacher in the London Borough of Hackney. I have been involved in publishing books with children as authors for over 30 years, including through my work with Kids' Own Publishing in Ireland and Australia.

In 1997 I founded Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership with artist Simon Spain in Ireland and subsequently established Kids’ Own Publishing in Melbourne in 2003 as not-for-profit arts organisations publishing books by children through artist-led community partnerships, and presenting on this practice worldwide. Currently I am co-director of all that we are, a residency and gatherings space just outside Hobart that includes ArTELIER Tasmania – a professional learning program for community engaged artists https://arteliertasmania.org.

Listen to a recent interview on ABC Breakfast Hobart Show with Ryk Goddard on a segment called ‘The world according to…:’

Qualifications:

1982: B.Ed. (Hons.), English Literature, Brighton Polytechnic

1992: MA Language and Literature in Education, UCL, Institute of Education

1996: Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) Registered Inspector, London

Research:

Part-time PhD candidate researching publishing books with children as transformative pedagogical praxis. This is a retrospective inquiry into a long term initiative to publish picture books by, with and for children and families in a range of education and community settings.