Gabrielle de Vietri (born 1983) is a member of the

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elected in the

2022 Victorian state election The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday, 26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) and all 40 seats in the Legislative Council (upper house) were up for el ...

for the electoral district of Richmond.

Life and career

In 2003, de Vietri earned a Visual Arts Certificate from the , followed by a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

in 2005 and a Master of Fine Art from

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

in 2013. She worked as a professional artist until 2019, undertaking numerous residencies and grant projects. In 2020, de Vietri ran for the

City of Yarra The City of Yarra is a local government area (LGA) in Victoria, Australia in the inner eastern and northern suburbs of Melbourne. It is the second smallest LGA in the state with an area of , and in June 2018 it had a population of 98,521, ma ...

as a councillor for Langridge Ward, and was elected. She soon became Mayor of the City of Yarra. De Vietri announced in August 2022 that she would be taking leave from her role at the City of Yarra due to her running in the 2022 state election. She was then announced as the Greens candidate for the

division of Richmond The Division of Richmond is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. History The division was proclaimed in 1900, and was one of the original 65 divisions to be contested at the first federal election. The division i ...

. De Vietri was successful in this election.

Personal life

De Vietri identifies as

queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century. Beginning in the lat ...

, making her the first openly LGBTQ woman elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:de Vietri, Gabrielle 1983 births Living people Victorian College of the Arts alumni Monash University alumni Artists from Victoria (Australia) Australian women artists Mayors of Yarra Women mayors of places in Victoria (Australia) Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Women members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Australian Greens members of the Parliament of Victoria LGBT legislators in Australia Victoria (Australia) local councillors