[5] Trusted joined the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1979, where she worked on British and Spanish sculpture as well as extensively on European decorative arts in the V&A collection such as ambers, ivories, and medals.
[3][8] She gave the keynote lecture at The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) conference Uniqueness and Multiplication: Plaster as an Art Material in October 2017 on the Cast Courts project.
The exhibition included works by Thomas Banks, Antonio Canova, Joseph Nollekens, and Bertel Thorvaldsen.
She is a Visiting Fellow at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts (2025) and is currently working on a book on the Spanish baroque sculptor Luisa Roldán with Catherine Hall-van den Elsen.
Trusted's work on The Arts of Spain: Iberia and Latin America 1450–1700 (2007) was praised as "excellent" and "highly reliable".