Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 Georgia has championed and taught sustainable forms of contemporary printmaking. Recent highlights from her practice include a month-long residency at Aga Lab in Amsterdam researching non-toxic stone lithography, and winning the East London Printmakers’ Studio Bursary Award for talented emerging artists.

As a printmaker and muralist Georgia uses her art to unravel the interiors she moves through and lives within. She dissolves and dramatises everyday rooms and corridors, questioning notions of intimacy, belonging and confinement through the glaze of domesticity. Enclosed by these scenes Georgia is drawn into the warmth of her childhood; filling empty rooms with colourful figures and animals she collects from children’s books, novels, poetry, films and dreams. In these painterly reveries memories and imagination start to overlap playfully, illuminating the chimerical tangle of curiosity and longing that prompts each artwork. 

Whilst Georgia primarily uses contemporary printmaking techniques as an artist, her knowledge of classical printmaking strongly informs her mark-making processes. She is particularly interested in the interplay between modern, mechanised forms of print production and their traditional, hands-on counterparts. For example, Georgia loves the textural similarity between stone lithography and risography, a mechanised form of stencil printing which uses vastly less CO₂ than its digital counterparts. Whilst they are wildly different processes, the fine dither-dots produced by the riso stencil make a textural pattern similar to the rich grain found in litho stones. The natural translucency of riso ink also compliments the delicate potential of lithography’s liquid tusche. Georgia’s knowledge of each process assists how she interprets colour and pattern across both techniques, strengthening her capabilities in each medium. By highlighting the affinity they share, Georgia aims to bridge the divide between conventional and more accessible, contemporary printmaking techniques.

Georgia’s editions have been selected for renowned exhibitions such as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers IOPE and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. She has proposed and delivered creative projects for large organisations such as University of Arts London and Print Club London as well as for independent galleries, communities, charities, councils and individual clients. She has reliably budgeted and delivered large-scale mural installations, curated creative events and won a number of prizes and financial grants for her work as a professional artist. This year Georgia won the Jackson’s Art Prize Planographic Printmaking Award.

Community engagement is a massive part of Georgia’s practice. She is currently employed as a visiting workshop coordinator at The Art Station, a charity supporting creative outreach in rural East Anglia. Her role within the charity involves the supervision of inductions, open-access sessions, workshops and residencies with adults and children. Her work as a creative facilitator has recently also moved into the field of curation. In March 2023 she co-curated Unconsumed, a cross-generational, multi-disciplinary exhibition of nearly two hundred artworks championing underrepresented East Anglian artists. The exhibition was generously supported by a project grant from the East Anglia Art Fund. Unconsumed will be returning in 2024 with the generous support of a grant from the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society.

East London Printmakers, 2024