Georgia’s practice attempts to navigate the complex ever-changing relationship between ecology, society and place. Her latest essay film Aurum 2020, created in collaboration with filmmaker Eugene Perepletchikov, explores the human fascination with gold as a symbol of power, and was awarded the inaugural Mercedes Benz Design Week award 2020. This film was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and is on display at NGV Australia.
Recent work has been exhibited at c3 gallery, Melbourne; Galeria Bałucka, Łódż, Poland; and Melbourne Design Week, supported by funding from the City of Melbourne, NGV and Centrum Dialogu Poland. Georgia is currently a teaching associate within the Art, Design and Architecture department at Monash University. The academic rigour of the faculty is embedded in her practice and forms a critical component of her research driven approach.
Channel
Channel 2021-22, acknowledges the Birrarung (Yarra River) as a living entity and highlights the value of water as central to ecological survival. This public artwork acts as a provocation around water health and asserts the value of the Birrarung as a lifeblood of the city.
For this project 1300 litres of polluted stormwater siphoned from the Yarra River below, filled a two-metre-high clear tank installed on Evan Walker Bridge, Southbank. Over the duration of the project, natural processes utilising organic materials found in the local Bandalong litter traps, including microscopic insects, aquatic snails, endemic plants and macrophytes as well as charcoal created from timber, helped to increase oxygen levels and neutralise impurities in this water sample. The transformed water was then returned to the river at the completion of the process.
Test Sites Phase 2 was co-produced by City of Melbourne and Testing Grounds and curated by Arie Rain-Glorie. The resulting projects were presented as part of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s Who’s Afraid of Public Space? program.