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                    Georgia Nowak

                    2021: Round 1

                    Lab test #08

                    Georgia Nowak is an artist and architect whose practice examines and documents environments in flux.

                    ​Working between the mediums of built-form, film, photography and sculpture the works attempt to navigate the complex issues of land use and the ever-changing relationship between ecology, society and place. She is currently living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation in Naarm (Melbourne).

                    Her latest essay film Aurum, created in collaboration with artist Eugene Perepletchikov, explores the human fascination with gold as a symbol of power. The work was awarded the inaugural Mercedes Benz Design Week award 2020 and has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).

                    Her work has recently been exhibited at c3 gallery Melbourne, Galeria Balucka, Lódz Poland and Melbourne Design Week 2020, 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.

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                    The Birrarung captures litres of polluted water, debris and waste from the CBD and further afield daily. The effect on the ecology of the water and its micro habitat is devastating.

                    The sculpture is ‘active’ in that it tests and treats polluted water, inviting audiences to view the work over a period of months as it cycles through a treatment process. With permission from Traditional Owners, water from the Birrarung will be siphoned into the proposed form. Treated water will sit in stark contrast to the untreated water of the river, articulating the severity of the pollutants circulating in this system.

                    Through shadow-play, refraction and changing tides the project aims to activate the river's edge thus facilitating a new understanding of water treatment and urban water health.

                    This project envisages water as valuable resource, as monument, as politics and as health.

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