Georgia Arnold

GEORGIA ARNOLD is an emerging artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland who completed a BFA (First Class Honours) at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2019. She works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Her organic and intuitive practice generates artefacts that explore themes of worldbuilding, materiality, fragmentation and disposition.

Some of Georgia’s recent exhibitions include SAW-SEE_SEE-SAW, Sanc Gallery, Auckland, 2020; Conditioner, The Pah Homestead, Auckland, 2020; Fresh 2020, Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington, 2020; Drawn Spaces, Elam Graduate Show, Auckland, 2019; Eden Arts Art Schools Awards, Webbs, Auckland, 2019; Paper Show, Furniture Gallery, Auckland, 2019.
I’ve been reading The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant & Kathleen Stewart. It's a compilation of works that are constrained to one hundred words, or multiples of one hundred. I am enjoying the short snippets of scenes, topics and narratives that are easy to get through while I eat breakfast, but linger on, leaking into the rest of the collection and permeating my day. I see parallels in how this book addresses ideas of world-making and my art practice.
I feel that I’m going through a period of taking things in and producing slightly less. I have been going for walks and trying to keep a diary of daily drawings and entries. Recently, I have been experimenting with beeswax, extending casting processes as well as continuing to draw and paint. I've been considering the fantasies and realities of isolation and self sufficiency - probably lockdown influenced interests. I've been enjoying watching videos about permaculture, small houses, augmented reality sandboxes and DIY desk fountains.
This reading made me consider the spaces between things as a site of action and interrelation rather than absence. It highlights the significance of liquidity through wet interpretations of knowledge, geography, connections, reading and art.
These videos have inspired me to cast my aluminium drawings into clay and concrete, creating a track for water to flow through - a liquid drawing. These works are still in progress.
These videos have inspired me to cast my aluminium drawings into clay and concrete, creating a track for water to flow through - a liquid drawing. These works are still in progress.
These videos have inspired me to cast my aluminium drawings into clay and concrete, creating a track for water to flow through - a liquid drawing. These works are still in progress.
Where I've been walking
Ceramic charms – The charms are produced with scraps of clay as a pre-clean up routine after making larger items. They are used in installations, as decoration, gifted or worn. Earlier this year I made myself a good luck necklace before I worked on a mural project.
Aluminium Open Sand Casts – I started making these aluminium casts towards the end of last year, and completed a series of them at the beginning of this year. I see them as chunky drawings, the larger works are like lattices, while the smaller ones are more like oversized wall charms.
Drawing makes up a large part of my practice, I like how immediate it is as a process. They can be imaginative, loosely auto-biographic, impulsive and somewhat cathartic as I work through the images formally and intuitively.
Diary drawing, 2020
Sketches for metal casting
Clay pressed over metal
Aluminium open sand casting
Backbend, 2019
What's that in human years?, 2020 – part of the group show 'SAW-SEE_SEE-SAW' at Sanc Gallery
Drawn Spaces, 2019 (Elam Graduate Show)
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    UntitledGeorgia Arnold
    2019
    Pencil, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas
    1150 x 1570mm
    $500 unframed, $700 framedEnquire to purchase
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    Scenic DeckGeorgia Arnold
    2020
    Pencil, tinted graphite, pastel, oil pastel on paper
    297mm x 420mm
    $300 unframed, $500 framedEnquire to purchase
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    CharmsGeorgia Arnold
    2020
    Ceramic
    Various Dimensions
    $45 eachEnquire to purchase
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    Star/Sun CharmGeorgia Arnold
    2020
    Open sand cast aluminium
    560mm x 750mm
    $700Enquire to purchase
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    Bulb/Growth CharmGeorgia Arnold
    2020
    Open sand cast aluminium
    560mm x 735mm
    $700Enquire to purchase
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