Georgina Glanville uses a diverse range of materials including fabrics, papers, paints, dye, earth, ecological matter, video, and found imagery to produce installations that reflect on the impermanence of human and natural ecologies, explore an ever-changing world and on a more personal level, reveal the changes and cycles at play in her own life.
With a heavy focus on the physical, often rudimentary act of making, Georgina Glanville’s visceral and bodily installations invite the viewer into an invented world. Her organically abstract forms, reminiscent of indigenous structures or shelters, seeds, or pods, carry universal meanings that cross cultural and linguistic boundaries, and refer to fundamentally human qualities and conditions. These shapes and forms might be seen as places of protection and comfort, or archetypal symbols of wombs or birthplaces.
Georgina Glanville’s work represents a kind of anti-progress or alternate growth, an antidote to notions of progress, and instant gratification. Her installations are often deliberately transient, shifting and morphing during their lifespan. Wet timber rots or discolours, plants grow and die; reflecting the way the world, the self, and the work are in a constant state of entropy and transformation.
