Georgia Anne

Georgia Anne (she/her) is a proud Central and Eastern Arrernte woman and a multi-disciplinary artist living in Naarm on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

Through a multi-disciplinary practice, and a thoughtful melding of traditional and contemporary styles, Georgia’s works are a journey of identity, challenging conventional labelling in the modern art world, and unapologetically confronting biases that seek to pigeonhole her as solely an ‘Aboriginal artist’. Her work provokes the viewer to consider the boundaries that block participation from those working outside of confines of the artistic institution. Inspired by First Nations collectives like Proppa Now and This Mob, Georgia seeks to redefine the boundaries of what it means to make art as a First Nations woman.

Working across a range of mediums, many designated the less-acclaimed classification of ‘craft’, Georgia seeks to question why mediums traditionally occupied by women and Indigenous peoples, such as fibre arts and ceramics, are still considered lesser forms of art. Her works questions what it means to be a First Nations artist, explored in her large, meditative acrylic paintings that blend traditional Central Australian Aboriginal styles with contemporary materials and forms, woven forms that blur the line between sculpture and utility, and hand-built ceramics that speak to her insistence at creating slow, deliberate art that sits in contrast to the rapidity of modernity.