About Me

 

 

Georgina-Elizabeth
Visual Artist | Painter | Installation Artist | Arts Educator | Researcher

I am a London-based visual artist working through painting, site-specific installation, and domestic exhibition. My practice investigates Black representation, mythology, and authorship, with particular focus on how Black womanhood has been shaped, mythologised, and misread within Western visual culture.

My current research develops through Living Archive: The Home as Gallery, an ongoing site-specific project situated within my own home. The work explores what Black existence looks like when it is not produced in response to institutional frameworks or the white gaze. Using the home as both site and method, everyday life, family presence, and routine function as material, structure, and research process rather than backdrop.

Rather than revising misrepresentation within dominant systems, the project constructs a parallel space where Blackness is documented as it lives: unrehearsed, unperformed, and self-authored. Painting, installation, and unscripted domestic performance unfold over time, forming a living archive that remains active and unfinished.

Biblical and mythological narratives, particularly figures such as Eve, Medusa, and Eris, are used as analytical tools to examine how symbolic storytelling has historically disciplined, romanticised, or controlled Black women. These mythic frameworks are held alongside lived domestic experience, allowing multiple temporalities, lived, ancestral, and mythic, to coexist without resolution.

This practice does not operate as resistance or explanation. Instead, it asks what forms of representation, authorship, and knowledge become possible when Black presence is understood as already complete. While elements of the project are documented and shared, the work prioritises first-hand encounter and proximity, recognising that aspects of domestic life and embodied experience resist full translation.

Skills & Roles

  • Visual Artistry – Painting, mixed media, and installation

  • Site-Specific Practice – Home as gallery, spatial authorship, domestic narrative

  • Critical Research – Archival inquiry, Black feminist theory, decolonial critique

  • Arts Education – Children's workshop facilitation, storytelling through visual arts

  • Project Development – Concept to exhibition; grant writing and public programming

  • Collaborative Practice – Working with curators, performers, family, and community

Selected Projects

  • Living Archive: The Home as Gallery (2025 – ongoing)
    A site-specific installation and painting exhibition within the artist’s home.
    Challenges the Eurocentric gaze and institutional erasure by creating a parallel visual archive.

  • Medusa’s Apple (2024–25)
    Performance and installation project reinterpreting mythological figures (Medusa, Eve, Eris)
    as vehicles to explore power, shame, and Black womanhood outside dominant narratives.

  • Girls Uninterrupted (Creative Debuts, 2018)
    Group exhibition exploring femininity and autonomy through visual storytelling.

  • Say Your Mind Affirmation Cards (2018)
    Illustration commission for podcast host Kelechi Okafor — a collaboration on healing language and Black affirmation.

  • Prop Design for Bottle Up and Explode (2017)
    Theatrical design collaboration with director Kelechi Okafor — visual metaphors through objects and space.