About Me

 

 

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

I am a London-based visual artist working primarily in painting and site-specific installation. My practice explores Black womanhood, archival presence, and the visual legacies of mythology, biblical storytelling, and the Western gaze. Through research-led inquiry and spatial experimentation, I investigate how Blackness is mythologised, misrepresented, or erased, particularly in institutional spaces not built to hold or honour our stories.

Working with the home as gallery, I use domestic space as both subject and site: a parallel structure and disruptor to the formal art institution. Rather than performing resistance within Eurocentric frameworks, my practice exists beside them — asserting presence, authorship, and visibility on its own terms. My work interrogates the politics of representation without seeking revision or permission, functioning instead as a living archive of being.

Humour, myth, biblical narrative, and domestic familiarity are tools I use to challenge the Eurocentric structures that have historically mythologised and misread Blackness. The home, in my current project, becomes not only a site of storytelling but a living gallery and archive—one that asserts presence without permissions or performance.

Alongside my visual practice, I am passionate about intergenerational learning and creative facilitation. Having previously designed and led workshops for children that centre storytelling, visual expression, and confidence-building through art. I believe in cultivating spaces where young people, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds can explore creativity without the need to conform or perform.

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.