GEORGINA WILLOUGHBY

Georgina seeks to convey a sense of place in her work, responding to the natural & human-made elements within place and landscape. Her semi-abstract compositions reflect a personal visual language of intuitive mark-making in which organic & textural shapes & motifs are exploited through the lithographic printing process. The process of lithography enables the spontaneous layering of expressive graphic marks to be printed in variations of rich, earthy colour.

Graduating from AC Arts in 2015 with a major in Printmaking, Georgina has since exhibited regularly in various group exhibitions, collaborations and community art projects within South Australia relating to themes of place, landscape & environment. In 2022 Georgina's body of lithographs were selected as a finalist in SALA Festival's Contemporary Art Award.

Georgina creates insitu on Kaurna Country & in her Stone & Quoin studio at 6 Manton Street, Hindmarsh.

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EDUCATION

BVAD 2010 – 2015 Adelaide College of the Arts Printmaking Major

PRIZES

2024 Finalist, 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape, Hahndorf Academy

2023 Finalist, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre

2022 Runner Up, City of West Torrens Art Prize, HAMRA Centre

2022 Finalist, SALA Festival The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award

2022 Finalist, Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize

2021 Finalist, Adelaide Hills Landscape Art Prize, Hahndorf Academy

2006 Highly Commended Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, SAM

2016 Finalist, Adelaide Parklands Art Prize, Adelaide Festival Centre

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024   Artist at Stone & Quoin Studios, Hindmarsh

2022   St Peters College Artist in Residence

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022    Attending Place, Centre for Creative Health, The RAH

2016    Palimpsest, SALA Festival, Curious Orange Haircutters,     

2015    Woodland Remains, Wheatsheaf Hotel, Thebarton

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 The Printmakers Mark, Wonderground Barossa

2023    Desire Lines, SALA Festival, Sauerbier House, Pt Noarlunga

2023    Stone & Quoin at Six, 6 Manton St Gallery, Hindmarsh

2022    SALA Festival, St Peters Artists in Residence Anniversary Exhibition

2022    West Side Stories, Mrs Harris’s Shop & CWT Council

2021    Weird Adelaide, Mrs Harris’ Shop, Torrensville

2020    PUSH, JPE Design Studio, Adelaide

2019    St Ignatius Art Show, Norwood 

2016    Afterlife, Gallery West Thebarton, Adelaide

2016    Scratch and Pierce, Gallery 1855, Adelaide

2015    Botanica, National Wine Centre, Adelaide

2014    Immersion: KI, Fisher Jeffries, Adelaide

2014    Immersion: KI, Fine Art Kangaroo Island Gallery,  Kingscote

2013    The View from the Edge, AC Arts Graduating Exhibition,  Light Square Gallery

 

COLLABORATIONS

2020    thedarkthatsurroundsus, with No Wave Poetry, The Wheatsheaf Hotel,Thebarton

2018 Vanishing Point, REAL, Adelaide Festival Centre Media Screens

2018    Graft, REAL, SALA Festival, Pt Adelaide various locations

2017    Rare Earth, REAL, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide

AWARDS/GRANTS

2022 City of West Torrens Art Prize Runner Up

2016 Helpmann Academy Grant, Residency, Barcelona  

2014 Helpmann Academy, Professional Development Grant, Immersion: Fleurieu

2015 AC ARTS ­Award for Excellence in Printmaking