GEORGIE JOHNSON

Georgie Johnson is a New Zealand artist known for her expressive and ambiguous figurative works. Georgie's practice is process driven and often meditates on the conscious and unconscious, re-imagining a time passed or an imagined reality.

Georgie is a self-taught artist with a degree in Art History and English Literature from the Victoria University of Wellington. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she immigrated with her family to Pōneke/Wellington in 1996.

Georgie's 'Old Ways' collection are minimalist works that embrace drawing techniques by utilising a selective colour palette and direct painting onto raw cotton canvas. Historically, deities and mythology were methods to understand and contextualise nature, society and the scientific world. By casting an eye back in time, the concepts present in 'Old Ways' seek to occupy the abstract space where the human form is expressed in relation to nature and science. Georgie's work embraces the idea that boundaries between fiction and fact are blurred when human experience and expression are the lenses.