About
Georgia Arnold is an early-career artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her practice centres on environments that promote contemplation and imagination. Working intuitively, across diverse media, Arnold blurs figure and field, fantasy and reality to create a succession of ‘worlds within the world’. She reflects on the innate desire to establish a territory—a safe, delimited space that permits unbounded speculation. Arnold completed a BFA (First class honours) at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2019. She works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Her organic and intuitive practice generates artefacts that explore themes of worldbuilding, materiality, fragmentation and disposition.
Selected Exhibitions
Parakeets, Satchi&Satchi&Satchi, Auckland, 2022
MAC Graduate Awards Exhibition, Mairangi Arts Centre, Auckland, 2021
PLOT, Visions Gallery, Auckland, 2021
May Fair Art Fair, Furniture Gallery Booth (Satchi&Satchi&Satchi), Online, 2020
SAW-SEE_SEE-SAW, Sanc Gallery, Auckland, 2020
Conditioner, The Pah Homestead, Auckland, 2020
Fresh 2020, Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington, 2020
Drawn Spaces, Elam Graduate Show, Auckland, 2019
Eden Arts Art Schools Awards, Webbs, Auckland, 2019
Paper Show, Satchi&Satchi&Satchi, Auckland, 2019
Competitions / Awards
WSA National Youth Art Awards, Merit, 2020
Mairangi Arts Centre Graduate Award, 2019
Auckland Print Studio Prize, 2019
The Snickel Lane Urban Art Award, 2019
The University of Auckland Summer Research Scholarship, 2019
Highly Commended, Eden Arts Young Artists Awards, 2019
Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship, 2019
Elam Art Prize, 2018
Joint Overall Winner, Eden Arts Young Artists Awards, 2018
Press/Text
Notes on Ghost Picnics, written by Connie Brown, online column, The Art Paper, 2022
COLLECTIONS
Wallace Arts Trust Collection, Auckland
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Elam, University of Auckland, 2019