Georgia Sea

Our tenth Artist in Residence was Georgia Sea, a Community Artist specialising in performance, movement, visual arts and sensory and inclusive practice.

Georgia began the Residency by devoting time to her movement and mark making practice, which is built around sensing into the body and following the impulses that arise. Deeply informed by arts in health collective Moving Pieces, she used her time in the studio developing a practice that is responsive to and supportive of embodied experience, chronic health conditions and life transitions.

Georgia was 5 months postpartum at the beginning of the Residency and the thematic focal point quickly became Matrescence; a term that refers to the physical, emotional, and psychological changes that occur in a woman’s body and mind during pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood.  

Her end of Residency Exhibition ‘Landscapes of Matrescence’ opened with a Private View & Celebration in the chapel on Friday 12th July. Part of the chapel was transformed into Georgia’s studio and over the weekend opening she continued to develop her movement and mark making practice for audience to view.   

During the Residency Georgia created a body of work that explored the edges, taboos, epiphanies and contradictions in her experience of new motherhood. Her multi-disciplinary practice encompasses movement, somatics, mindful and expressive arts, drawing, painting, writing, sculpture and performance. 

She shared her practice with a group of new mothers during the Residency which shaped a workshop offered to new mothers over the Exhibition weekend. She hopes to develop this into a project to offer space to new mothers to process and play with their experience of the transformation of motherhood in the future. 

 You can find out more about the journey of Georgia’s Residency by listening to a recorded conversation between her and Sam, Arts & Wellbeing Producer at St Margaret’s House, on Substack here.  

Georgia also leads the Sandpit Arts project, based at St Margaret’s House, which creates space for adults to experiment with different visual art techniques alongside other artforms. She looks forward to seeing how the Residency will inform the next series of Sandpit Arts workshops, visioned for spring 2025. 

You can find Georgia and Sandpit Arts on Instagram 

Photographs by Adele Watts