Come and visit Georgia in her Studio as she takes over the chapel to show Landscapes of Matrescence and continues to develop her movement and mark making practice for audience to view. Landscapes of Matrescence culminates Georgia’s six month Artist Residency at St Margaret’s House developing a practice that is responsive to and supportive of embodied experience, chronic health conditions and life transitions. Her exhibition offers the chance to immerse yourself in her space while viewing the artwork … You may even see the artist at work!
The thematic focal point of the Residency has been 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. Using movement and somatic practices, mindful and expressive arts, writing, sculpture and performance, Georgia explores the edges, taboos, epiphanies and contradictions in her experience of new motherhood.
From pastel drawings inspired by internal visual imagery to clay work guided by bodily sensation and photographs of Georgia inhabiting a mask with primal gestures, the work is marked by a sense of the body’s intuitive and organic movement.
Integral to her practice is a growing understanding of the nervous system and trauma-informed practice and using this as a starting point for making work both individually and collectively that emerges from embodied experience. She is informed by and draws on the approach developed by Moving Pieces Collective, a unique performing arts in health collective which combines physical theatre approaches with the containment of psychotherapeutic practices, the Feldenkrais Method and emergent ideas relating to neuroscience.
Photography by Cathy Wren and Star Holden
Venue: The Chapel, St Margaret's House
Dates & times: Saturday 13th July, 12:00 - Sunday 14th July, 15:00
Tickets: Free to attend, Drop In!
Venue access
The Chapel is not a step-free venue, please get in touch if you have an access needs.
Join Georgia at the Landscapes of Matresence Private View & Celebration on Friday 12th July, book tickets here