Georgia is a multidisciplinary artist who’s practice specialises in creating sculptures and photographic images that use wood, paper, ceramics, and found objects. She currently plays with the relationship between image and language. Georgia takes inspiration from wordplay, idioms, commonly used phrases, and narratives found in popular culture. She responds to these by depicting her own literal interpretations that stem from her critical and literal gaze on the world.

‘The Final Hurdle’ is a satirical response to the popular phrase used to communicate one’s failures, near achievements and challenges. The work shows seven hurdles incrementally increasing in height, ending in a pair of paper mache legs that leap out of the window following the final hurdle. The work embeds the alternative and realistic narrative that the final hurdle never really is, nor ever will be the last, and in some cases being impossible to jump over, hence the final hurdle reaching an absurd height of 180cm. At a first glance, the escaping legs which follow and protrude out of the open window invite the audience in with humour, although at a second glance it encourages the audience to ask what lies beyond the window. Georgia wants her audience to reflect on the phrase not only being words of encouragement, but also distracting us from and justifying life’s socio-economic disruptions.

Georgia aim’s to continue her artistic practice in Brighton after graduating and hopes to find a creative job alongside her early career as a working artist.