Georgia Saxelby
Georgia Saxelby is an installation and social practice artist whose practice examines the relationship between architecture, power and dissent from a feminist perspective. Through sculpture, video, performance, and audience participation, her work invites collective actions and engages with archive-building, ritual-making, and inventing personal architectures to investigate new ways of representing oneself in public and institutional space. She is currently based between Sydney, Australia and Pittsburgh, USA where she is undertaking her Master of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University.
Saxelby has recently been awarded the 2019 Samstag Scholarship, the Australia Council of the Arts Career Development Grant and was a Finalist for the 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. In 2017-18, Saxelby was an Artist in Residence at the art and social impact incubator, Halcyon Arts Lab, Washington, DC, where she developed her largest work to date, To Future Women, a multi-museum intervention in Washington, DC in the aftermath of the 2017 Women’s March. It created a 20 year time capsule of letters written by the public to the next generation of women to historisise the march's anniversary and is currently occupying the Smithsonian Archives until 2037.
Saxelby has recently been awarded the 2019 Samstag Scholarship, the Australia Council of the Arts Career Development Grant and was a Finalist for the 2019 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. In 2017-18, Saxelby was an Artist in Residence at the art and social impact incubator, Halcyon Arts Lab, Washington, DC, where she developed her largest work to date, To Future Women, a multi-museum intervention in Washington, DC in the aftermath of the 2017 Women’s March. It created a 20 year time capsule of letters written by the public to the next generation of women to historisise the march's anniversary and is currently occupying the Smithsonian Archives until 2037.