Georgia Boyd Russell

Georgia Russell manipulates, cuts and transforms books, music scores and maps. She resurrects her chosen materials for a new life and gives them new poetic meaning.

Georgia chooses her materials because they talk of their own history. They represent the many hands which have held them and the minds they have passed through.

In Georgia's universe books are re-invented and transformed. The process of reading and writing is visualised in her time consuming sculptures. The act of cutting is another representation of how we consume books and how we "become" what we read or write. It's as though we devour the books and keep fragments of them inside us.

Time passing is expressed by the obsessive process she applies and the actual act of manipulation throws the paper and texts into other realms of meaning.

Georgia invents a world where the creation and consumption of paper exists at the same time. The materials become part of our body, mind and spirit. Flourishing and fading, calm and opulent they are in a flux between living and dying.