EDUCATION 2006-08 University College Falmouth. Cornwall M.A. Fine Art: Contemporary Practice 1986-89 Central Saint Martin’s College of Art. London. B.A. (Hons) Fine Art based Constructed Textiles. 1983-84 Maidenhead College of Art and Design. Berkshire. Foundation Course.
SOLO SHOWS 2009 ‘Fishing for Litter’ initiative. Filming on Newlyn fishing boats ‘Plastic Planet Blues’ King Harry Ferry. Embark Ferry Art. Cornwall ‘Fishing for Litter’ collaboration Newlyn Fish Festival.Art installation. Cornwall. Ponsharden jetty and embarking shelter. Site-specific, participatory, textual art-activism. ‘Cries from the Toxic Oceans 2’ art-activist texts onboard 5 St.Mawes ferries & park & float ferries. Falmouth. Cornwall Fal River Festival. Greenbanks Hotel. Art Installation 2008 Porthtowan clean and survey ten day art/photo project for Surfers Against Sewage ‘Cries from the Toxic Oceans’ Site-specific, art-activist event at the British Plastics Federation H.Q. Hackney. London, (Chemical Policy Conference) ‘Womb of Gaia: Moment by Moment, Breath by Breath’ meditation walk. Gwithian 2007 Project Space. Arwenack. U.C.F. Falmouth. Cornwall Site-Specific, art-activist texts sea front railings. Jubilee Pool to Newlyn Art Gallery. 2004 The Dissenters’ Chapel Gallery. Kensal Green. Londo The Questors Theatre. West Ealing. London 2002 Penzance Art Club. Chapel Street. Penzance. Cornwall 2001 Pause Organic Café/Gallery. Shoreditch. London 1997 The Centre for Alternative Technology. Machynlleth. Wales 1996 Junk Sculptures, site-specific. Woon Gumpus Common. Pendeen. Cornwall 1995 Site-specific performance. Fox road kills and ceremonies. Woon Gumpus. Pendeen. Cornwall
GROUP SHOWS 2010
'Alternate'. The Exchange Gallery. Penzance. Cornwall
The Affordable Art Fair. Battersea. London
Lloyd Gill Gallery. Somerset
2009 ‘The Way We Are: A Museum of Now.’ NXNW Art Festival. Manchester ‘Darwin 200. Voyages of Discovery’. Falmouth Art Gallery. Cornwall. 2008 M.A. Show. Lamorva House. University College Falmouth Penzance Art Club. Chapel St. Penzance 2007 Revolver. Penzance. Cornwall ‘Helix Hybrid’ site specific spiral staircase. Interim Show. U.C.F. Falmouth. Cornwall The Standard. Flushing Art Week. Cornwall Surfers Against Sewage (S.A.S.) HQ. St. Agnes. Cornwall 2006 Gwithian Beach collaboration with S.A.S. The Salt Gallery. Fore St. Hayle. Cornwall 2005 Summer Show. Penzance Art Club. Chapel St. Penzance. Cornwall. 2003 Sancreed House/The Old Rectory. Sancreed. Cornwall Fabrications Gallery. Broadway Market. Hackney. London. WC1 2001 Salthouse Gallery. St. Ives. Cornwall Spring Gallery. Falmouth Art Centre. Falmouth. Cornwall 2000 Penzance Art Club. Chapel St. Penzance. Cornwall The Eclipse Gallery. Penzance. Cornwall 1999 Friends of the Earth Gallery Space. Penzance. Cornwall The Bakehouse Gallery. Chapel St. Penzance. Cornwall 1997 The Market Garden Gallery. Bread St. Penzance. Cornwall Royal Cornwall Show. Wadebridge. Cornwall Radio Cornwall Foyey. Truro. Cornwall 1995 Mulabalu Gallery. Redruth. Cornwall The Foyey, Truro College. Truro. Cornwall 1993 The Spring Gallery. Falmouth Art Centre. Cornwall Art Space Gallery. Portobello Rd. Notting Hill Le Metro. Notting Hill Gate. London 1991 The Oasis Gallery. Georgia. USA Olympia. Mind, Body and Spirit Exhibition. Kensington. London 1990 The Asahi Gallery. Golbourne Rd. Portobello. London. 1989 BA Show. Central St. Martins College of Art. Southampton Row. London
PUBLICATIONS 2010
a-n journal
Aesthetica magazine
2009 www.newlyn.info. ‘Artist helps highlight the problem of plastic marine pollution’ The Herald. ‘Plastic’s not so fantastic’ The West Briton. ‘Artist embarks on ferry to convey message through work’ Cornish Guardian. ’Artist raises awareness on King Harry Ferry Western Morning News ‘‘Fishing for Litter’ collaborates with contemporary artist’ ‘The Way We Are: A Museum of Now’ North by North Western (NXNW) catalogue Fal River Festival events catalogue EMBARK Ferry Art catalogue ‘Drift’ surf magazine The West Briton ��Celebrating the Darwin Connection’ ‘Inside Cornwall’ magazine. ‘Darwin 200.Voyages of Discovery’ Falmouth Art Gallery catalogue Surfers Against Sewage website article. ’Return to Offender’ Nigel Ayers online review 2008 Revolver Art Cornwall. U.C.F. Pipeline S.A.S. magazine. collection of 10,000 plastic pellets in a bottle Master the Arts.2009. University College Falmouth Postgraduate Prospectus. 2007 The Cornishman ’Surfers Against Sewage collaborate with ‘eco-artist’ POST. 1st Edition. 2006 The Cornishman. ‘’Eco-artist’ staging beach tidy’ 2002 Hip Hotels Guide. Herbert Ypma. Thames and Hudson.
PERMANENT COLLECTION 2009 Falmouth Art Gallery. Cornwall
ART...GeorginaMaxwell's art...compeling ...contemporary eco-marine artist... more awareness of the environmental catastrophe of plastic pollution in the oceans and the devastating effect this is having on marine wildlife and their ecosystems.
Georgina Maxwell ▪ Falmouth. Cornwall, United Kingdom ▪ 01326 250074
