Georgina Starr British, b. 1968

Georgina Starr is a British artist whose work came to international attention in the 1990s with her large-scale installations incorporating video, sound, sculpture, photography, drawing, text and performance. Her works follow complex and fragile emotional narratives in which she explores the female body and voice, identity, history and fiction to create multi-layered theatrical events. Described as: “magically complex works that challenge the viewer to re-examine the self, the unconscious and its ever-morphing biographies through a glittering and melancholic theatre of memory, mythology and fiction.” Starr’s artworks have featured in hundreds of exhibitions both in the UK and internationally over the last 30 years, including Tate Britain, Museum of Modern Art New York, Kunsthalle Zurich, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Venice Biennale and Glasgow International. Recent exhibitions include the performance commission Moment Memory Monument presented at Palazzo Reale in Milan, a survey exhibition Hello. Come here. I want you. at Frac Franche-Comté and a live performance commission Androgynous Egg for Frieze Projects. Her latest film work Quarantaine (43mins) was commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella, The Hunterian, Art Fund Moving Image Fund, Glasgow International and Leeds Art Gallery. The film premiered at Gl in 2021 before travelling to Leeds Art Gallery and Pinksummer Gallery, Genova in 2022. The film was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. Her latest performance artwork Gelato Balleto! a sculptural theatre for female voice, percussion, choreography and costume, commissioned by Paris fashion house Hermès, premiered in London last year.