Georgia Hill (b.1988) is a multidisciplinary Australian artist, based in Paris, France. Her practice moves through the international street art and contemporary art worlds, focusing on type-based, monochromatic artworks and installations.
"I perceive architecture and landscapes as both physical and psychological, using my own visual language and writing to respond to changing sites and experiences. I'm constantly collecting references, photography and notes, and manipulating these across painted canvases, installations and fabric banner works. This documentation acts as a personal account and starting point to abstract, break down and forge my own scenes, emphasising fragments of conversation and emotion through abstracted or exaggerated scale, type and composition.
Rather than working towards a final aesthetic, I'm constantly responding to sites through different mediums, language, and scale, where I use spaces to inform and express moments of vulnerability, clarity and total overwhelm. My work moves within the predetermined lines of existing structures and facades, as monochromatic pieces emphasise a specific moment by cutting through the endless visual cues we take in every day. This approach embraces a constant duality, where controlled, tight lettering pushes against the always changing nature of shared spaces and experiences".
Hill has proved herself to be one of Australia’s leading street artists with a contemporary and conscious touch to her materials, surrounds and conceptual approach, working throughout Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Japan, Jordan, Iceland, Canada, and The United States.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 PADA Artist Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2024 Highly Commended, The Glover Prize, Tasmania, Australia
2023 La Cuna x Void Projects Artist In Residence, Cádiz, Spain
2022 The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
2022 Finalist, Lake Mac Art Prize, Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie yapang.
2022 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2018 JOYA AiR, Parque Natural Sierra María, Andalucía, Spain
2017 NES Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 TO BE AND DO, Art Aid/George St, Sydney, NSW Australia
2023 HOLD IT, HOLD ON, Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, VIC Australia
2019 A MEASURE OF ALL THINGS, Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia
2018 I CAN SEE IT, CAN’T YOU, China Heights, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2017 I THINK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME, Commune , NSW, Australia
2016 INVERSE, Jacaranda Images for Amman Design Week, Amman, Jordan
2015 OVERPOWER, GoodSpace, Sydney, Australia
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 TO MOVE THROUGH, The University Gallery, University of Newcastle, NSW Australia
2023 UPRIVER/DOWNRIVER, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, NSW Australia
2022 12,143, curated by Axel Void, ARTXIV, FFTT, Seattle, WA USA
2020 SIGN OF THE TIMES, Hashimoto Contemporary, NYC, USA
2020 LOCALS, Outre Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
2020 HERE I AM: ART BY GREAT WOMEN, National Gallery of Australia, ACT, Australia
2020 Bushfire Brandalism Poster Box Take Over, QLD, NSW, VIC, Australia
2020 RISE, Bushfire Relief Fundraising Group Show, Carriageworks, Syd, NSW, Australia
2018 CONTROL & DISORDER, Galerie 42b, Paris, France
2018 TYPOGRAFFIC CIRCLE, Stolen Space Gallery, London, UK
2016 SOFT, curated by Sean Morris and Michael C. Hsiung, Superchief Gallery LA, CA, USA
2016 SPRING TIME, curated by Melissa Grisancich, RVCA Corner Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2015 MAD MAX at The Sydney Opera House/Graphic
2015 BeStreet's 'Bootleg’, HNYPT, Los Angeles & BeStreet Weekend Paris
SELECT COMMISSIONED WORKS
2024 SEE HOW YOU FEEL, Art & About, City Of Sydney, NSW Australia (Forthcoming)
2024 FLOW, FOLD, Equinix Alexandria, NSW Australia (Forthcoming)
2022 With Kate Constantine, Westfield Parramatta, NSW Australia
2021 With Maddie Gibbs, Westfield Mt Druitt, NSW Australia
2021 VISY Warehouses with Juddy Roller, Spotswood VIC Australia
2020 YOU’RE HERE, I’M HERE TOO, Marrickville Metro with Inner West Council, NSW Australia
2020 YOU CAN COME BACK, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW Australia
2020 WITH YOU, Burwood Council, Wynne Ave, NSW Australia
2020 Ashfield Aquatic Centre, Inner West Council, NSW Australia
2019 I’M HERE, I’M READY, Art & About, City Of Sydney, NSW Australia
2019 R2, Goose Island, Chicago, IL USA
2019 With Elizabeth Close, Westfield Tea Tree, SA Australia
2018 Coomera, Westfield Coomera, QLD Australia
2018 Northbridge with Elliott Routledge, Perth, WA Australia
SELECT WALLS AND FESTIVALS
2022 The Big Picture Fest, Newcastle, NSW Australia
2019 Artding, Erding, Germany
2019 Pangea Seed Foundation's Sea Walls, St Croix, US Virgin Islands
2019 St+Art India, Lodhi Colony, Delhi, India
2018 The Big Picture Fest, Port Pirie, SA, Australia
2018 SODO Track, Seattle, WA, USA
2018 Pangea Seed Foundation's Sea Walls, Cairns, QLD Australia
2017 Beyond Walls, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Pangea Seed Foundation's Sea Walls, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
2017 Pangea Seed Foundation's Sea Walls, Napier, New Zealand
2016 Tropica, Bali, Indonesia
SELECT CLIENTS & COLLABORATIONS
Google • Nike • Adidas • Adidas x Parley with Pangea Seed Foundation • Art And About for City Of Sydney • Museum Of Contemporary Art Workshops
The Sydney Opera House • Single O • The University of Technology, Sydney • Scentre Group • Penguin Books UK • Harmony Day x Ambush x SBS
TALKS, LECTURES AND PODCASTS
2023 Guest Lecture, Street Art, Melbourne University, Australia
2022 Vantage Point Radio
2018 Creative Keynote, Adobe Symposium, Australia
2018 Bench Talk with Tom Gerrard
2017 Guest Lecture, Visual Communications, University of Technology, Australia
2017 Make It Made It, Newcastle, Australia
2016 Creative Mornings Sydney, Australia
2015 Analogue/Digital, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
EDUCATION
Visual Communications, First Class Honours, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia