BIO

Georgia Gardner is a queer Scottish artist and researcher. She works with movement and composition to explore embodiment, rebellion, and social reproduction. Her work is led by our introspective rebellions. Unseen but felt. Intuitive. Balancing autonomy, care, and tenderness, she resists against the imposed rhythms of (re)production and its judgmental bearing on our existence. 

‘Introspective, internally rebellious, and founded in care’

- Format Festival 2023

AWARDS

2021 - Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries.

2021 - Visual Arts Scotland’s Graduate Showcase Award.

2021 - Edinburgh Futures Institute Student Research Award.

ARTS WORK

From 2023 - Trauma-informed participatory arts consultant.

From 2021 - Researcher in a co-productive research team, Dance/Connect at UCL X WHO.

PUBLICATIONS

2024 - Youth Journal (Special Issue), Arts and Mental Health Co-Research with Youth Advisors: The Role of Emotions, Creating Community, Learning and Growth.

2022 - McPin Foundation, Co-production, Commoning, and Community Empowerment.

2021 - Women’s History Network, Disability, Dance, and an Oppressive Mobilisation of Looking.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Gestures of Resistance, 501 Xu Art Space, Chongqing, China.

2023 - Gestures of Resistance, Format Festival, Derby Quad, England.

2023 - RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2022 - RSA 196th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2022 - VAS Annual Exhibition, online.

2021 - The ECA Graduate Showcase, online.

2021 - The Utility Room, collaboration with Keziah MacNeill in our rented flat.

2021 - You Are Here, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2020 - Stories, Portraits, Visions, (online Exhibition) National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2020 - Shanghai International College of Fashion and Innovation X Edinburgh College of Art, Shanghai, China.

2020 - Works on Paper, The Rafiki Gallery, London and Edinburgh, UK.

2020 - Field Test, Silvermine Mountains, remote film screening organised by Aideen Barry, Munster, Republic of Ireland.

2018 - Gone Fishing, DOK Artists’ Space, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2017 - Synergy, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, Scotland.

2017 - A Shed Full of Artists, DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2017 - Body as Artistic Material, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.

EVENTS/FEATURES

2022 - Scottish Ballet, Moving Minds - Immersive Conference with Dance/Connect, Tramway, Glasgow.

2021 - National Galleries of Scotland, International Women’s Day #IWD2021 social media campaign.

2021 - Lucy Writers’ Platform, Personal Video Essay "Dance - Alone - Together", online distribution.

2020 - Sharing Research Series, artist talk and workshop about my practice, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2019 - Women’s Strike Assembly: National Spring Gathering, Partisan Collective, Manchester, England.

2019 - Canvas Magazine, issue eight, physical distribution UK.

2017 - Luisa Magazine, UK based.

EDUCATION

2021 - 2022 - The University of Edinburgh, MSc. Thesis: ‘Can Art Support Recovery’ - Distinction.

2016 - 2021 - Edinburgh College of Art, Master’s of Fine Art.