Like any modest artist, Georgia finds it hard to
describe how she feels about her work, “I either love
my work entirely or hate it passionately.” However
its not the art itself that’s the important thing, it’s the
message that’s behind the art that Georgia wants to
make most powerful, “Each project I do usually has
a different message. Overall I just want people to be
comfortable with their bodies, their gender and their
selves. There’s such a huge amount of oppression
put upon women, and especially upon queer women.
I think it’s incredibly important to show that these
issues with gender and appearance of the female
form need to disappear.” It’s great to hear that
Georgia receives loads of great feedback from her
art. “ It’s quite easy to imagine people being rather
small minded and quick to form an opinion on art so
provocative, “Often I get some negative comments,
or people who misunderstand my work - but these
comments are usually from straight white guys who
still thinking feminism is setting fire to everyone
with a penis with your own burning bra. College
is sometimes a hard environment to work in, with
a lot of sexist/homophobic comments flying around
but all it does is inspire me to try harder to make
a change.” Yet with a massive online following,
her ‘Building a nest for womanhood’ piece being
constantly posted on Twitter and with over 60,000
notes on Tumblr, Georgia is becoming quite internet
famous for her feminist pieces. “It’s very nice to
always be able to look back at pieces I’ve posted
on twitter and Tumblr and Instagram and think ‘I’m
doing alright, aren’t I?’ I’m even amazed anyone
would want to ask me questions like you are now! I
often see myself as such a silly, insignificant person.
I hadn’t really grown up wanting to be an artist, but
I took art because I liked doing it. It was more after
creating my first piece that gained good feedback
online that I thought “hang on” and decided to drop
my English course and focus more on this.” Georgia
gushes a little, with people on the other side of the
world asking to buy her pieces, she can really start
to believe that her art, with such a strong message
so different with each piece, is reaching people that
understand it.
As an intersectional feminist, Georgia is after a
change. An intersectional feminist is someone that
recognises that people have multi-layered facets in
life that that have to deal with, such as racism and
sexism. In a perfect world this change would be the
levels of oppression that people have to face every
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