Georgina Fuller

Coloured architectural features in Pâte de verre glass

Georgina is a 23-year-old London-based Australian ceramics and glass artist. She developed a particularly keen interest in ceramics at an early age; influenced by her artistic mother, she practised it throughout her years of schooling. After graduating from high school in 2017, her work was accepted into Art Express and nominated for Shape, two highly regarded exhibitions for Australian high school graduates in art and design. In 2018 she was accepted at the University of Arts London, where she completed a BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design (2021).

Following the completion of her BA, Georgina applied to the RCA to study for an MA in Ceramics and Glass from which she will graduate in 2023. After spending her first year expanding her technical and conceptual knowledge of ceramics, she has dedicated her second year to exploring glass, creating a body of work in casting & pâté de verre.

As an emerging artist she hopes to eventually exhibit in major galleries and shows and to teach others how rewarding and exciting it is to work with such versatile materials.

In this project Georgina’s interest in classical architecture was influenced by Escher’s mind-bending graphics and the geometric style of Art Deco. This informed her creative desire to approach the project as if it were a collage, with the idea of puzzling these shapes out and putting them together in fun and unique ways. This provided the freedom to investigate how different processes can inform an artwork’s appearance and how one might perceive it. Her contemporary approach uses the translucent, ghostly qualities of glass to meditate on morphism and fluidity, creating a sense of dimension and transience. These ambiguous forms allow viewers to glimpse nuances of the past or find some echo within memory. Akin to the work of contemporary graphic artists such as Paul Milinski, her work tells stories through colour and shape, playing on wonder and imagination while evoking feelings of nostalgia and familiarity related to an individual experience.