Welcome to GEORGINA-ELIZABETH

BLACK CHIMAERA

Georgina-Elizabeth is a London-based visual artist and painter whose practice explores authorship, presence, and representation, particularly in relation to Black womanhood and the politics of the gaze. Working primarily through figurative painting and site-specific installation, she uses her own home as both subject and site, creating intimate, assertive environments that challenge the assumed neutrality and authority of traditional gallery spaces.

Her work serves as a dissection of how Western culture has mythologised and misrepresented Blackness. By interrogating classical mythology and biblical storytelling. Narratives long used to justify exclusion and control, she unravels the symbolic frameworks that have dehumanised Black women and upheld exploitative power structures. In doing so, she reclaims narrative space, creating a visual language that does not centre Eurocentric comfort but affirms Black presence on its own terms.

With a background in design and prop-making, Georgina’s practice is research-led and grounded in lived experience. Her current MA Fine Art Final project continues this inquiry, exploring how painting and domestic space act as tools for cultural authorship and spatial self-determination.

Artist Statement

My practice is not a reframe, a revision, or an appeal. It is a loud declaration.

I do not paint to be included in a canon built on exclusion, nor do I create for the comfort or comprehension of a Eurocentric gaze. My work is not about resistance; resistance implies the desire to belong to something that was never built for me. It is not resilience either, which still positions the dominant as central. My work exists beside those systems, not in response to them.

Through painting and site-specific installation, I create a living archive, a space where Blackness is self-defined and not subject to translation. My home is both context and collaborator. It carries memory, intimacy, matriarchy, and sovereignty. In this space, the work lives outside the institutional frame and beyond the boundaries of permission.

I dissect Western mythologies and biblical narratives not to revise them, but to expose how their symbols and archetypes have been used to construct and maintain systems of racialised and gendered control. Figures like Eve, Medusa, and Eris—women blamed, punished, and cast out—become entry points to challenge the visual language of subjugation and to articulate new ways of seeing and being.

This is not resistance. This is not reimagination. It is presence, as it has always been - complete, unapologetic, and enough.