Georgina Cue creates staged spatial backdrops for performance-based video, photography and sculptural assemblage. Her practice uses failure, play, and absurdity to examine the material limitations of representational strategies employed within canonical cinema and historical art movements. Through this approach, her work explores the constructed nature and framing conditions of pictorial space and moving images.
Georgina Cue (b. 1987) lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. She received a BFA (honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011, University of Melbourne, where she is currently a lecturer. Her work has been exhibited at significant galleries and institutions, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong; Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Gertrude Contemporary Art Gallery; Melbourne, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart; National Art School Gallery, Sydney; QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; UNSW Art & Design, COFA, Sydney; McClelland Gallery, Victoria; and Sullivan + Strumpf, Singapore. Cue’s work can be found in notable public collections across Australia, such as the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Artbank, Sydney, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo among others.
She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the Australia Coucil Career Development Grant (2018), the NAVA Australian Artist Grant (2016), the Australia Council New Work Grant (2015), the Australia Council JUMP National Mentorship Program (2013), the Nava Sainsbury Sculpture Grant (2013), the Australia Council Artstart Grant (2012), the NAVA Friedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship (2012), the Dowd Foundation Scholarship (2008) and the Myer Foundation Award (2008).
I acknowledge and pay respect to the Wurundjeri people who are the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work in Naarm Melbourne. I pay respect to elder's past, present and emerging of the Kulin Nation.