'What collage does incredibly well as an artform, especially in testing times, is provide an unbridled form of expression and much needed protest. I love the playfulness and intuitive free association of making collages. Using discarded materials, cutting and tearing away assumptions, including your own, is an essential part of the process.'
Georgina Coburn
In her latest series of mixed media collages, Coburn draws on stories of women from Greek mythology. We see Daphne transformed into a tree, freed from a world of violence and comforted in Nature's embrace. Psyche's famed beauty resists definition. Her traditional butterfly wings are split, a fragmented soul in a contemporary world, unknowable as the human psyche. Ariadne internalises the minotaur, confronting the monster in the mirror and holding the thread that ultimately leads out of the labyrinth. In each of these characters there is a transference of power and a tale of resilience, within and without.
Georgina Coburn (b. 1971) is a visual artist, writer and art historian. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, she lived in Canada, the UK and Ireland before settling in the Highlands of Scotland in 2000. Georgina works with a wide range of media including collage, pen and ink, watercolour, acrylic and oils.