“HOW IS YOUR COSTUME AGENTIVE?”

The physical experience of wearing these costumes is reflective of a personal emotional struggle. The costumes act upon the wearer to exacerbate these feelings and thus produce a sense of catharsis as those feelings are processed through performance within the costume. 

BIOGRAPHY

Georgia Frew lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She makes objects, costumes, performances, installations, paintings and drawings that explore themes of personal and collective ceremony, contemporary catharsis, social anthropology, sexuality, ritual objects and actions, and personal mythology. Her performative practice frequently incorporates elements of film, intuitive movement, sculpture and vocalization while her sculptural works engage with a variety of mediums, including elements of native flora and fauna as well as ceramics, textiles and various metals. 

 Through her performances she experiments with different catalysts for emotional experience, exploring the various effects of different places and objects, sounds and certain movements as well as using personal and collective history to elicit some form of cathartic occurrence. Her performances are deeply personal, but are often in response to ubiquitous issues of gender, race, sensuality and sexuality, societal norms and expectations, consumerist culture and, more recently, climate-related anxiety, grief and fear.