Georgia Russell is a Scottish artist who established her reputation with works where she slashed, cut and dissected printed matter, and transformed books, music scores, maps, newspapers and photographs.
From the beginning of her career, Russell has been interested in layering, repetition and pattern. She studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art in London, and her practice initially developed from her early explorations in making prints and subsequently working using cutting and collage with books and already printed ephemera. She likes to draw, and the scalpel has come to replace pen or pencil as she uses it to draw ‘in negative’. The atmosphere of the original material she uses is extremely important to her, and her use of either new, or of older papers or images redolent of past lives, is dependent on the mood or idea that she wants to communicate.
via inag & england gallery
