Georgina Berens (b.1992) is a printmaker and artist living and working in Cape Town. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, the University of Cape Town in 2016 and received the Matthew Somers Memorial Prize in 2014.
In 2017 she completed a residency at the Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre in Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2019 she established the South Atlantic Press, where she collaborates with artists on monoprints and etchings.
Berens’ lines are sometimes painstakingly precise, sometimes playful. They are tamed into careful representation and then run wild in gentle swirling abstraction. Like a murmuration of birds, the lines meet and move as one – then scatter and swoop. The subject matter is as elusive and emotional as a Rorschach test. The work reflects upon that moment of interpretive magic while ones eyes adjust to the light or when just on the brink of wakefulness.
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Georgina Berens (b.1992) is a printmaker and artist living and working in Cape Town. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, the University of Cape Town in 2016 and received the Matthew Somers Memorial Prize in 2014.
In 2017 she completed a residency at the Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre in Jyväskylä, Finland. In 2019 she established the South Atlantic Press, where she collaborates with artists on monoprints and etchings.
Berens’ lines are sometimes painstakingly precise, sometimes playful. They are tamed into careful representation and then run wild in gentle swirling abstraction. Like a murmuration of birds, the lines meet and move as one – then scatter and swoop. The subject matter is as elusive and emotional as a Rorschach test. The work reflects upon that moment of interpretive magic while ones eyes adjust to the light or when just on the brink of wakefulness.
