Tim Georgeson is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in the mediums of film, photography,
Installation and sound with a strong focus on environment / climate justice / culture and knowledge. He creates immersive cinematic spaces where environments and bodies are transformed through the gaze of unexpected visual-musical ecologies. His creative insight into the human condition gives his work a unique identity at the boundaries of art and documentary, where his film and photography capture complex dynamics in contemporary life and merge these moments with musical design and storytelling.
A self-titled ‘settler artist’, he is known for his ground-breaking collaborations, most notably with Australian Indigenous artists. In 2023 Georgeson travelled deep into the Tanami Desert with a group of Karrinyarra elders to create an extraordinary multi cinematic artwork, commissioned by Glen Isegar-Pilkington, curator at the Fremantle Arts Centre and the Indigenous Desert Alliance.This was presented as part of the Polarity Fire and Ice exhibition at the 2024 Perth Festival.
Georgeson first collaborated with William Barton in 2022 on The Hidden Theatre, a major 3 channel film and sound installation commissioned by Sophie O'Brien and Rachel Kent for the Bundanon Art Trust Art Museum. His partnership with Barton has continued on multiple works most recently URRITJARA an installation responding to Barton and Veronique Serret’s composition Kalkarni and featuring performer Derik Lynch. Urritjarra has been presented in multiple locations around Australia including Tweed Regional Gallery, Passage Gallery and overseas.
Georgeson has won World Press Photo, Leica Camera, Cannes, Global Oceanic, Ciclope and National Geographic awards. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in France, UK, Japan, Holland, Canada, the US, and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Bundanon Trust Art Museum, The Australian Museum, corporate and regional gallery collections around Australia and private collections internationally.
Georgeson is represented by Olsen Gallery and Institute Artists
Artist Features
December 2020
Film
Filmed across Lake Bumbunga, a salt lake located in South Australia, Urritjara, starring actor and performer Derik Lynch, is a gripping portrait of the synergy between sound, earth and movement directed by Tim Georgesen. Urritjara is the term for ‘movement’ in Yankunytjatjara language — the language native to Lynch’s father’s family.
