GEORGINA MCNAMARA
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    NATURAL (2020 onwards)

In recent self-portrait photographs, I explore the struggle in adjusting to loss and uncertainty as both a factual life experience, and by exaggerating its memory in imaginary actions.

In How Did It Break? It Broke Naturally, a figure continues to skip despite an obviously defective rope.  Here denial is highlighted in the dysfunction of an everyday action.  

The series Acting Myself shows a puzzled figure inspecting a patch of wavy brickwork on an otherwise regular brick wall.    In these pieces, I exaggerate the physicality of confusion in imaginary actions.  This obvious discomfort could appear to echo the uneasiness of times of unplanned change.  

Grasp shows a hand firmly gripping a fragment of strong rope which is coming apart at its ends.  The detail of the unravelling rope could act as a potential metaphor for the natural disintegration of a stable structure in daily life.  
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How Did It Break? It Broke Naturally (2022) sequence of 5: each 28 x 18.5cm
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Acting Myself (2022) series of 4: each 30 x 45cm
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Grasp (2020) 59 x 39cm


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All images copyright © 2022 Georgina McNamara.  
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  • Welcome
  • Work
    • Musings (2022)
    • Natural (2020 onwards)
    • Performances II (2011)
    • Performances I (2009-11)
    • Perspectives (2008-09)
    • Postcodes (2007-08)
    • Distorted Garments II (2002-06)
    • Distorted Garments I (2001-02)
    • Video pieces (2013-14) >
      • The Costume (2013) video
      • Fit (2012) video
  • About
    • CV
  • Contact