Georgina Porteous is an artist working across sculpture, installation, film, sound, and collaborative processes. Their practice is research-led and site-responsive, shaped by social history, material culture, and lived experience, and often begins with curiosity, conversation, or a question left deliberately unresolved.

They work with familiar materials—glass, ceramics, inflatables, found objects, moving image, and sound—using recognisable forms as a way in. Fragility and endurance, care and control, domestic life and conflict frequently sit side by side. Film and sound extend sculptural work, adding rhythm, atmosphere, and narrative, and encouraging audiences to encounter the work physically as well as visually.

Scotland’s cultural and political landscapes are central to their practice. They are drawn to places where things rub up against each other: public and private space, authority and resistance, infrastructure and environment. Sites are approached as active participants rather than neutral containers, shaping how work is made and experienced.

Alongside studio practice, Georgina works as a curator and collaborator, with a strong interest in access, audience experience, and what happens when people talk to one another in front of an artwork. Chance encounters, overheard comments, and serendipitous conversations are often as important as formal research, allowing meaning to emerge through use, exchange, and shared attention.

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