Open Lid

Georgina Amos, born 1982 in Cambridge. Lives and works in Cambridge. Studied MFA Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design.

Selected group exhibitions include: Painting?, Hoxton Art Gallery, London, 2011; Simulacrum: British Art Exhibition, Moon Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011; The Uneasy Landscape, Fold Gallery, London 2010; John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2008. Amos was awarded the Clare Winsten Memorial Award 2010/11.

Amos’s work investigates objects that communicate invisibly, such as mobile phones, masts and telephone lines. Her paintings evoke the inner surface of the eye as a way to explore the boundary between the private, hidden self and the external public realm.

Shortlisted 2011

Georgina Amos, Open Lid