Georgia Fry

Georgia Fry is an artist living in Nottingham, a "Jaqueline of all trades", her eloquence and intellectual speech elude her existence and she is left with a mass of vulgar forms and characters spanning concrete, paper, thread and film, a fan of creating wearable objects with embroidery and dying materials that show identity.

At the age of 11, Fry moved to a small village in Spain, but she would realise that she would not be doing as well as she should until one of her teachers suggested an art school outside of the village, but soon dropped out as it did not work out, she liked working in her first year, but as the second year came around, she started to feel more overwhelmed. Despite feeling like she didn't fit in in Spain, she came back at the age of 18 after studying a foundation art course at Nottingham College, even though she disliked her final art piece. Yet she enjoyed working with colours and patterns, making it look decorative, and different materials, but she felt that drawing was the easiest technique, as it is easier to control. Even if she wishes to be less controlling of her work in the future, to embrace the chaos.

Patterns can be seen in the use of floristry, which Fry also has an interest in, this gives the idea of her enjoying being in the outdoors. Floristry is an art form that concerns the production and commerce of flowers. Within the trade are included a number of disciplines, including floral design and display and flower arranging.

Her partial inspiration was to do something different, like non-art related things, so that ideas can come along, but her main inspiration for her pieces of art was religious imagery, Islamic imagery in particular. Religious Islamic art has been typically characterized by the absence of figures and extensive use of calligraphic, geometric and abstract floral patterns. Typically, though not entirely, Islamic art has focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy, rather than human or animal figures, because it is believed by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God that is forbidden in the Qur'an.


(Detail of Mosaic tiles from Isfahan Mosque, Iran.)

The influence of these patterns has been worked on by Fry to the extent of her being able to use her art more in the public eye, such as in the shop front of forty two. 



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