She does screen printing and has her own small company and bookmaking, (http://www.pirrippress.co.uk/blog) (24)and she has a freelance agent (eye candy.co.uk) to represent her.
( http://www.eyecandyillustration.com/home/georgina-hounsome/)(25)
She's been through her childhood sketches and made some typography prints from them...
A project called 'older and wiser'.
She began doing a BA sculpture course, but realised she preferred the drawing stage rather than the actual making. She then followed to do a BA illustration at Bath.
after that she became an art technician in a secondary school and did freelance work.
She did a teaching course, as well as freelance but didn't enjoy that so she applied for the MA in Falmouth as well as still teaching and freelance and started lecturing after that!
When she came out of her BA in Illustration she made her portfolio on CD and sent it to 200 agents...out of which only 3 replied! One of them was Eyecandy, who is run by a nice couple.
Her applications were also to publishing houses such as Penguin and she made sure she had the persons name she was sending it to on there.
Younge creative network (http://www.ycn.org) (26)do lots of free competitions -
(one for next year)(27) (FolioSociety one)(28)
JOIN DO FREE COMPETITIONS it keeps you thinking and developing.
For the Cheltenham illustration awards she came runner up!
2 years after her MA she wanted to collaborate...
(Collaborations)(30)
Every 3 months or so she looks back through her sketchbooks to see if there's a possible narrative growing.
She did a printing workshop in Exchange gallery, cornwall and has 2 weeks to create form scratch a book and print it. In the studio, people could see the process sand talk to her...which was sometimes annoying as she had set the ink out to print and it would dry as people talked to her!
She and her friend made 50 screen printed books. (http://www.studionumbersix.blogspot.co.uk/2011_05_01_archive.html)(31)
A curator in Berlin saw this work and asked them to do a similar thing for his gallery. (2012)(http://www.enblanco.de)(32)
They had to ship the screen prints over, which was nerve wrecking as if a screen gets a tiny tear in it, it rips and cannot be used.
(http://www.enblanco.de/index.php?/archiv/june-12--the-island/)(33)
The project was inspired by nature magazines... one of them included all the awards that have wiped out species. She wondered, if without these hazards, can one continue to grow and live forever?
Beautiful Quink ink studies of objects found on the Island.
from the gallery website... "The Island’: a fictional account that explores ideas around protection, the natural world, and human being’s place in it. They have taken a scientific hypothesis as a starting point: some cold-blooded species have no fixed adult size, as humans do, but continue to grow until they die. If these species were completely protected, they could theoretically keep growing and live forever. The Island exists as a completely protected place for the carefully chosen candidates of a scientific investigation."
She used to re-draw from her sketchbook but now she scans directly from them. Because she usually knows what she's sketching for, e.g screen printing, she'll sketch like the method which makes it easier to work from.
She went to Kristiansand in Norway for another artist residency, 6 weeks. She had applied for 10 residences and this one accepted her! Its the 5th biggest city in Norway and yet it was tiny. She went to Oslo...and there was no one to be seen.
They focused on the environment which was amazing and inspiring. They did all their research there, no printing as there wasn't any facilities. They printed it in Bristol with Spike Island. The project was called 'Light and Sight' as whilst they were there it was only 2 hours of darkness...very productive time!
Her latest visit was to Portugal...
Wow! Feel like I should create something!!
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