Georgina Barney

Georgina is an artist and is the curator of Greenbelt’s 2024 visual arts programme.

Since around 2017, Georgina has been working with plants and other foraged materials to create natural colour: inks for drawing, dyes for fabric and pigments for paint. She is based at Primary contemporary art complex in Nottingham where she runs ‘Plant Dye Studio’ delivering workshops and 1:1 artist tutorials to support others with colour exploration. Georgina’s extensive work with museums and galleries includes an Early Years programme on natural and historical colour sources, ‘Nature’s Palette’ for the Barber Institute at the University of Birmingham (2023).

Prior to around 2017, Georgina’s visual art practice explored the relationship between Art and Farming. She was part of national survey shows including ‘Creating the Countryside’ at Compton Verney Museum and Art Gallery (2015) and the Whitechapel Gallery’s ‘the Rural’ programme in 2019. She is the author of ‘GB Farming: An Island Journey’ which chronicled an eight month travelling and working on farms across the UK, and was the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council award for her MPhil ‘Curating the Farm’.