The Birth of An Idea is an installation that explores of the depths of the ancient space of the subconscious, using natural elements and found objects such as ceramics, wood, seaweed, sand and soil (African-Devon), and glass.

With Africanism in mind, it depicts the subconscious as a space where ideas and answers quite often appear as if from nowhere. A place describing the hypnagogic / hypnopompic states (from awake to sleep / from sleep to awake) where ideas are often born.

Georgina’s practice is based within the subject of Africanfuturism, which embraces the concepts of looking back to a pre-colonial past where spirituality and ritual play major roles in African culture. This is as opposed to Afrofuturism where the future progresses with science and technology for example.

By bringing ideas forward from the past, and re-examining indigenous or first nation groups and cultural societies beliefs, could they help explore possibilities of another future and solve some of the global generic problems by understanding and changing our mindset?

These ideas could also apply to European and British early beliefs which have been buried through time and difficult to examine and restore. But by looking at African spiritualism, ritual, and belief in our ancestors as an example, help change our relationship with the land we inhabit and the future we are predicted to have.

Georgina Grant lives and works in Devon. She has dual heritage Ghanaian-English, and lived in Ghana, Zambia, England and California USA. She studied her foundation and BA in London and continued her art education in Devon, at Arts University Plymouth (AUP) M.A and MFA.

Venue: Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix

An intimate window gallery for micro-installations and sculptural interventions.