Georgia Dickie (°1989, Toronto) makes sculptural work out of found objects that she collects as part of an ever-growing "inventory" of urban debitage. For the past decade, this inventory has maintained a process-oriented practice that highlights her hands-on dedication to the humblest materials. Dickie's process of reassembling these materials into new arrangements is based on a logic of eschewing and rebalancing their assigned functions. By staging these intricate assemblages, she not only reveals the inherent limitations of material value and meaning, but subverts the ways we are conditioned to see the world in a for-profit, essentialising society, and points towards new potentials that emerge from environmental consciousness.

Dickie's most recent body of work utilises discarded cardboard boxes that self-contain collage and sculptural assemblage made predominantly from scavenged detritus. The works function as vessels that both contain and allow the work's content to be transported, blurring the lines that divide form and content. While continuing an ongoing practice that amasses otherwise discarded materials for her "inventory" more recently, the journey between home and studio has narrowed. This narrowing informs the scale and content of this new, more intimate series of work. Often appearing precarious in their assembly, in these works Dickie focuses on smaller, intricate fragments of material information, affixing matter inside each box.

Georgia Dickie earned her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2011. She was one of the recipients of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, and the 2014 winner of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally including Soft Opening, London; Fragment Gallery, Moscow; Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Rolando Anselmi, Berlin; Jeffrey Stark, New York; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore; and Art Museum of University of Toronto, The Power Plant, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Cooper Cole, Toronto. Recently, she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, USA. She has served as artist-in-residence at Est Nord Est, résidence d'artistes, Québec and the Canada Council Residency at Acme Studios, London, UK.

All installation views: Pieter Huybrechts