Georgia Metaxas

Lecturer & Module Leader, MA Photography (Online)

Georgia Metaxas is an artist and educator based in London, she is the Module Leader for Sustainable Strategies on the MA at the Institute Of Photography, Falmouth University Online. And is also a Tutor for the MA Fine Art Online, Falmouth School of Art as well as the MA and BA for the IOP.

She holds a Master of Fine Art in Photomedia from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, is an experienced university lecturer and has developed community engagement programs with institutions including the East London NHS Foundation Trust, Photoworks UK and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She explores the tension between ‘artistic’ intent and documentary practice, with a particular interest in examining the representation of absence and preservation of memory through photography. She has exhibited widely in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and has also shown her work in Spain, China, and Germany. Metaxas has undertaken a number of international residencies, including at the Fundacion Botin in Santander with Paul Graham, and was one of the FATHOM15 artists at Four Corners in London. Her work is held in several public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of Australian Photography.

Georgia’s debut photobook Mnemosyne Grove was published by Perimeter Editions, in May of 2024.

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Contact details

Email g.metaxas@falmouth.ac.uk
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    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2021 Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
    2012 MFA - Master of Fine Art Monash University of Melbourne, Australia

    Teaching

    Areas of teaching

    • Photography
    • Fine Art

    Courses taught

    • Fine Art MA (online)
    • Photography MA (online)
    • Photography BA (Hons) (online)

    Professional Engagement

    Independent professional practice

    Solo Exhibitions

    • The Mourners, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne (2013); CCP Melbourne (2011)
    • IKONA Portraits, Immigration Museum, Melbourne (2012–13)
    • Lower Your Ears, Queensland Centre for Photography (2008); Monash Gallery of Art (2007)
    • A daily ritual with Helen Sullivan, Red Gallery (2006)
    • March of the Missing, Perth Centre for Photography (2006)
    • Greek Grandparents, Federation Square, Melbourne (2005)
    • IKONA, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne (2004) Regional Gallery Tour (2005- 07)


    Selected Group

    • Pushing the envelope: an exhibition of mailed and communication art, 99 grams, Curated by Lucy Helton, The National Museum of Computing (2025)
    • By the Means at Hand, Vlatka Horvat Croatian Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2024)
    • Mirror: New Views on Photography, State Library of Victoria (2023)
    • Walking Through the Darkness, CCP Melbourne (2023)
    • 100 Faces, MAPh Melbourne (2023)
    • Terra, Grays Wharf Studios, Falmouth (2023)
    • Esposito, Metaxas, Sancisi, Barbican Arts Trust, London (2020)
    • Gothic Beauty, Bendigo Art Gallery (2018–19)
    • Regarding Portraiture, Galerie Andreas Schmidt, Berlin (2017)
    • IASA, DZIALDOV Gallery, Berlin (2016)
    • FATHOM15, Four Corners Gallery, London (2015)
    • Uncertain States / The Final Nine, Four Corners Gallery, London (2014)
    • Melbourne Now, NGV (2013–14)
    • FutureGen, Ping Yao International Photography Festival, China (2012)
    • Hijacked II, VHS Photo Gallery, Stuttgart; Zephyr Gallery, Mannheim (2012)
    • The Gravity of the Situation, Monash University Faculty Gallery (2011)
    • Hijacked II, Touring exhibition – Monash Gallery of Art, QCA, Australian Centre for Photography (2010–11)
    • CCP Documentary Award – National touring exhibition (2009–10)

    Social, community and cultural engagement

    • Victoria and Albert Museum, Secondary School Program, Photography Centre, Word and Image & Education Department, 2019 – 2021
    • ArtReach, Artist in School Program, “Then & Now” Historic England, 2016
    • Photoworks, Brighton Photography Biennial & Brighton Hove City Libraries, Evolving in Conversation, 2014
    • East London NHS Foundation Trust & University of East London, School of Psychology, CAMHERA, 2014
    • ArtPlay, The City of Melbourne, Signal 37, Curators Group, 2013
    • Victorian Drug Courts, Dandenong Drug Court Photographic Rehabilitation Project, 2011-2013
    • Monash Gallery of Art & Melbourne Girls Grammar, Responding to Wallace, 2012
    • Community outreach program - The Jewish Museum of Australia, The Babel Project, 2011
    • St. Mary's House of Welcome, My Favourite Place, COLORS Notebook Project, Awarded Outstanding Achievement Award in Health Promotion, Vic-Health, 2006

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    • Member of APHE (Association of Photographer in Higher Education)
    • Member of AHFAP (Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography)

    Professional and Scholarly Development

    Conference Papers

    • Sustainable Photography ? Conference, Falmouth University, 2025
    • APHE conference, The Art of Play, the Power of Risk: Framing Photographic Education, 2025

    Publications

    • Mnemosyne Grove (Perimeter Editions, 2024) – monograph
    • Photography and Culture, Vol. 13, Issue 1 (2020) – peer-reviewed article
    • Photography: Real and Imagined (NGV, 2023) – catalogue
    • View Finding: Monash Gallery of Art 1990–2020 (MAPh, 2020)
    • Melbourne Now (NGV, 2013) – catalogue
    • The Mourners, CCP Catalogue (2011)
    • Hijacked II: Australian and German Photography, Big City Press (2010)
    • Reportage: A Retrospective 1999–2009, Sydney (2011)