Georgina Berens (b.1992) is a printmaker and artist living and working in Cape Town. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, the University of Cape Town in 2016 and received the Matthew Somers Memorial Prize in 2014. Internships: Smith Studio, Warren Editions and most recently The Artists’ Press. In 2017 she completed a residency at the Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre in Jyväskylä, Finland.

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Berens’ lines are sometimes painstakingly precise, sometimes playful. They are tamed into careful representation and then run wild in gentle swirling abstraction. Like a murmuration of birds, the lines meet and move as one – then scatter and swoop. The subject matter is as elusive and emotional as a Rorschach test. The work reflects upon that moment of interpretive magic while one's eyes adjust to the light or when just on the brink of wakefulness.

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Exhibitions / Awards / Residencies: 2018 – Solo exhibition at Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town; Turbine Art Fair Johannesburg, Salon 91; Artist Press Collaboration with Mark Attwood, Mpumalanga; Endless at Salon91. 2017 – Fine Art Print Fair, Johannesburg; ‘Field’ and ‘Trees Make Forests’ at Salon 91 Gallery, Cape Town. Artist-in-residence at the Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre, Jyväskylä, Finland.

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Internship at Smith Gallery, Cape Town. 2016 – Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. 2014 –awarded the Matthew Somers Memorial Prize.

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Lithography

 Lithography is a method of printing based on the principle that oil and water do not mix. Printing is done from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a grained surface; using oil-based inks. The artist works on a separate stone or plate for each colour. A hand-printed lithograph print is an original work of art and is an image that does not exist in any other form.