Georgia Papageorge

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Georgia Papageorge (b. 1941) is a South African installation artist active in the field of earth art.

A native of Simonstown, Cape Province, Papageorge earned her bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of South Africa in Pretoria in 1979; she earned a higher diploma in graphics from Pretoria Technikon in 1981. She turned to art after the death from cancer of her two-year-old daughter. Much of Papageorge's work explores geological rifts, tying them metaphorically to personal and political upheaval. Her more recent pieces have explored the Gondwanaland schism.

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• Bio from the National Museum of African Art