Georgina Starr

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Georgina Starr (born 1968) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists.

She was born in Leeds and now lives and works in London. She attended the Slade School of Art (1990-92) and the Rijksakademie Van Beelende Kunst, Amsterdam (1993-4).

She works with found and collected objects to make autobiographical installations. She has exhibited widely in group and solo shows, including the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Venice Biennale.

She is one of the "second wave" of YBAs, whose art is more akin to the explicit confessionalism of Tracey Emin than the minimalism of Damien Hirst. Her work has been described as "quirky, personal, heartfelt, confessional, paranoid" by Momus, who recorded:

Georgina explained to me that for her, paranoia is a magical state of mind, because it's all about entering the realm of the imaginary. For instance, although she doesn't really like horror films, she rents videos of the slash 'n' stalk variety and tapes the soundtrack, then walks around the city listening to them on a Walkman, the creepy music and sudden violent sound effects somehow lifting everything onto another level of reality. Once she bumped into Gilbert and George just when the Walkman reached a horrible knifing episode, and it was... splendidly creepy.[1]