Georgia Munnik
A work-in-progress that serves as both an artwork and a source of art-making materials, this object holds a pivotal place in Munnik’s sculptural practice. In what she terms an ‘alchemical’ process, an antique copper watering can is continually filled with seawater, accelerating the oxidation process. While the patina provides her with pigment, the object itself becomes ‘overgrown’ with resin sculptural elements that recall the shape of mushrooms.
b.1990, Johannesburg
Georgia Munnik is a visual artist, published writer and self-taught perfumer. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions and attended artist residencies in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland. Her commissioned projects include two light art sculptures, How do you mourn? (2021) and Orpheus (2023), produced for Spier Light Art Exhibition, Stellenbosch. In 2022, Munnik was a featured artist at Proto, the store at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town. She was also the recipient of the Rupert Museum Social Impacts Art Award Residency, which supported an enquiry into her long-term interest in perfumery. Munnik has since developed a senses-based methodology for her PhD project at Stellenbosch University Visual Arts Department and a commercial perfume practice. She recently launched her first eau de parfum, PHENOTYPE 13, at AKJP in Cape Town. Her solo presentation with Rupert Museum, Stellenbosch, will take place in mid-2025, for which she will present a series of limited-edition sculptural perfumes.
