Georgina Bowden
Composer and Artist
An original and mature artistic voice
Dr. Dominic Murcott, composer
A breath of fresh air ... a thought-provoking piece of work
John Alexander, composer
Georgina Bowden is a composer and artist living in Adelaide, creating combined art forms and site-specific works. Resident in Australia since 2020, her current work has been born of her fascination with vivid sounds, colours and concepts relating to Australian nature. Her creative work combines performed music, art and architecture. She has a Master’s of Architecture from Cardiff University and a Master's of Music from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and her works have been performed across Europe and Australia.
Multimedia composition 'Wild Colour' was performed in Czechia for the 2023 Ostrava Days Contemporary Music Festival, and her earlier choral work 'The Fainting Sun' released in 2022 on their label. At the same time, Georgina's artwork 'Brave Growth' was displayed in the prestigious Heysen Prize. In 2022 she was also the Emerging Composer for South Australia's ReClassified Festival, and commissioned for a piece of baroque strings, soprano and video artwork for Adelaide Baroque.
Georgina designs site-specific spatial music, such as her piece ‘Revelations' for instruments and voices, live computer processing and acoustic reverb tube, all placed particularly in the venue. She creates art-music crossovers, such as Yaban Ariları, an art score for Stephen Upshaw released on ‘Into The Ocean’. Recently she participated in the Festival of Laurence Crane at Guildhall with a moving underwater artwork response to his piece ‘See Our Lake’.
Georgina’s nature-based artwork is exhibited in the UK and South Australia, where she won a 2021 Emerging Artist Prize. Georgina founded art classes ‘Adelaide Art Outside'.
She has been a radio presenter for Resonance FM with her soundwalking programme ‘Palimpsest’, and for South Australian radio station 5mbs for contemporary music. Georgina was a tutor of Architecture at the University of South Australia in 2021, and was previously a critic at Coventry University for a Soundwalking module in 2019.
Shortlisted Artist | Heysen Prize
Emerging Artist Award | West Torrens Art Prize
Oils on Canvas | triptych
Inspired by river gumtrees stretching upward to infinity, like cracks in the vivid blue sky.
Moving Underwater Painting | Response to Laurence Crane's 'See Our Lake'
For the Laurence Crane Festival at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Buy ‘See Our Lake’ on Another Timbre
Solo Viola - Art Score | 6'00"
For Stephen Upshaw | released on Into the Ocean
A microtonal counterpoint, shown by shifting squares in the score.
The performer interprets the shades of colour and pitch.
Inspired by the moving soundscape of wild bees on Lycian Way in Turkey.
Dancer, electronics, soprano and chorus, violins, brass and wind, bass drums, glass objects and space tube | 4'00" excerpt of 40" work
Collaboration with dancer & choreographer Rosamond Martin.
Apocalyptic, three dimensional play of sound, space and movement, in seven sections
Short Opera [to be extended] for strings and female voices | 15'00"
Performed at Trinity Laban'sGold Medal Showcase
developed through Rough for Opera
A harrowing story of WWI factory workers painting clocks with glow-in-the-dark Radium, while it killed them with bone tumors.
Radio Programme | Resonance FM
An immersive soundwalk collage, exploring a particular place each episode. Sounds recorded and presented by Georgina.
Short Movement for String Quartet
Performed by the Smith Quartet
Abstract piece based on cold, harsh material textures and their translation into sound.
For Large Ensemble (open score)
Written for Contemporary Music for All
Short playful piece acoustically creating echo and reverb effects. Based on the calls to prayer in Istanbul echoing around the city.
Digital Track | 2'37"
A single sound excerpt is transformed through different contexts and time decay; from a live performance to underwater to a distant crackling radio.
For Chamber Orchestra | 5'00"
Performed by TL chamber orchestra, cond. Gregory Rose
Exploring gravitational forces during take-off and how these could be conveyed through orchestration.
Oil on Canvas
Inspired by the architectural concept of aperspective and its translation into art composition.
For String Quartet | 4'00"
Performed by the Dulcinea Quartet
Political conceptual piece, driven by ideas about digital echo chambers and violence from Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis
For Solo Soprano | 7'00"
Performed by Anna Rea
Floating in a trance, a woman dreams and imagines, cycling through states from distress to peace.
For Soprano and Double Bass | 10'00"
Performed by Anna Rea and James Trowbridge
Architecture Master's Thesis
