Emerging Composer 2022 - Adelaide Chamber Music | MOD. Gallery
Emerging Artist 2021 - West Torrens Art Prize
Director's Prize in Composition 2018 - Trinity Laban
Gold Medal Composer 2018 - Trinity Laban
Society of All Artists' Young Artist of the Year 2014
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 an Australia-based composer and artist, creating site-specific and multidisciplinary work for musicians and galleries. Her pieces cross between music, art and architecture, inspired by the vivid colours and sounds of Australian nature. She has a Master’s of Architecture from Cardiff University, and of Music Composition from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and her works have been performed across the UK and internationally. 'The Fainting Sun' was performed in Czechia for the Ostrava Days Contemporary Music Festival, and released in 2022 on their label. Recently, Georgina won the West Torrens Emerging Artist Prize for her piece ‘Brave Growth', and is the Emerging Composer for Adelaide Chamber Music and MOD. Gallery's Invisibility Commissions 2022.
Georgina designs site-specific spatial music, such as her 360° piece ‘Revelations’, for instruments and voices, live computer processing and acoustic reverb tube, all placed particularly in the venue (below). She creates art-music crossovers, such as Yaban Ariları an art score for Stephen Upshaw, released on ‘Into The Ocean’ (see below). 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 for her artwork inspired by the deep blue Australian sky and rustic gumtree bark texture. Georgina founded and runs art classes ‘Adelaide Art Outside’. which last year focussed on spring colours in the Botanic Gardens.
She is a radio presenter for Resonance FM with her soundwalking programme ‘Palimpsest’, and for South Australian radio station 5mbs presenter for contemporary music. Georgina has been a tutor of Architecture at the University of South Australia in 2021. She has previously been a critic at Coventry University for a Soundwalking module in 2019.
