Darryl Georgiou is an interdisciplinary artist, exhibiting internationally and working across a range of media. His artwork is held in both national and international collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens/New York

Between October 2010-2011 he exhibited as part of Make Room Interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection at The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK. The exhibition used contemporary works acquired by the gallery to make interventions within the Collection’s themed rooms. The display merges historic and contemporary art. Participating artists include Tracey Emin, Richard Wentworth and Howard Hodgkin

During 2011-2013 Georgiou was ‘Artist in Residence’ at the National Collections of Photography (CNCP) hosted by Birmingham Central Library investigating the relationship between the still and moving image. Exhibitions between March – May 2010 included the screening of a short film B21 – a sound and picture poem capturing a post-colonial inner city Britain. In July 2011, Georgiou previewed Buffet Menu (Villa Cross) an art-as-text intervention, to mark the 30th anniversary of the first Handsworth disturbances (10 July 1981). The work approached the subject of historical memory in an attempt to reveal the disparity involved in attempting to represent the past in art. Wider research and practice explores the psychogeography of the city and how places feel that involve disturbance, turmoil or perceived injustice. The research question being how this re-presentation shapes the image of the present with a bearing on the here and now

Georgiou is interested in the tension between truth and fiction, reality and invention, history and memory. His architectonic practice combines conceptual complexity and playfulness. Often merging inherently flawed systems and doubtful philosophical propositions with the seemingly objective experience of the archive. Through his array of interlinked projects Georgiou questions how information becomes authoritative and explores the way that we map and classify the world in order to understand it.

Principal Lecturer in Media Arts, Design and Visual Arts, School of Art and Desing, Coventry University, Graham Sutherland Building, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB

studio.georgiou@icloud.com

Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Hunt is Director of the AAJ Press (Art & Architecture Journal / Press) – a writer and consultant on art and public space creating publications and web media, cultural events and films. He is a member of AICA (International Art Critics Association).

He is currently writing an Anthology of Art in Fiction, a survey of the artist in novels, poetry and theatre that traces the chronology and context of art in fiction to explore how the perception of the artist’s milieu developed to define the role ot the artist as genius – magician – bohemian – visionary – courtier – businessman and outsider.

During Summer 2013 he was writer-in-residence at ‘Constructed with Intention‘, a colloque and artists’ residency organised by The Cornelius Foundation and the Université of Montpelier. He produced The Passion of Lagamas, three poems as a conceit describing the scene of the last supper, the betrayal and passion of Christ in the contemporary location of the village of Saint Jean-de-Fos, and the Château de Lagamas in the Languedoc region of Southern France. The Last Supper at the Château de L’Agamàs and The Passion at the Mount of Olives of L’Agamàs, were commissioned by Joseph Kohlmaier, artistic director of Musarc to be performed with The Garden of Gethsemane of Saint Jean-de-Fos as The Passion of l’Agamàs and Jepthe by the Musarc choir at the Cass Faculty of Architecture and Design, London on April 4th 2014.