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12 Facts About Georgina Starr

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

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Georgina Starr is best known for her video, sound, performance and installation works.

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Georgina Starr was born in Leeds and lives and works in London.

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Georgina Starr studied at Jacob Kramer school of Art, Middlesex Polytechnic, attended the Slade School of Art from 1990 until 1992 and the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam from 1993 to 1994.

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Georgina Starr has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions, including the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Venice Biennale, and in galleries in cities throughout the world including Basel, Tokyo, Ghent, Brisbane, and Barcelona.

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Georgina Starr has been identified as a member of the second wave of Young British Artists.

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In 1994, Georgina Starr's Visit to a Small Planet featured videos, photographs, objects and drawings based loosely on a memory of a Jerry Lewis film called Visit to a Small Planet which evoked many emotional states.

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In 1996, Georgina Starr made Hypnodreamdruff which began as a film script, but turned into a "multi-screen, multi-media installation incorporating a nightclub, bedroom, kitchen and caravan," according to a description on her website.

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The poster for "Theda" show a seance and indeed Georgina Starr makes herself the medium.

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Georgina Starr was a judge for the Northern Art Prize in 2008.

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Artist Andrew Palmer credits Georgina Starr for influencing his thinking about art.

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In November 2008, Georgina Starr put artwork from her project Bunny Lake and reproduced them on a Vespa scooter in a project to raise funds for charity.