Anastasia Karageorge is an Australian artist based in the United Kingdom. Karageorge engages with female subjects drawn from the European painting canon, reinterpreting figures once depicted as passive into empowered narrators of their own stories. While rooted in art-historical reference, Karageorge’s practice remains personal, shaped by intimate experiences, memories and emotional resonance. Through appropriation and subtle visual additions or symbolic gestures, Karageorge shifts narratives around the subjects, granting them agency and renewed presence. Karageorge’s work seeks to reclaim female visibility in art history while also questioning whether such reclamation can meaningfully disrupt the persistence of historical inequalities.
ArtEvol 2025 / Anastasia Karageorge
Lady with Meat Headdress , 2025 Oil on canvas, embroidered textile 23 × 13.5 × 6 cm
Artwork Introduction Reimagining Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Negress (1800), a painting long debated for its contradictory treatment of its unnamed sitter, Anastasia Karageorge uses collage and parody to reconfigure the original fabrics and adornments into unlikely objects, shifting the resonance of the subject’s presence. By unsettling the familiar, the work opens space for reflection on how women have been represented, reframed and reimagined across art history. The frames, built from layered nylon, beads and cushioned surfaces, create a plush decorative skin. These materials blur craft and ornament, recalling jewelled ‘portrait-objects’ once kept as intimate tokens, while reframing the act of looking and allowing the frame itself to emerge as an active part of the work.
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