Her work offered a refreshing change in an otherwise drab group show featuring young artists still reeking of Art College, with the presentational skills of an aardvark, so they deserve no mention here, ha!
Georgie’s paintings stood out however!

Ms Tier pieces will remind the trained viewer of the form and composition of Braque's bird pictures and collages and also have similar reference to the shape, colour and composition of violin and musical instruments, especially pinks, reds and blacks of the classical orchestra.

There is as well a timid if not tentative Klimt-like influence in some of her works, which Georgia is experimenting with further.
The appliqué-style of jewels and glass buttons is playing a small part in some of the paintings, adorning the corsets and hair-dos of the dramas that are unfurling before our eyes.

In “Moulin Rouge” the Can-Can girls, little by little, reveal their naughty secrets, and would have had Toulouse-Lautrec blush with approval.

There is nothing tasteless or underhand going on here, pardon the pun! While there is nothing cheap nor vulgar about these pieces either. There is also a lot of Beryl Cook’s humor present in these “vignettes” as isolated snapshots of a particular moment frozen in time. The style of the shapes, as they describe the figure’s movements are well observed.
They glide and turn, as if the pictures were animated. This adds up to a stylish, if not a somewhat comical look at the Dominatrix and her victim. It breathes a breath of fresh air into erotic art now on offer, which these days, seems to be stuck in that same old and done to death style of “Glamour”…yawn. Its impact on the visual arts isn’t going anywhere fast at the moment.

But that doesn't mean that there isn't good Erotic Art out there, as Georgie Tier’s work has effectively demonstrated here. I was pleasantly surprised by its freshness and originality. I recommend that you all try to see it, and draw your own conclusions.

You can see Georgie’s work next at: “Skin II” on the 8th and 9th October, and at the Barbican Arts Gallery, where she will mostly be showing prints. And her in person, with more paintings, yes! : In the PVC outfit! Wink, wink… as a featured artist at the Erotica show, Olympia, Earl’s Court, London, next November.

Stephane

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