Georgina Porteous CV
Site-specific artist and curator based in Moray, Scotland, from Glasgow. BA (Hons) First Class, Moray School of Art, University of the Highlands and Islands (2008). Practice spans site-specific installation, film, performance, and collective projects in public and artist-led contexts.
Solo Exhibitions / Projects
2025
NEOS, Burghead — Security Blanket
Eden Court, Inverness — The Opening of a Fragile Pot
2024
Forres — The Opening of a Fragile Pot
2022
Gallery Pop, Forres — Gag
2012
HomeBase Residency, Berlin — Over Egging the Pudding
2011
igLU, Inverness — Ordnance Cannoneer Detail
2010
Gallery North Project Space, Inverness — Inbox
2009
Moray School of Art / Moray Distillery — Underbelly (Tony Jones Conference)
Airgold Place, Glasgow Arches — 1032am
2008
Eden Court, Inverness — New Graduate
Group Exhibitions
2024
WASPS Studios, Nairn — The Opening of a Fragile Pot (Middle Room)
2016
Project Sale, Maine, USA — Over Egging the Pudding (film installation)
2014
Manifesta, St Petersburg — Inbox:_ & Gold
Project Sale, Moscow — Inbox:_ & Gold
2013–2014
Moscow Arts Festival — Inbox; _
2013
Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Guildhall, Cambridge — Inbox Film (Project Sale)
2012
HBIII Festival, Berlin
2010
Creation Studios, Glasgow — Words Per Minute
National Theatre of Scotland — Allotment and Extreme
2009
RSA New Contemporaries (selected by John Byrne and Will Maclean)
Scottish Society of Artists2006
SNH Inverness — More Than Us (Dalziel and Scullion)
Residencies
2014
Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency
2012
HomeBase III Site-Specific Residency, Berlin
2010
BlackBox Award Residency, Glasgow Arches
Moray School of Art / Scottish Colleges Residency
Employment / Professional Roles
2024–present
Board of Directors, Moray Art Centre
2020–2023
Gallerist & Curator, Gallery Pop, Forres
2017
Camera, Sound Assistant and Actor — Awken Liwen (Mariano Aiello)
2011–2012
Conch Guardian and Documentor — The Conch [Sound Studio], Highland Tour
2010
Visiting Lecturer, Northumbria University
Film Maker / Editor, Deveron Arts (Dafai; Anthony Schrag; David Sherry; Norma Hunter)
Film Documentor and Editor, HUG (Highland Users Group)
Film Documentor and Editor, Ciaran Cunningham (Events & Tour Manager)
2009–2018
Set Designer, The Giant Olive Theatre, Kentish Town, London
2012
Artist Assistant, Julius Weiland, Berlin
Awards & Sponsors / Support
2025
VACMA Award
2019
Creative Scotland Moray Artists Award
2010
BlackBox Award, Glasgow Arches
2009
RSA Adam Bruce Thomson Award
RSA Scottish Colleges Award
Sponsors / Support
2010
The Arches, Glasgow
2009Royal Scottish Academy
AnCnoc Highland Malt Whisky
2008
BOC British Oxygen Company
Future Projects
2027
Solo Exhibition, Moray Art Centre
Solo Exhibition, The Wyllieum