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- Georgia Naylor
Georgia
Naylor
Georgia Naylor
The work focuses on learning difficulties, Dyslexia. She frames these experiences from the viewpoint of a young child with Dyslexia and her own experience. The work aims help others without dyslexia to know what it feels like to have dyslexia and to help others who have dyslexia know they are not alone. And help herself work through her emotional trauma.
The text within the paintings from ‘Sink and Search’ is being submerged, within the work with elements of the sea. The painting uses Chiaroscuro to evoke a sense of drowning. Hidden within the painting are words that represents what it feels like to experience dyslexia. They are painted in a way to highlight that when a dyslexic is trying to spell a word, it may be there but it’s not clear to them all the time.
‘Escape from Beneath’ is highly influenced by the book Kensuke’s Kingdom. This children’s book is the pinnacle piece of literature that introduced dyslexia as not evil and that reading can be beautiful. The story of a young boy getting shipwrecked on an island. The island symbolises how lonely it feels to have dyslexia. The overload of words creates this overload of emotion when stepping into the installation.