Go and See Linz, Capital of Culture 2009
Two members of post arrived in Linz on Monday 13 April with appointments to meet five artists and arts professionals during the week. Let me introduce you to the people we met, the work they produce and the people they introduced us to…
Tuesday 14 March
Georgina Krausz
http://www.ginakrausz.at/HOME/Kr-home.swf
Georgina is an artist with very pertinent links to our project. Georgina tells us;
“I was born in Eastbourne, Sussex as the daughter of an Austrian mother from Linz and a father from Liverpool. I took my GCE’s in English and Art preparing for entrance exams to Art University. However, life took me on a different journey and I left England in 1985 to marry my Austrian boyfriend and live in my mother’s home town, Linz.”
Who would have expected that we would find someone who has already made the exchange in her life that we are making through art. Georgina paints, and more examples of her work can be seen on her website. The work shown here, A transient Life Form, is in aquarelle and feather and ink on paper – she describes as “capturing a moment of beauty in something we would normally look away from, because it’s life has past.”
Georgina was a welcoming host and introduced us to some interesting spaces in Linz, including the Art University Gallery, The House of Stories and artist’s exhibition spaces at the Ursulinenhof. She was also able to direct us to a rather lovely beer garden, where a warm sunny evening was enjoyed with a Radler (shandy)
