Georgina Maddox is an independent critic-curator with 20-years-experience in the field of Indian Art and Culture. She blurs the lines of documentation, theory, and praxis by operating as a critic/curator and involving herself in visual art projects.
She has engaged in the act of curating, collaborating and writing about art practices that examine and speak about issues of gender/sexuality/marginalization and the juxtaposition of social hierarchy with acts of agency and defiance, over the years.
Biography
Georgina Maddox is an independent critic-curator with 20-years-experience in the field of Indian Art and Culture. She blurs the lines of documentation, theory and praxis by operating as a critic/curator and involving herself in visual art projects. She has engaged in the act of curating, collaborating and writing about art practices that examine and speak about issues of gender/sexuality/marginalization and the juxtaposition of social hierarchy with acts of agency and defiance, over the years.
Currently, she is writing for various publications, like The Hindu, MASH Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elle Magazine, and She is currently working in media as an independent critic for various publications and has published articles in Open Magazine, India Today, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elle Magazine, Hindu Business Line’s Sunday Magazine BLINK and the US based E-magazine, Studio International. the international digital platforms STIR World, Art Dose and Art Amour. She has critical essays in books like, Articulating Resistance: Art and Activism; edited by Deeptha Achar and Shivaji K. Panikkar and The Phobic and Erotic edited by Brinda Bose and Subhabrata Bhattacharyya.
Maddox recently was the recipient of the Hello India Art Awards for the Barbil Art Project won for best collaboration between the Arya Foundation (CSR) and the Utsha Foundation, (Art NGO).
Maddox was working as a curator-consultant (July 2018 to August 2019) with director Tunty Chauhan at Threshold Art Gallery. She worked as gallery manager and in-house curator at Surrendra Paul Art Gallery, Sangeet Shyamala headed by Vasundhara Tewari Broota. She set up and worked as Chief Curator at Art Explore an online art portal with a physical space in Hauz Khas alongside photographer Vikram Singh. In 2017 She was the content curator for sahapedia.org, a pioneering arts and culture encyclopedia and online resource. During her full-term in the media, she was Assistant Editor at India Today’s Mail Today and senior feature writer for the Indian Express and the Times of India.
Maddox did her Post Graduate at Social Communications and Media at Sophia College Mumbai and her Bachelors in Art History and Visual Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), Vadodara. She also worked as production assistant first unit with Nachiket and Jayoo Patwardhan on the Film Devi Ahilyabai (Holkar) in 2000. Maddox is currently working as an independent critic-curator and art consultant based in New Delhi.