Nothing's forever cause everything is
Georgia Morgan

The creation / destruction feedback loop is a real part of Hinduism & by extension, a way of being or understanding for people raised in that culture.

One exists only because of the other.

When 2 things are so far apart from one another, the poles touch. 

Remember in science class when you learnt that energy can’t be destroyed, it can only change shape? 

Or when Sydney put in lockout laws, so there became heaps of warehouse parties a stone’s throw away?

– Georgia Morgan, 2025

Absolutely ripper gear, tremendous cracking gear.
If we did it once, gonna do it twice.
Sydney bass connect, that sugar and spice.
If we did it once, then we gonna go n do it twice.

– 3NDLES5 and Crazymike, ‘TCG’, B4S5OLOGY, Steel City Dance Discs, B4S5OLOGY (2023)

Georgia Morgan’s Nothing’s forever cause everything is brings together two bodies of work that explore the persistence of memory, language, and ritual beyond–and perhaps through–processes of physical erasure. Dreams and Effigies (to be burnt) (2022), a series of works on paper created just before Morgan’s residency at Gertrude, is presented alongside new paintings that assume a three-dimensional presence. These new works draw from the artist’s immediate environment and the Hindu philosophies of pragmatism—working with what is at hand—and the infinite cycle of creation and dissolution. Their surfaces have been intuitively built up and stripped back through the application of colour, layering, erasure, and obscuration. Across both bodies of work, and in the studio, Morgan reconfigures destruction as a generative force of ritual and regeneration.

On the opening and closing days of Nothing’s forever cause everything is, Morgan will cook and serve traditional Tamil food in the gallery space with family and friends.

Opening: Thursday 6 March, 6–8pm
Closing: Saturday 12 April, 12–5pm

Georgia Morgan is a Tamil Australian artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans installation, photography, video, painting and ceramics. She describes her work as ‘devotional and aspirational’ with roots in storytelling and the Hindu custom of puja, a form of worship that involves offering physical objects—such as gold, fruit or flowers—to an image of a god. As Morgan explains ‘sometimes gold foil or plastic fruit or flowers are offered. This doesn’t detract from the value of worship, as it is the conviction of the action that matters. This knowledge and use of material are consistent in my practice. It is what I say it is. You believe, cause I believe.’

Georgia Morgan is currently in the Gertrude Studio Program (2023-25). In 2020, she was awarded both a Commendation Prize and the People’s Choice Award in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize. In 2021, Georgia won the Tasmanian Women’s Art Prize (Emerging) and has had works acquired by Artbank and private collections throughout Australia. She has held solo exhibitions at Neon Parc, Naarm Melbourne; TCB, Naarm Melbourne; Conners Conners, Naarm Melbourne; First Draft, Sydney; Carpark, Milani Gallery, Meanjin Brisbane; and Bett Gallery, Nipaluna Hobart. Georgia Morgan is represented by Neon Parc, Naarm Melbourne.