Unmasked

2026
Pencil on paper
34 × 28 × 1.9 cm

About the work

The face underneath the mask she wears to suppress her true self, to keep her true emotions hidden from external judgement.

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Feelings of frustration, grief, exhaustion, disappointment, anger and pain all lay beneath.

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These hidden feelings live in a world with no colour or excitement.

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They hide within her whilst the mask tells the world a different story.

Georgia H Murray

Artist Georgia Murray was born in 1997, Gloucestershire, England, studied in London, currently living in the South Coast of England.

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She is an artist who works primarily with pencil and graphite; her art explores a combination of realism and surrealism, balancing closely on the edge of both.

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She creates detailed portraits, with soft shading, scratchy linework and dark shadows. Her portraits are unapologetic, raw and ugly, playing with emotions, gender, skin elasticity and structural asymmetry.