February 2024: Recipient 042, Georgia Madden
The 42nd recipient of the Creatives Grant is Georgia Madden! The Liverpool artist sent in ‘Divination Dave,’ and… I know this is a weird thing to say, but the set-up kind of felt like the animated equivalent of the stories I have been writing lately about what it feels like to make do in Liverpool. In the animation, a man buys a salt lamp from a TV advert, runs out of the good crisps in the multipack and finds there’s only plain potato left. He eyes his treasured salt lamp, eats it, and — magical realism ensues. Every detail in every shot drags the story along its pot-holed bumpy road. It’s great!
BIO
Based in a darkened room on the outskirts of Liverpool, Georgia spends the majority of her time in the miniature, meticulously making films frame by frame using the medium of stop motion. Her most recent short, ‘Divination Dave’ was commissioned by BBC Arts as part of their New Creatives programme and has gone on to see festival success, taking home ‘Best Animation’ at the BFI Future Film Awards 2022.
Currently in development, Georgia’s next project ‘Rubberleg’ surrounds 10-year-old Nigel and his journey through past lives- eating the eggs he came from to grow back a missing limb! This grant will be a massive help in getting the ball rolling on the long, long process of stop motion!
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