interview / liz rice mccray
Nick Georgiou keeps the printed word alive and breathes life into discarded found objects by “morphing newspapers into different shapes, dissecting books to make sculptures... basically recycling what would’ve been thrown away into art.”
Georgiou’s work is a reminder of impermanence - the realization and reality after almost three decades of the “information age”, with the advent of computers and Internet technology. The impact has been so grand that it has threatened 400 years of the newspaper as a staple... or a hub in a small town or big cities, responsible sometimes for holding communities together.
Georgiou’s art is preservation of words and rebirth into a new form of the digital era... the balance that coexists between and importance of printed publications and digitaltechnology - the fight to keep theprinted word alive.
Georgiou currently is living and working in Tucson Arizona, whilst limiting his carbon footprint.