Born in Sydney in 1968, Georgiadis completed the art certificate course at the National Art School in 1986 and later obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, in 1990. Since 1993, she has held over 18 solo exhibitions and participated in over 30 group exhibitions in commercial galleries and art institutions throughout Australia and overseas. A finalist in The Archibald Prize, Salon des Refuses, The Mosman Art Prize, Metro 5 Art Award, The Portia Geach Memorial Award, Redlands Westpac Art Award, The Paddington Art Prize and Country Energy Art Award. Georgiadis was awarded three major visual arts grants. Her work is represented in major public, corporate and private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Greece, Italy and France.

"Margarita Georgiadis is a painter for whom, to paraphrase late American art critic, Harold Rosenberg, the canvas is not merely a picture but also an event. Her engagement with the process of picture– making, and relationship with her materials, is a physical as much as an aesthetic one. The bold, gestural brushwork, luscious impasto, raw emotion, and exuberant color that characterize her paintings are an expression of the jubilations of the paint tube.

With spontaneity and bravura, she explores color and spatial relationships, using various compositional elements that reinforce, oppose, jar, reflect and intensify each other to create a harmonious balance of dynamic tensions. The accidental and serendipitous can prove crucial to her creative method as invention and innovation. A multimedia artist, Georgiadis brings the same energy and elan to her portraits, figurative imagery, digital photographs and performance works."
– Linda van Nunen Curator,
Sight Specific September 2004

EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1989 Commercial Screen Printing Certificate, Sydney Technical College, Higher Certificate Art, National Art School, Sydney
1986 Certificate in art, National Art School, Sydney

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Curious Cases – Maree Mizon Gallery, Sydney
2004 Digital Eyes – Maree Mizon Gallery, Sydney
2004 Play Up – Digital Prints & Animation, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2003 Drive, Maree Mizon Gallery, Sydney
2003 Toy Box, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2003 Portrait Collection, Arthouse Hotel, Sydney
2002 Imposter (Belle Ame), Maree Mizon Gallery, Sydney
2002 Witch Bitch Super Vamp, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival Event, Global Gallery, Sydney
2001 Mad Dog Red, open by Max Cullen, Norton Gallery, Sydney
2000 Raw Sex Box, open by Craig Hassall Olympic Arts Festivals, Art House Gallery, Sydney
1999 Mad Love, Global Gallery, Paddington
1999 Aperture Terra Firma Natura, The Photographers Gallery, open by Lex Marinos, Sydney
1999 Customs House, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Country Energy Art Prize – Grafton Regional Gallery, Parliament House – Sydney
2005 The Glenti Show – Gallery Philip Neville, Darwin NT
2005 Australian Icons Framed – National Trust Diamond Jubilee Auction, Sydney
2005 Salon des refuses Exhibition – Spin Cycle on Max, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2005 The New Establishment – Online Gallery Apartment6 Launch – Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
2004 Rats In The House – Artist's In Residence – Sydney Theatre Company, The Wharf Gallery, Sydney
2004 Country Energy Art Award – Benalong Gallery – The Sydney Opera House
2004 Sight Specific, curated by Linda Van Nunen – Invited Artist – Marlene Antico Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
2004 Double Act – DaDa – Solander Gallery, Canberra
2004 Salon des Refuses Exhibition – Self Portrait, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2004 This Way Up – Global Gallery, Sydney
2003 Spiders and Flies – Newcontemporaries Gallery, Sydney
2003 Cross Projections – Photographic Multimedia Exhibition, Kings Cross Arts Festival
2003 Extinction Denied – The Arthouse Hotel, Humane Society exhibition
2003 Creative Madness – Garvan Institute for research into Manic Depression
2003 Bloomsday Exhibition – James Joyce Foundation, the Arthouse Hotel Gallery, Sydney
2003 Under the Hammer, Arthouse Hotel Gallery, Sydney
2002 Arthouse Hotel Gallery, "Portrait Artists Australia" Sydney
2002 Metro 5 Gallery, "First Birthday Exhibition", Melbourne
2002 Maree Mizon Gallery, Sydney
2002 Metro 5 Gallery, "Erotica Today", Melbourne
2001 SH Irvin Gallery, Salon des Refuses, Archibald Entry – Max Cullen
2000 Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney.
00-01 Art House Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
1997 Michael Nagy Fine Art Gallery Sydney
1993 The Women's Gallery, Melbourne
1993 First Draft West Gallery, Sydney
1989 The Blaxland Gallery, Sydney Printmakers
1989 The Works Gallery (Ivan Dougherty Gallery), Sydney
1988 Sydney Printmakers, Macquarie University, Sydney

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
1996 – '97 Allegri Art Associazione Culturale – Florence, Italy. Allegri Art Associazione Culturale – Northern Tuscany, France

AWARDS & COMPETITIONS
2005 Country Energy Art Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW
2005 Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Finalist – Max Cullen & Self Portrait
2004 Paddington Art Prize, Finalist, Marlene Antico Fine Arts Gallery, Sydney
2004 Country Energy Art Award, Finalist, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Australia
2004 The Mosman Art Prize, Finalist, Mosman Art Gallery
2004 Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Finalist – Self Portrait
2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award – S.H. Irvin Gallery, Finalist – Self Portrait
2003 Metro 5 Art Prize – Finalist
2001 The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW – Finalist – Lisbeth Gorr
2001 Salon des Refuses, SH Ervin Gallery, Finalist – Max Cullen
2001 The Mosman Art Prize – Finalist, Mosman Art Gallery
2001 Redlands Westpac Art Award – Invited Artist

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2002 – '05 The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Auction of paintings for Manic Depression Research – Creative Madness
2002 Guest speaker – Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne – "Erotica Today"
2001 Guest speaker – Salon Des Refuses – SH Ervin Gallery with Max Cullen
2001 Guest speaker – Archibald Prize – Art Gallery of NSW. Victorian Arts Centre, George Adams Gallery. Sydney Grammar School
2000 Fuel 4 Arts, Australia Council, Online Mentor

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005 Goodweekend, Sydney Morning Herald, Icons by Janet Hawley
2004 State Of The Arts, Digital Eyes, by Alex McDonald
2004 The Sydney Morning Herald, Digital Eyes, by Lenny Ann Low
2004 The Canberra Times, Double Act DaDa Exhibition, by Helen Musa
2003 The Sydney Morning Herald, Portia Geach Memorial Award, by Lenny Ann Low
2003 The Sydney Morning Herald, Creative Madness, by Lenny Ann Low
2003 The Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomsday Exhibition, by Tony Stephens
2003 The Sunday Telegraph, Under The Hammer, various journalists
2002 CREAM Fifth Anniversary Edition, October by Michelle Hespe
2002 The Sunday Telegraph, Imposter, by Diana Simmonds
2002 The Mosman Daily, Ten Unkowns, by Sue Hicks
2002 Sunday Metro, The Sun Herald, "Down to a Fine Art", Ten Unkowns Production, by Colin Rose
2002 The Sunday Telegraph, "Unknown Qualities", Ten Unknowns Production, by Dianne Simmonds
2002 Daily Telegraph, "Journey to Unknown", Ten Unknowns Production, by Chelsea Clark
2002 Vogue – "Painted Ladies" feature by Margaret Merton
2002 The Sydney Morning Herald, "Art Review", Lenny Ann Low, Witch Bitch Super Vamp
2002 The Sydney Morning Herald, "Critics Picks", Witch Bitch Super Vamp
2002 The Sunday Telegraph, Express Social, "Witch Bitch Super Vamp"
2002 The Australian, "Witch Bitch Super Vamp" Feature by Jane Albert
2002 SX Magazine "Witch Bitch Super Vamp", Feature by Michelle Hespe
2001 The Sydney Morning Herald, "Framed and they've got form too", John McDonald & Darren Knight
2001 The Australian, "She Who Must Be Displayed" Review by Jennifer Sexton
2001 The Australian, The Nation by Benjamin Genocchio
2001 Class Act, Artist Magazine, by Terri Dodd
2001 State Of The Arts, Raw Sex Box by Margaret Meagher
2001 City Weekly, "Let me paint you a friend", lead story by Anna Cronin
2001 The Sun Herald, by Tara Moss
2001 Interval Arts and Film Guide, Melbourne, "Coppin an Eye full" by Cameron Grace
2001 MX Pix, Melbourne
2000 The Sun Herald – Metro, Raw Sex Box
2000 Vogue – The Buzz, Raw Sex Box
2000 Sydney IS, Review by Alexandra Kelly, Raw Sex Box
2000 Capital Q, Review by Michelle Hespe, Raw Sex Box
2000 The Sydney Morning Herald – Metro, Courtney Kidd, Raw Sex Bo
2000 The Daily Telegraph, Chelsea Clarke – Raw Sex Box
1994 The Sydney Weekly – by Nell Schofield
1993 The Sydney Morning Herald – Bronwyn Watson

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Qantas Corporate Offices, Auckland, New Zealand
Campbell International Real Estate Group, Los Angeles, California
Colliers Jardine (NSW) Pty Ltd.
The Greek Consul General, Australia
Resmed Pty Ltd
Savill Suites, Sydney
FPD Pty Ltd – Unidata House
Commercial Property Monitor Pty Ltd
Kareena Hospital, Sydney
Panalpina World Transport Pty Ltd
Southern Cross Hotel, Canberra
BT Property Trust Pty Ltd
National Insurance Advisory Pty Ltd
Grenada Productions Pty Ltd
Graham Ormsby Architects & Associates Pty Ltd
Financial Nexus Pty Ltd
Bridget Tyer Interior Design Pty Ltd
Forte Personal & Business Communications
North Shore Plastic Surgery
Sheraton Hotel On The Park, Sydney

COLLECTIONS (private & corporate)
Australia, Japan, Los Angeles, UK, Singapore, New Zealand, Greece,
Northern Tuscany & France