Geoffrey Watson SC is a Melbourne-based artist, whose work is rooted in choreography and has branches in wearable design, text, lighting, sculpture and photography. Geoffrey’s work exists as a excommunication of the exterior: a resurfacing of the surface and a face painting of a face.
Geoffrey’s designs have appeared in performances by Nana Biliuš-Abaffy, Lilian Steiner, Brooke Stamp, Holly Durant, Leah Landau Matthew Bird and Phillip Adams BalletLab, and have been showcased in exhibitions at Melbourne Fashion Week, Virgin Australia Fashion Festival and the Adelaide Biennale.
As a performer, Geoffrey has worked with companies and artists including Phillip Adams BalletLab, Nana Biluš-Abaffy, Natalie Abbott, Lee Serle, Alisdair Macindoe, Gekidan Kaitaisha and The Australian Ballet, and is currently working with Lucy Guerin Inc. on Flux Job- premiering 2021.
Geoffrey’s performance works include Camel (Next Wave Festival 2016), Loving You Ad Nauseam (Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2016) DISTRACTION: Smackdown! (Melbourne Fashion Festival, 2017), DISTRACTION: Tim Collins is a piece of shit (Counihan Gallery, 2017), Geoffrey’s Corpse (Uferstudios, Berlin, 2019) and Rachael Wisby (Newport Substation/Lucy Guerin Inc., 2019).