Artist
Georgie Wileman
Artist
Artist Bio
(b. 1988, London, UK) is a British photographer, filmmaker and spoken word poet previously based in New York and now back home in London.
Her work focuses on underrepresented stories in the media. Wileman is Head of This Is Endometriosis, a global movement working towards validation, representation and education of endometriosis. She is the Creator and Director of the short film This Is Endometriosis. Created alongside Matt Houghton and Produced by Harriette Wright, the film premiered at Hot Docs Film Festival (2022) and has screened at cinemas including Bertha DocHouse at Curzon and 11 Everyman Cinemas across the UK.
Her photography has been exhibited in institutions including Saatchi Gallery, The National Portrait Gallery, Royal Photographic Society and Annenberg Space for Photography and published in titles including, Forbes, The Washington Post, FT Weekend Magazine, The Independent, British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, CNN Arabic, Today Show (US), Der Spiegel, Le Figaro, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Elle, i-D, Dazed & Confused.
Artwork Description
In Five Years On, Self, 2014-2022, a constellation of scars and dates drawn across Georgie Wileman’s torso documents surgery the artist has undergone, as a result of suffering from Endometriosis – a disease that affects 1 in 10 people born with a uterus, regardless of race or gender identity – yet is profoundly under-researched, under-funded and misinformed.
As well as drawing attention to the disease, Wileman questions the relationship between physiology and womanhood. Over eight years, the artist went through surgery seven times and lost four organs, including her uterus. Laying bare her personal experience she asks, “How many more organs would I lose before I’m no longer truly a woman?”
