GEORGIE SZYMANSKI


Work, Info, CV
Georgie acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Owners of the country in which she works and lives. Georgie pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, acknowledging their ancestors and elders, who have lived on this land for millennia. Free Palestine.
Georgie Szymanski, (b.1994 Melbourne). Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Szymanski’s practice explores object and user encounters through the intersections of furniture, objects and spatial practice. Primarily working with timber and craft processes, her works explore the balance between historical forms and current day functions, informed by traditional methods of cabinet making and technical exploration.  

contact ~ georgieszymanski@gmail.com


Selected Exhibitions


2025                       Current: Next In Design, Rigg Prize 2025, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne VIC
                                Goodbye London Plane, curated by Andy Ward and Ma House, Ma House Supply Store, for Melbourne Design                                                 Week, Collingwood, VIC

2024                       Holder, co-curated by Georgie Szymanski and Jess Humpston as Trove Workshop for Melbourne Design                                                           Week, Abbotsford Convent, VIC
                                Seeing and Knowing: New Perspective in Furniture, Craft + Design Canberra, ACT

2023                       Speculation: Eight Billion Little Utopias, Design Fringe, Linden New Art, Melbourne, VIC
                                VIVID Design Awards, Decor + Design, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, VIC
                                Origin to Object curated by Ceres Fairwood, for Melbourne Design Week, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, VIC

2022                       Cambium, Sturt School for Wood, Mittagong, NSW


Awards, Prizes & Fellowships


2025                         Finalist, Australian Design Review's 30UNDER30
                                  Finalist, Rigg Prize 2025, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne VIC
                                  Fresh! Fellowship, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, VIC

2023                         Winner, Furniture Design, VIVID Design Awards
                                  Winner, Authentic Design Alliance Award of Merit, VIVID Design Awards


Selected Press


2025                       Architecture, AU, Meet the maker: Georgie Szymanski by Georgia Smedley, August, 2025                        


Selected Professional & Teaching Experience


2025                     Technical Officer in School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University

2023-25               Disability Support Worker and Furniture Maker, C2A Disability Without Limits, Brunswick

2023-24               Furniture Instructor, Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking, Blackburn

202                        Furniture Restorer, Grandfathers Axe, Coburg North

2020-22               Picture Framer, Owner of Plumm Workshop, Coburg North

2019                      Furniture Maker, Grain and Sass, Northcote


Education


2022                      Certificate IV in Furniture Design and Manufacturing, Sturt School for Wood, Mittagong, NSW

2020                      Certificate II in Furniture and Cabinet Making, Box Hill Institute, Box Hill, VIC
 
2018                       Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours), RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC