On the occasion of her launch at Proto, Georgia Munnik presents her Holdfast ‘Outside Organ’ Tees, Hartford Carriers and the Book of Invocations for Joy, a limited print series.

The title of the Holdfast collection refers to the thick, entangled roots of kelp, which fasten themselves in and around rocks on the ocean floor. The name ‘holdfast’ is prescriptive of its ecological function: to hold the organism in place. This collection considers the potential future ecological function of plastic as a holdfast knot braiding itself into organic bodies and fastening them as kelp does to hold itself to the ocean floor.
– Georgia Munnik

The illustration on each Hartford Carrier is a digital drawing of Georgia’s original Hartford Light-box Sculpture, also on display in Proto alongside A book written for the viruses in your body, from which the Book of Invocations for Joy limited print series is taken. 
 
Working across mediums and modes, Georgia explores "weird ecological speculation as an exercise in the untranslatability of nature." Central to her practice is the construction of fictional narratives proposed by the coincidence of natural objects and fibres with manmade materials – among them plastic, ink, carbon paper, and books on biology.

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Proto is the store at A4 Arts Foundation. A place for practitioners to imagine into, and propose creative work, Proto plays with the premise of the museum shop.