George first started painting and selling textiles as fabric pieces, wall hangings and clothing in Sydney, Australia and in 1988 moved to Rarotonga, Cook Islands with her husband and fellow artist Ian George.

The artist has worked with a number of interior designers on projects that have featured in some of the most significant magazines throughout New Zealand.  Kay George’s works are seen in many private and public collections in New Zealand, Australia and the Cook Islands. 

Having just completed her Masters in Fine Arts her work has become focused on layered imagery transposed through the photographic medium. Drawing on the principles that she applies to her textile creations, her recent portraits illuminate the multi layered facets inherent to Pacific culture.

Of her works for the group exhibition MANUIA, the artist states ‘This body of work using digital media demonstrates the layers that exist within the local island community that has over 400 years moved from an indigenous Polynesian people with its own belief systems to a people that have shifted to a zone of mixed cultures, confident in the first world, competent in the digital world, rebranding themselves according to their age group and interests’. In 2010, Kay George graduated with a masters degree in Art & Design from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Flower Power, The Art Studio (2012); Maketi Ples, Sydney (2012); Nui Pasifik, Gorman Museum, University of California (2010); Tiaho – To Shine, New Photo Media & Film from the Pasifik, University of Mexico City (2010); MANUIA, The American Indian Community House/BCA, New York, (2010); Patterns of Identity, The Art Studio, Rarotonga (2010); Snapshots of Rarotonga, Lesa Gallery, Wellington, NZ (2009); The Love of Threads, The Art Studio, Rarotonga (2009).