The Fishing for Litter scheme provides fishing boats with large bags to collect marine litter caught in their nets and co-ordinates the safe and responsible disposal of the waste.
Maxwell's artwork, a large bunch of plastic bottles she collected from the Cornish shoreline, hung from the eight-foot high beams of Newlyn fish market.
She was also working with children, encouraging them to make art from what they imagined could be found in the fishermen's nets, as well as a few fish.
As the first female to complete a course in sea survival with Seafood Cornwall Training, Georgina is shortly planning to document and photograph, on board one of Newlyn's fishing boats, the fishermen netting rubbish out at sea. She said: "I've been keeping track of Fishing for Litter since 2004 when the project first began in Scotland. It's been so successful that now they're funding the project here in the South West.
"I believe it is a moral and ethical responsibility that we all need to consider in order to find solutions to the environmental catastrophe of marine plastic pollution."
Maxwell's website can be seen at www.georginamaxwell.com