Georg Wilson, The Gathering, 2023

Born in 1998 in London, UK. Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan.

“A starting point for ‘Gathering’ was the reoccurring white creatures of Leonora Carrington’s paintings; pale and translucent, they leap between the realm of spirits and dreams and the material world. A gathering of creatures, for conflict or union? Feather and flesh. The gathering of matter for a nest, consensual or not. Seeking warmth as nights draw longer. A meeting at moonlight, when the veil between worlds is thin.”

Wilson’s practice explores ecology and history, translated through personal experience and folklore. Her paintings follow the seasons, so that her subject and palette changes with the turn of the year. Wilson aims to confront the historical painterly narrative of England, and she tells strange stories of an imagined landscape in which humanity is absent. Her scenes are populated with creatures, more ‘animal’ than any particular gender. Defying classification, they exist outside a human hierarchy of domination or exploitation. Wilson conjures a world of entangled, strange narratives in which we can suspend our disbelief to eventually emerge out of the undergrowth, somehow changed.

Wilson received her BA in Art History at the University of Oxford (2020) and MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2022). Her work has been exhibited internationally including Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery (London), Palazzo Monti (Italy) and Saatchi Gallery (UK), amongst others. She is a twice-recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields award (2021-2), was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize (2022) and New Contemporaries (2023).

Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘In May, I Sing Night and Day’ at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2023); ‘What Mad Pursuit’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2023); ‘Ill Met by Moonlight’, online with Delphian Gallery & Artsy New York (2023); ‘This Other Eden’ at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York (2022); ‘The Garden Thief’ at Arusha Gallery, Bruton (2022). Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Who Is Your Master?’, 1969 Gallery, New York (2023); ‘We Are Floating In Space’, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (2023); ‘Pocket Universe’, Philip Martin Gallery, LA (2023); ‘Even the Worm Will Turn’ duo show, Soho Revue, London (2022); ‘The Red Room’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Cromwell Place, London (2022); ‘AMPHIBIAN’ supported by Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2022); Ingram Prize Show, London (2022). She is a twice-recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields award (2021-2), and Ingram Prize Finalist (2022).

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