Georg Wilson is a British painter. She received her BA in Art History at the University of Oxford, UK in 2020 and MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London, UK in 2022. She is a twice-recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields award (2021 – 2022), as well as being shortlisted for the Ingram Prize (2022) and New Contemporaries (2023).
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’s work has been exhibited internationally including: Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, UK; Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Time Held Me Green and Dying,’ Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); ‘In May, I Sing Night and Day,’ Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy (2023); and ‘What Mad Pursuit,’ Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, UK (2023). Her recent group exhibitions include: ‘Magic, Alchemy and Occultism,’ Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London, UK (2024); ‘Episode II: Figuring Out Britain,’ Matt Carey-Williams, Seoul, South Korea (2024); ‘The Nature of Things,’ Castor Gallery, London, UK (2024); ‘Realms,’ Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK (2024); ‘Rooted,’ Berntson Bhattacharjee, London, UK (2024); ‘TOTEM,’ Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2024); and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries,’ Camden Art Centre, London, UK (2024).