Georg Wilson (b.1998) is a British painter. She 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), Public Service Gallery (Sweden), 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).
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.
Recent solo exhibitions include; ‘Time Held Me Green and Dying’ at Public Service Gallery in Stockholm (2024); ‘In May, I Sing Night and Day’ at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (2023); ‘What Mad Pursuit’ at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2023); ‘This Other Eden’ at Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York (2022). Recent group exhibitions include; ‘TOTEM’ at Newchild Gallery in Belgium (2024); ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ at Camden Art Centre in London (2024); ‘Surrealism and Witchcraft’, Lamb Gallery, London (2023); ‘A Celebration of Portraiture’, Marlborough Gallery, London (2023); '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); ‘AMPHIBIAN’ supported by Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2022). She is a twice-recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields award (2021-2), Ingram Prize Finalist (2022) and New Contemporaries (2023).