Winner of the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize, Georgia Spain, makes her debut in the medium of sculpture, bringing together paintings alongside sculptural assemblages. Embracing ambiguity, humour and material transformation, Spain’s surreal, semi-figurative sculptures look as though they might have just stepped out of the vigorously expressive canvases that surround them.
Georgia Spain is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice spans painting, drawing, ceramics, music, writing, and film, and often sits at the intersection between figuration and abstraction, where she seeks to explore the nuances and uncertainties of the human experience. Using narrative and storytelling to examine the cultural, political and personal, her […]
Recent Drawings on Quilted Paper showcases 11 lively and intimate charcoal and ink drawings on antique papers stitched together by the Sulman Prize-winning artist. “I found a stack of antique paper in a secondhand store in Daylesford,” says Spain. “It came wrapped in old string, had a lovely patina to it, and felt like it carried history.” Having […]
People are repeatedly together in Georgia Spain’s paintings. In their collectivity, they’re always in the middle of something — often the most cataclysmic and euphoric moments of existence. With limbs akimbo, flesh melting into flesh, Spain has a sea of figures awash in a tsunami, or wielded together as flood waters sweep in. In another […]