Georgia Spain

Pinned to Georgia Spain’s studio wall is a cluster of postcards, photographs and magazine clippings. There are images of dancers, a game of tug-of-war, a hot-dog eating contestant hunched over a mound of food, tables laid out with feasts, a group of cheese-rolling competitors throwing themselves down a hill with their limbs outstretched in unlikely directions, and a Pieter Bruegel painting that Spain is attracted to for its ‘chaos’. While Spain doesn’t directly replicate this source material, she captures the dynamism in these scenes, and, to quote one of the scribbles on the wall, the ‘messiness of bodies’. She’s interested in ritual and ceremony, spectatorship and crowds, myths and legends, and the things that draw humans together… Spain’s ‘messiness of bodies’ truly captures the chaos of our time.

 – Lucy Hawthorne, Artist Profile, Issue 55, May 2021

 

Georgia Spain Time is the thing a body moves through, exhibition essay by Tiarney Miekus, 2022

Georgia Spain’s Abstract Paintings Capture The Chaos Of Our Times The Design Files, 3 October 2022

Read ‘In the studio with Georgia Spain’ Q&A 2024

Read review of Georgia Spain’s ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ by LUMINOSA – Scarlet Thomas 2024

Read Weekly Exhibition Pick in The Age | Spectrum by Tiarney Miekus 2024

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Georgia Spain ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘Through the Wringer’ 2024, oil on linen, 198 x 183 cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘A Spade, A Spade’ 2024 oil on linen, 198 x 183 cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view
Georgia Spain ‘A Stammer in the Speech’ 2024 oil on linen, 198 x 183cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘The Sleeve’ 2024, acrylic and oil paint, cotton and polyester fabric, stockings, stuffing, thread, canvas, ceramic, glove, cardboard, steel, 167 x 50 x 50 cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘The Sleeve’ 2024, acrylic and oil paint, cotton and polyester fabric, stockings, stuffing, thread, canvas, ceramic, glove, cardboard, steel, 167 x 50 x 50 cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, detail.
Georgia Spain ‘The Fold’ 2024, acrylic and oil paint, cotton and polyester fabric, stockings, leather and rubber gloves, feathers, stuffing, timber, thread, 67 x 94 x 70 cm, ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.
Georgia Spain ‘Why not, what if, could it be?’ 21 September – 12 October 2024, installation view.