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

Georgia Spain ‘Transformation’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 198 x 152 cm
Georgia Spain ‘The chance in the change’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 198 x 152 cm
Georgia Spain ‘Love languish’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 152 x 198 cm
Georgia Spain ‘Natural instinct’ 2022 acrylic on linen 56.5 x 51.7 cm
Georgia Spain ‘Here I am, here again?’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 97 x 87 cm
Georgia Spain ‘O my stars’ 2022 acrylic on linen 35.5 x 30.5 cm
Georgia Spain ‘Transit’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 97 x 87 cm
Georgia Spain ‘On either side of paradise’ 2022 acrylic on canvas 97 x 87 cm
Georgia Spain ‘Ways of seeing’ 2022 51 x 41 cm acrylic on linen
Georgia Spain, portrait photograph by Oscar Lush, July 2021