“Cutting out is a sort of freedom of expression. For me it’s drawing, but I draw with a scalpel.”
Georgia Russell repurposes the scalpel as her artistic tool: with precise gestures, she cuts, dissects, and transforms materials such as paper, canvas, and organza, into delicate, poetic artworks. More recently, Russell has increasingly dedicated herself to painting on canvas, adorning them with abstract color compositions and expanding them through collaged textile elements.
Through cutting and transformation, Russell opens painting to a dialogue with space, light, and shadow. Her works emerge from a gestural process guided by instinctive movement. In doing so, her compositions unfold in a dynamic interplay between lightness and structure, transparency and opacity. Color is not strictly controlled, but allowed to flow - raw and vibrant, and yet precise in expression - unfolding in the immediacy of the moment.
Russell's subject arise from an artistic process that culminated in organically or landscape-inspired visual worlds, oscillating between abstract, atmospheric phenomena and sensual impressions.
Georgia Russell was born in 1974 in Elgin, Scotland. She studied Fine Arts at the Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and subsequently earned a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2000, she moved to Paris on a scholarship from the Royal College of Art.
Russell has an extensive international presence with solo and group exhibitions at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington D.C. In 2014, she was appointed “Artist of the Year” by Art Basel. The following year, the Het Noordbrabants Museum (Raenschdael Foundation) in Den Bosch, Netherlands, dedicated a solo exhibition to her work. In 2016, her works were shown at the Bayer Cultural Foundation in Leverkusen and the Museum Pfalzgalerie in Kaiserslautern. She was the winner of the 2020 edition of “Women to Watch / Paper Routes” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.
Russell’s works are held in numerous international private collections
as well as renowned public institutions, including the aforementioned museums as well as the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Pierre Bergé Collection and the Ruinart Collection. Georgia Russell lives and works in Méru, Picardie, France. Galerie Karsten Greve is representing the artist since 2010.
© Georgia Russell and Galerie Karsten Greve
Exhibitions
Publications
Exhibitions
Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption, Valloire, France
Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Bayer Kultur, Leverkusen, Germany
Het Noordbrabandts Museum, s’Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst e.V., Schloss Detmold, Germany
VIP Lounge Art Cologne, Germany (Galerie Karsten Greve / Ruinart, Reims, France)
Art Brussels, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, VIP Lounge, Ruinart, Reims, France
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
England & Co, London, UK
Galerie Dukan & Hourdequin, Marseille, France
Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
England & Co, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
The American University of Paris, Paris, France
England & Co, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
American University of Paris, Paris, France
Under the Hammer, Aberdeen, UK
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Learn moreVilla Zanders Art Museum, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Dukan & Hourdequin, Marseille, France
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, USA
Otter Gallery, Chichester, UK; travelling to: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK
The Courtauld Institute Library Exhibition Space, London, UK
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA
Oakville Galleries, Ontario, CA, USA
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Galerie Dukan & Hourdequin, Marseille, France
Institute's East Wing, Somerset House, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
American University Paris, Paris, France
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
James Hockney Gallery, SIAD, Farnham, UK
England & Co, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
Paris, France
Richmond House Exhibition, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Centre d’Arts Albert Chanot, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paris, France
Artist Event, Rue de l’Hirondelle, Paris, France
Bowie Art at the RCA, London, UK
Design Museum, London, UK
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, UK
Waterstones, Picadilly, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Edinburgh, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK