“Cutting out is a sort of freedom of expression. For me it’s drawing, but I draw with a scalpel.”
Georgia Russell’s work has always been constructed around notions of rhythm and repetition – in both gesture and form – through which the artist, plunging herself into the minutiae of cutout, brings out the potential energy of the material. In her new work, the time is that of nature but also that of painting. Having investigated the possibilities offered by the old photographs and books, Georgia Russell is now engaged in a reflection on colour and abstraction. This turning point is marked by a return to traditional materials, such as the canvas and the paintbrush, although her artistic process, which never abandons the idea of creative destruction, remains anchored in her cutout technique. The artist’s canvases are the result of a painting challenge that starts with the choice of colours and culminates in the creation of landscapes, being based solely on intuitive memories.
The stroke of the paintbrush, its direction and the rhythm of the pictorial gesture are disrupted by the direction of the scalpel cut, as well as by the contrast between empty cutout shapes and the parts of the canvas left untouched. Georgia Russell was born in 1974 in Elgin, Scotland. In 2000 she graduated from the Royal College of Art London with a MA in printmaking. Numerous solo and group shows at internationally renowned institutions are evidence of the recognition the artist receives, among them Slash. Paper under the Knife at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, or The Book Borrowers. Contemporary Artists transforming the Book at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington D.C.. Her work is also to be found in important private as well as public collections, among them in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Georgia Russell lives and works in Méru, France.
At the studio with Georgia Russell
© Georgia Russell and Galerie Karsten Greve
Exhibitions
Publications
Exhibitions
Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Bayer Kultur, Leverkusen, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
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
England & Co, London, UK
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
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
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
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, 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
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
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
Oakville Galleries, Ontario, CA, USA
Galerie Dukan & Hourdequin, Marseille, France
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA
The Courtauld Institute Library Exhibition Space, London, UK
Otter Gallery, Chichester, UK; travelling to: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY, USA
Institute's East Wing, Somerset House, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
American University Paris, Paris, France
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
James Hockney Gallery, SIAD, Farnham, UK
Paris, France
Richmond House Exhibition, London, UK
Business Design Centre, London, UK
England & Co, London, UK
Paris, France
Artist Event, Rue de l’Hirondelle, Paris, France
Bowie Art at the RCA, London, UK
Centre d’Arts Albert Chanot, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, UK
Waterstones, Picadilly, London, UK
Design Museum, London, UK
Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
BBC Broadcasting House, London, UK
Edinburgh, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK