Georgia Spain

The Voyage, 2025

198 × 270 cm oil, oil stick, charcoal, and pastel on linen

For Sale

$ 19000

About this body of work, Georgia shares: “Earlier this year, I found myself adrift — not lost, exactly, but untethered from a kind of centre that once felt strong within my practice. I felt a deep desire to turn inwards. That desire became the current running through this body of work — a process of mark making, writing, excavating and unearthing, and most importantly allowing the work to reveal itself. It is both story and evidence — a diaristic trace of what it means to feel deeply, to be uncertain, to live in the wake of longing or sorrow.”

“Contrary to the smaller works, I have also found working intuitively at a larger scale — the scale of my own wingspan so to speak - has allowed my emotional landscape to take up space, to give power and magnitude to how I have felt in the moment. I think of Icarus and the act of building wings in order to fly. The idea of reinvention, creation and discovery in order to reach new heights feels akin to how I approach my practice. A perpetual extending of the self, tangled up with ambition and failure.

We do not know why certain things call to us at certain times, all I do is try to listen. I gather up ideas like wildflowers. The horse, the ship, the wing: these recurring images are vessels of transformation. They speak to the desire to unbecome, to undo. To journey. To risk. To unearth. To take a leap. To look into the red sky. These paintings are born from the impulse to both dig up the past and take flight into the glaring sun of the future.”