Georgia Peskett Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Paintings on silk Georgia Peskett regularly exhibits her work nationally and internationally, Unquiet Landscapes, YAS Sheffield 2026 Longlisted Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023, 2024 Selected for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 15, 19, 20, 22 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018, Art on a Postcard 2015 - 2025 inclusive.
My painting is rooted in self-development, with a personal focus on my past and the present. The works take on amorphous identities, I often use veils as metaphors, employing stretched silk as my medium on which I then apply the paint, I want the finished pieces to reveal to the viewer a little of my internal dialogue, highlighting the quiet observations I find as I excavate past events and memory. These paintings combine found objects in my environment to create a new language, reclaiming an authentic voice through my painting.
During 2020, I began making work that was emotionally influenced by lockdown. My painting now is ambiguous with organic objects whose true form is abstracted from the viewer, depicted in states of metamorphoses alongside veils in my Voile Series. This crossing between abstract and figurative echoes many of my own unclear feelings as I navigate my internal world.
Recently discovering my neurodiversity has highlighted my relationship with my subject material. An obsession to paint glass objects has persisted, the diagnosis last year shedding new light on this interest. The dominant frame when I am looking through portals, my viewpoint always a new window, I keep a little distance when it comes to others and social situations, this feels safe for me, the glass acts as barrier. An outsiders view. The five-year old I once was, who didn’t join in but preferred to observe the playground activities from the sidelines and edges, who instead took great interest in the natural world in and around the playground fence with its weeds, debris and insects. ‘Glint’ and ‘Maroon Dreams’ both use photographs taken during childhood to become part of these paintings in my Glass Series 2026. ‘Staying In, Self Portrait’ describes the comforting sense of safety within a darkened internal world.
Artwork
Staying In, Self Portrait , Acrylic and gesso on silk over cradled panel, 2026, NULL
Glint, Self as a Child, Mixed media, acrylic and emulsion on silk, 2026, 1500
INDIGO I, Acrylic and Ink on silk over canvas, 2024, 1400
Thin Skin I, Acrylic and emulsion on silk over wooden panel, 2024, 3200
OBSCURER I, Acrylic and mixed media on paper over ply panel, 2024, 1400
Kitchen Self 2, Oil and Wax on silk over canvas, 2021
Something in the Way IV (2022), Oil and mixed media on silk over cradled panel, 2022, 2500
Something in the Way III, Oil and pastel on silk over canvas, 2022
Something in the Way II (2022), Oil and mixed media on silk over board, 2022
Something in the Way VI (2022), Oil and mixed media on silk over panel, 2023
Projects and exhibitions
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Flow13/02/2026 — 28/02/2026 MELITTA NEMETH, LUCY CADE, ALEX FOX, AND GEORGIA PESKETT SEAGER Gallery presents FLOW, the exhibition explores the state of deep focus and absorption artists experience in the studio. Working between abstraction and figuration, the selected artists developed distinct visual languages shaped by intuition, material, and process. |
Seager Gallery, London | Details |
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Irving Open31/01/2026 — 01/02/2026 Group Exhibition at Irving Gallery, Oxford includes 98 contemporary painters and sculptors 28 Essex Street Oxford OX4 3AW |
Irving Gallery, Oxford | Details |
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Unquiet Landscapes04/12/2025 — 23/01/2026 Unquiet Landscapes, a collaboration between Yorkshire Artspace and Contemporary British Painting, |
Persistence Works, Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield | Details |
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50/5020/06/2024 — ongoing Stacie McCormick selected 100 artists over the age of 50 to demonstrate the talent in this often overlooked demographic of artists working today |
Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London | Details |
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It Rose and It Fell29/05/2024 — 23/06/2024 150 painters 150 paintings curated by Terrace Gallery artist/curator Karl Bielik |
Patchworks XYZ E10, London | Details |
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A Room of One’s Own01/03/2024 — 30/03/2024 Vanessa Lacey curated a remarkable exhibition including 75 contemporary painters |
Irving Gallery, Oxford | Details |
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CONTRAFIBULATARIES01/04/2023 — 16/06/2023 A group exhibition of works curated by Sean Williams |
Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield | Details |
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Material Presence20/11/2022 — 26/11/2022 A group exhibition of 50 artists |
Fitzrovia Gallery, London | Details |
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 202213/06/2022 — 23/08/2022 Selected for this by Architect Farshid Moussavi |
Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly, London | Details |
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 202001/10/2020 — 02/01/2021 A group exhibition selected by established members of the Royal Academy This was Georgia's third inclusion in this highly esteemed annual exhibition |
The Royal Academy, London | Details |
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Small World Group Exhibition of Small Work08/07/2017 Group Exhibition of Contemporary Small Works Exhibition open every Saturday 11am to 5pm until 13th August and will be part of the MANIFEST programme which coincides with the 2017 Manchester International Festival. |
PSMirabel, Manchester | Details |
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Harley Open Biennale24/06/2017 The Harley Open gives us an exciting insight into what Britain’s artists are making now. We love getting entries from established artists but it’s just as important to us to see work by people who are just starting out, or maybe haven’t shown their work in a gallery very much before. We get entries that are serious or funny, detailed or... [Read more] |
The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire | Details |