I met Georgina Dymock online in September 2020, when she contacted me for advice about her artistic career. I am delighted to share the news of her first solo exhibition at JD Malat Gallery, in London. I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate her to her tremendous achievement.
Georgia Dymock’s painterly language is influenced by society portraits of the Polish artist, Tamara de Lempicka, as well as Hellenistic mythology. The human form is always central to her work, resulting at times in beings of undefined gender with quirky and wonderous appearances. Her paintings are both intellectually and technically complex.
During lockdown, Dymock excelled in her studio, creating her rosy, fleshy idols. Day by day, she painted endlessly, compelled by heavy techno music. In her visual vernacular, we encounter plump personages equipped with fans, pearls, and phones. They are either morphed together or solitary, gazing at us with large, exaggerated eyes. Some pictorial backgrounds are of a single colour, others are of several shades with decorations, always portraying eccentric, intently staring faces. Their unusual, monochromatic, rounded forms present Dymock’s innovative approach to contemporary painting. They do not merely depict bodies; her original methods are of equal importance and demonstrate her pioneering creative spirit.
Hand-drawn sketches are digitally manipulated by Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software, to achieve an airbrushed quality and accomplish a wide colour palette. Dymock then confronts the gritty, sand-primed canvas with both oil and acrylic paint, using a mix of brushes and rollers. Dymock states: “I am interested in the ‘imperfections’ that come through the labour of the painterly process, where the paint gathers and hairs of the brush sit on the canvas.”
Her artistic process is also inspired by 20th Century Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan’s famous quote, “The medium is the message.” Dymock says she is “curious about the allure of digital aesthetics, I use the versatile nature of oil paint to capture soft, unblemished surfaces that are typical of the digital.”
Often, Dymock’s gazing creatures are knotted, twisted, and entwined with an execution beyond forms and colours. She truly catches the eye with their voluptuous silhouettes and the unique surroundings they occupy, bringing to the fore potent narratives.
Georgia Dymock was born in 1998 in Derbyshire and lives in London. She obtained her BSc in Anthropology from University College London and is currently pursuing her MFA in Fine Art Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, (UCL).
Georgia Dymock’s solo exhibition, “Under our Together,” at JD Malat Gallery, showcases twelve new paintings, open until 9 April 2022.
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Georgia Dymock, diptych part one, 2022, oil on linen, H1500 mm x W1500 mm.
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Images courtesy and ©Geogria Dymock, JD Malat Gallery and Renée Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, music: Eric Matyas, Electric Rain https://soundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Electric_Rain.mp3 with the assistance of Georgia McConnell. All rights reserved.