Well known for her distinctive painting that bridges the atmospheric and psychedelic, Georgie Hill’s work combines gestural mark making in paint, with hard geometries, of appliqué-like collage elements, and the artist’s “carved” linework that excoriate and divide the work surface. Paintings that image and collate an array of loosely repetitive abstract pattern-like forms. Each which flow, dance and radiate from centre to edge. Prismatic. Aura-like. Rendered in variegated palette—with colours ranging from soft pinks, blues and greys, to bright vermillion red, deep indigo blue, and lurid acid yellow—they recall optical phenomena and effects; as well as other things observable in nature, albeit things abstruse and otherworldly.
Georgie Hill (b. 1979, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau. She has exhibited extensively with solo and group presentations at many of the country’s top galleries and museums. She has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award, the C Art Trust Award and the Youkobo Art Space residency in Tokyo. Her work is held in the collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the University of Auckland and The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Key exhibitions include: Feint at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi/ Gus Fisher Gallery, 2014 and the Beijing Contemporary Art Fair, 2019.