Georgina Clapham is a British painter and printmaker, currently based in Los Angeles. She combines the traditional media of oil paint on linen with contemporary screen-printing methods, engaging with storytelling to depict the body and its accoutrements, with a focus on female sexuality and the psyche.
Georgina Clapham's Style and Practice
Clapham's paintings operate as surrogate self-portraits, in which she highlights the tragicomic nature of living in 21st century society through British deadpan humour and satire. She examines archetypal figures in history, from fantasy, folklore or legends to celebrity and the lifestyles that have been mythologised by popular culture.
Using the tropes of advertising to unpack the façades involved in the production of desire, her paintings reflect the chaos and seduction of contemporary content consumption, the glitch and artifice of identity construction in our current digital climate.
Clapham embraces renaissance painting techniques and childlike gestures, oscillating between the flatness of the painting's surface and the demands of the image as it emerges, mimicking the push and pull of the screen and our reality.
Exhibitions and Accolades
Georgina Clapham (b.1993) UK is a candidate to receive her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, LA (2025). She holds a BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art (2016) and competed an intensive drawing program at The Royal Drawing School, London (2017).
Clapham is a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including 'The Richard Ford Award Travel Scholarship' to draw at the Prado Museum, Madrid, (2015) and the Plop Residency, London. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, holding her debut solo show at Triumph Gallery, Moscow (2018).
Notable selected group exhibitions include: 'New Contemporaries,' The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2017), Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh (2017), Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2020), Public Gallery, London (2020), Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (2021), Mash Gallery, LA (2023) and Port Art Fair with Fabula Gallery, St. Petersburg (2023).
She has also collaborated with fashion designer Dilara Findikoglu in London Fashion Week (2020). Permanent collections include The Royal Academy, London and The Glasgow School of Art Archive collection.
