{"title":"Georgina Clapham","description":"\u003cp style=\"color: #222222;\"\u003eGeorgina Clapham is a British painter based between Dorset and London, UK. She has previously attended City and Guilds of London Art School, 2013 and The Glasgow School of Art, 2014-16, where her work was purchased into the archive. In 2015 she was awarded The Richard Ford Award Travel Scholarship to draw at the Prado Museum Madrid, which helped underpin her knowledge of Old Master paintings. More recently she was accepted onto an Intensive Drawing Course at The Royal Drawing\u003cbr\u003eSchool, London, 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color: #222222;\"\u003eHer work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, holding her debut solo show, ‘Mythologies and Metamorphoses,’ at Triumph Gallery, Moscow in 2018. She has been involved in selected group shows at The Royal Scottish Academy, ‘RSA: New Contemporaries,’ Edinburgh, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh and The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Glasgow. In 2017 she was awarded ‘Most Promising Artist,’ at the Aon Community Art Award in the Leadenhall Building, London. Notable recent group shows include, ‘Me Myself and I,’ Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 2020 and ‘LIMBO,’ at Everyday Gallery, Belgium, 2020 and ‘No Time Like The Present,’ Public Gallery, London, 2020. She has worked on commissions including custom hand painted gloves in collaboration with fashion designer Dilara Findikoglu for her SS2020 London Fashion Week show.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"venus","title":"Venus \u0026 Mars","description":"‘Venus and Mars,’ tempera, 1483, replacing the Greek goddesses of love with a forest vanitas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003estill life and signifiers of a young woman in courtship. The juxtaposition of the artificial and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecountryside. ‘I like the idea of the forest animals getting their hands on the contents of someone’s handbag in Chelsea, besides nonmatter who we are in life we all go back to nature eventually, maybe it’s a sort of memento mori.’","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645137871212,"sku":null,"price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-3_14_02-PM_png.webp?v=1776880573"},{"product_id":"horn-of-plenty","title":"Horn of Plenty","description":"Celebrating the 10-year adversary of Alexander McQueen’s passing. This shoe painting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ereflects on his 2009 collection ‘Horn of Plenty.’ In classical symbolism this is commonly a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elarge horn shaped container overflowing with flowers or nuts, showing abundance and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003enourishment. McQueen inverted its meaning, using the collection to condemn consumerism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eincongruity of past and present ideals.’","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645140132204,"sku":null,"price":4470.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-101848-AM_png.webp?v=1776880582"},{"product_id":"platos-atlantis","title":"Plato's Atlantis","description":"This painting celebrates the 10-year anniversary of fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s last\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecollection ‘Plato’s Atlantis,’ which fell at the dawn of a global lockdown in 2020. The\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecollection reflected on how humans and technology might evolve, garments were a hybrid of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehuman and animal forms, the footwear was the most bizarre, these skeletal shoes, evoking the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebone structure of deep-sea vertebrates. In 2020 this felt like a timely social comment, with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esurveillance and a ban on leaving the house, the juxtaposition of a grotto in an estate near the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehumans to evolve to survive.","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645140722028,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/PLATOS-ATLANTIS-1.webp?v=1776880584"},{"product_id":"rodeo-drive","title":"Rodeo Drive","description":"‘Rodeo Drive,’ named after the Beverly Hills shopping mecca, shows a Prada 00’ limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWicked Witch of the West. The bag here replacing the ruby red slippers, which grant her access\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto power. The rabbit who is also synonymous with magic and illusion steps in to compete with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eher. It seems to represent the emphasis we put on material consumption and physical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etransformation, how we deal with ageing or a sense of not belonging due to physical attributes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethat do not fit the mould, drivers of consumerism the world over.","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645141934444,"sku":null,"price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/IMG_3160-copy_jpg.webp?v=1776880589"},{"product_id":"cleopatra","title":"Cleopatra","description":"A sense of mystery and storytelling is reflected in ‘Cleopatra,’ the archetypal female figure is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof gender stereotypes whilst embracing her sexuality. The domesticated sake appears as a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esymbol of fertility and protection whilst the lapis lazuli background also symbolises truth,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003epsychic connection, and wisdom. In another sense, these works explore female identity through\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaccessories such as designer bags and shoes that double up as the armour that we choose to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eprotect us, by displaying our economic status, and contributing to our sense of sexual agency\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand feminine power.","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645141967212,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-28-at-101821-AM_png.webp?v=1776880588"},{"product_id":"princess-julia","title":"HRH Princess Julia","description":"This small vertical 31 inch high by 23.5 inch wide original oil painting on canvas is stretched and ready to hang. A portrait of the British DJ and London fashion icon Princess Julia. Made over Zoom during\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elockdown from an outfit curated by Julia herself, it reflects the New Romantic fashion scene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof her youth. The intensity of the mysterious outdoor background reflects 18th century swagger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eportraits of the wealthiest patrons who wanted to be elevated by classical backdrops. The detail in this artwork is astounding. From the gaze and makeup details around the eyes to the the ornate jewelry, Princess Julia is absolutely sublime. The sides of the artwork are not painted and it does not require framing. It is signed and titled by the artist on the back of the artwork\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBritish painter Georgina Clapham conspicuously engages with story telling and theatricality, drawing together Renaissance portraiture, Greek Mythology, folklore, mysticism, animals, nature, the artificial, high fashion, subculture, gender, identity and sexuality, in her meticulous life size figurative paintings. Through the traditional media of oil paint on linen and intaglio printmaking, she creates her own contemporary mythologies. Staging her paintings using people in her everyday life, she infuses these timeless narratives with the intimacy and tangibility of her friendships and personal relationships drawing out their psychology and sexuality; as such, the works become as much a depiction of her own imagined narrative as of the individuals’ personality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe has previously attended City and Guilds of London Art School, 2013 and The Glasgow School of Art, 2014-16, where her work was purchased into the archive. In 2015 she was awarded The Richard Ford Award Travel Scholarship to draw at the Prado Museum Madrid, which helped underpin her knowledge of Old Master paintings. More recently she was accepted onto an Intensive Drawing Course at The Royal Drawing School, London, 2017.","brand":"Georgina Clapham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53645142524268,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/files\/princess-julia-gerogina-clapham_png.webp?v=1776880591"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/9023\/6012\/collections\/PLATOS-ATLANTIS-1-600x600.webp?v=1776916100","url":"https:\/\/www.mashgallery.com\/collections\/georgina-clapham.oembed","provider":"MASH Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}