Georgia Beaumont | A Place Time Cannot Touch
Artist
Georgia Beaumont
Georgia’s new work is a meditative reflection on the affective spaces we hold onto in memory. Precious, eternal and shielded against the slow decay of time. A place time cannot touch.
Drawing on early experiences at her grandmother’s bucolic home in West Wales - swimming in the brook with her cousins, picnicking on the mountain, and toying through her manifold hoarded possessions - Georgia curates a selection of works, incorporating both the paintings for which she is celebrated as well as a host of domestic objects blanketed in her painterly lexicon of botanical motifs, marking a significant departure for the artist who has until now exhibited only her paintings.
Across this work, the animacy of the vegetal world sprawls across wooden panels and furnishing alike, unfurling and interlocking in a vibrant chatter of petal, stem and leaf laid upon a palette of soft blushes and blues.
In A Place Time Cannot Touch, memory and landscape are bound together, teased apart, and reconstituted anew. In the diptych Symbiosis (2026), densely woven of filaments coalesce into the likeness of a mirror image, yet, in their discrepancies, speak to the not-quite-sameness of a landscape as is and as remembered. In Tomorrow’s Sky (2026), memory as a vignetting device is itself rendered part of the work, in the guise of a floral proscenium arch, transmuting the painting beneath into a kind of performance - the performance of recollection.
In other works, an idealised domesticity, emergent of the artist’s memory of her grandmother’s home, takes centre stage. In Versions of A Life (2026), a modular partition screen enacts the interstitial reality of a landscape at once real and recalled, while Quilt (2026), a silk eiderdown quilt embroidered with a delicate pair of double-headed buttercups, speaks to the dreamlike comfort of homely spaces past, accessible now only through memory.
Throughout the collection, botanical bodies migrate across paintings and domestic objects alike, collapsing the distinction between landscapes and the interior worlds they come to occupy. Here, florals are at once subjects and the material through which memory is articulated. Repeated forms echo the modality of recollection itself, returning to familiar images altered subtly with each encounter.
It is through this ecosystem of charged objects that Georgia conjures the full emotive richness of a memory-bound space no longer accessible in reality, but which endures as an internal plane of being motivating her work. Words by Tom McAllister
Date:
24.9.26- 17.10.26
Georgia Beaumont (b.1996) is a UK-based painter whose work reimagines floral forms as a way to deepen her connection with the natural world.
Georgia embraces the idea that consciousness extends beyond the human, existing in all matter. In this way, nature becomes a reflection of our own inner landscape of thought, intuition and emotion. Her dancing botanical shapes are not only a celebration of fecundity and nature’s beauty but also an ode to a shared life-force.
Georgia considers her forms to be a self-generative language, rooted in nature yet imbued with symmetry and sigil-like elements, which meet the more sprawling, intuitive gestures within her compositions. Observing nature, researching its symbolism, and finding solace in both its ephemeral adjustments and its great cyclical change are essential to her practice.
Each work is fused with memory and imagery from the mind’s eye, where floral motifs intertwine with gestural brushstrokes, transparent veils, and rigid, opaque stems. Georgia holds these to be physical manifestations of a kinship to the natural world, and ode to its wisdom, as their instinctual, unselfconscious energy echoes nature’s output.
Georgia’s paintings have been exhibited in London, Barcelona, Milan, Mexico City, and Sydney, and are held in private collections internationally.
Exhibitions:
2026- While it Holds, Group show, Wilder Gallery, curated in collaboration with Susan Davis. 2024- Monuments, Cohle Gallery, Paris
2024- Music Of The Wild Earth, Violet Hour, London
2024- Reverence, Purslane
2024 - The Spirit’s Gaze (solo), Wilder Gallery, London
2023 - Ode to Autumn, The Violet Hour
2023 - In My Hand A Forest Lies Asleep, curated by The Violet Hour, Notting Hill, London
2023 - In Bloom with Victoria Law Projects, Chelsea, London
2023 - 37A Collective, Seoul, South Korea
2023 - 8 Holland Street x Collagerie, London
2022 - The Summer Exhibition at Alex Eagle Studio: 'Bright Young Things', Soho, London
2022 - Meet Me By The River, Purslane Art, Virtual Show
2022 - Where's The Frame for Art Aid Ukraine x The Auction Collective, Virtual Show
2022 - The Art Unit, Koppel X, Picadilly Circus, London
2022 - Behind the Glue, Casa Lu, Mexico City
2022 - Venomous, D Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London
2021 - Human Concern, The Artists Contemporary, Virtual Show
2021 - Pop up with Domenica Marland, Compton McRae, Wiltshire
2021 - Fille Et., Filet Space, Hackney, London
2021 - Pop up with Domenica Marland, JM Gallery, Portobello Road, London
2021 - Across The River, New Grass Gallery, Chiswick, London
2020 - Anti-Freeze, Virtual Show, curated by Cassandra Bowes
2019 - Sent Folder, Sydney, Australia
2019 - GIFC / Velvet Ropes, Vauxhall, London
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Press:
Flourish Zine, Issue 1, 2024
Architectural Digest, October 2023
The Floristry, September 2023
Out of Season, August 2023
Salon Magazine, Summer 2023
Les Nouveaux Riches, July 2023
Juliet Magazine, June 2023
The World of Interiors, April 2023
The Art Unit, February 2023
Lick, In Good Taste Magazine, March 2023
Remotely, Lucy Williams Newsletter, November 2022
Sheerluxe, ‘The Cool New Artists To Keep An Eye On’, November 2022
House of Hackney, Dreamers and Schemers, Spring 2022
