Georgia Spain is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, music and film, and often sits at the intersection between figuration and abstraction, where she seeks to explore the nuances and uncertainties of the human experience. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2015. In 2020, Spain was the recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and in 2021 was the winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize for her work, Getting down or falling up (2021).
Ben Quilty on painting paradoxes
Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.