GEORGE RICHARDSON



& GWEN SION.

George Richardson is a multimedia artist, who allows the concept of an artwork to guide the chosen medium. Around 50% of Richardson’s works ‘look inward’ at his anxieties and personal experiences, including existential concerns relating to human mortality. In these inward-looking works, he uses the medium of sculpture to create still moments, objects which have a physicality more permanent than ourselves.

The other 50% of his practice is made up of works that ‘look outward’ and address the relationship he has with natural phenomena, particularly with bodies of water including the sea and clouds. For A Room With No View, Richardson exhibited three large digital canvas prints from his series named ‘The wrong tool for the job’. This series began when Richardson was living by the sea during the first UK lockdown and he had the idea to use 3D scanning software to scan objects with no edge, such as the sea and the clouds. When the software measures something so immeasurably large it generates glitched and abstracted forms using the cloud imagery, Richardson then takes images from these scans and creates his resulting sky scans.

Richardson collaborated with Gwen Siôn, an experimental composer, producer and artist for this exhibition. Siôn created sound works using a range of instruments that translated the forms and shapes of his sky scans into audio files that were played from a speaker onto the street during the exhibition.