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10/1/2013

Georgia Hayes

Transition Gallery, London

Things on display in Hayes’s museums seem as alive and lively as the people, and the people are as detached as the things. Barry Schwabsky

Transition is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Georgia Hayes. Her large scale, figurative paintings, which zing with exuberant colour have been called ‘resolutely modern’ by Martin Maloney, their simplified graphic language bringing to mind Philip Guston, Alex Katz and her immediate contemporaries Rose Wylie and Roy Oxlade.

Animals, museum objects and opera singers take centre stage in equal measure in Hayes's paintings. Indeed, they may be in the space together, calling into question the order of things and pointing us to the thresholds that symbolically mark not only the boundaries of a society but its values and beliefs as well. A fresh sense of wonder, like that which inspired the very first museums, permeates Hayes’s vision. Whether observed from life or imaginatively invented, we are able to recognise ourselves as subjects of what we are doing and thinking, or indeed singing, out loud.

Georgia Hayes : Sing Out Loud will be accompanied by a catalogue priced at £7 which includes an essay by Barry Schwabsky.

Georgia Hayes was born in 1946 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and currently lives in East Sussex. From 1977-82 she was a student of Roy Oxlade. Her group exhibitions include East & South (1992), John Moores 18, Oriel Mostyn (1993), Harlech International (1994), John Moores 25 (2008). Solo exhibitions include SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco (2002), Café Gallery Projects, London (2003) and Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica (2006).

Preview: Friday 11 January 2013, 6-9pm

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road, London
Gallery Open: Fri-Sun 12-6pm

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