Georgia Dymock's practice explores intimacy, desire, and identity through allegorical figuration. Her paintings combine digitally mediated imagery with the material language of oil paint, using symbolic environments and staged bodily encounters to explore contemporary experiences of affection, alienation, and emotional performance. Drawing on contemporary visual culture alongside historical traditions of emblematic and devotional painting, Dymock’s work investigates the ever-evolving boundaries between self and other. She draws inspiration from a wide range of influences, from the metaphorical language of Renaissance and Baroque painting to the psychological distortions of Surrealism and the seductive artificiality of contemporary visual culture.

Using imagination and symbolism, the artist creates paintings that occupy a space between dream and psychological fiction. Through staged encounters between paired figures, she constructs emotionally charged scenes in which tenderness and unease, familiarity and
possession, coexist. Her subjects often appear suspended within artificial, candy-coloured environments. These settings function as contemporary allegorical spaces, where relationships unfold through ambiguous bodily gestures and shifting power dynamics.

Dymock regularly moves between digital and physical processes, using 3D modelling and digital image-making to develop compositions before translating them into paint. This movement between screen and canvas creates a dialogue in which each medium informs the other. Digital tools allow her to construct psychologically charged spaces and choreograph relationships between figures, generating environments that feel simultaneously familiar, theatrical, and uncanny.

The artist is drawn to oil painting not only for its material richness but also for its historical associations with flesh, devotion, and illusion. The medium introduces a physical vulnerability that transforms smooth digital imagery into something slower, heavier, and more emotionally
complex. Through visible traces of touch and painterly surface, oil paint intensifies the tension between artificial sweetness and bodily presence that runs throughout the work.

Dymock thinks of her practice as a form of contemporary allegorical world-building, where symbolic motifs, constructed environments, and psychologically entangled figures come together to create open-ended emotional narratives. By combining historical references with digitally mediated imagery, she seeks to build fictional worlds that explore the contradictions of contemporary intimacy, allowing longing, tenderness, anxiety, and transformation to coexist within the same pictorial space.

Georgia Dymock (b. 1998, UK) lives in London and is represented by Gillian Jason Gallery. Dymock holds an MFA in Fine Art Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art (2023), a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Chelsea College of Art (2020), and a BSc in Anthropology from UCL (2019). Dymock won the 2023 Cass Art Prize, has been selected as one of the 2024 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, was a finalist for the 2024 Ingram Prize, and in 2025 she was also awarded ACS Studio Prize. Her work features in international private collections as well as in the institutional collection of the Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.