George Richardson (b. 1998) lives and works in London. He completed his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2023, becoming an artist in residence at Sarabande Foundation for which he received the Sarabande Emerging Artist Grant (2023-2024). He was then re-awarded the Sarabande Foundation Artist Residency for 2024-2025.
Working with sculptural interventions to re-contextualise the everyday, Richardson’s practice is a continual ‘making-sense-of’ encounters between ones self and objects we meet and form connections to, often existing in a re-imagined domestic space where the familiar becomes uncanny. He believes there are no neutral decisions in sculpture, and uses the associations of material and form to create playful, curious connections. He imagines something ‘resonates’ when there is a point of connection between a person’s lived experience and an object. Often this resonation is strongest when the source of the connection is difficult to find.
Richardson had a solo exhibition with Pipeline, London (2025). His work has been included in a number of group shows, including Night Cafe (2026), Art Brussels, Belgium with Night Cafe Gallery (2025) MEGA Art Fair, Milan, Italy, with Pipeline (2025) Krupa Gallery, London (2025) Kensington Roof Gardens x House of Bandits (2025) London Art Services (2025) House of Bandits x Selfridges, London, UK, The Hari Art Prize, London (2024); House of Bandits (2025) ; Sarabande Foundation, London (2024); Alice Black Gallery, London (2024); OHSH Projects, London (2024); Max Radford Gallery, London (2023); a duo show at Flexitron Gallery, London, in collaboration with Pipeline, London (2023); UCL Museum, London (2023); Lethaby Gallery, London (2021).
Richardson’s work has been acquired by the UK’s Government Art Collection as well as other notable collections in the UK, Italy and USA.
Education & Residencies:
2026: Good Eye Residency, London, UK
2024 - 2025: Sarabande Foundation (second year awarded), Artist Residency, London, UK
2023 - 2024: Sarabande Foundation, Artist Residency, London, UK
2021 - 2023: MFA Sculpture, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2020 - 2022: ACME/UAL Associate Studio Programme, Stockwell, London, UK
2017 - 2020: BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, UK
2019: BA Fine Art, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Solo Exhibition:
April- May 2025, ‘ Twice As Tall In The Rain’ Solo Exhibition, Pipeline, London
Museum Exhibitions:
2023: University College London Slade Showcase, UCL Museum
Art Fairs:
2025: Art Brussels, Belgium - With Night Cafe Gallery
2025: MEGA Art Fair, Milan, Italy - With Pipeline
Collaborations / Commissions:
2026: Public Sculpture Commission for Sarabande Foundation on Tottenham High Road
2024: Featured Artist for New York Sarabande Fundraiser, The Standard Hotel, USA
2024: Site-Specific Sculpture for Soho House Manchester
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026: In Chests, Nests and Shells, Night Cafe Gallery, London, UK
2025: Harrow, Krupa Gallery, London, UK
2025 Kensington Roof Gardens x House of Bandits, London, UK
2025: LAS Invites, London Art Services, London, UK
2025: House of Bandits x Selfridges, London, UK
2024: Sarabande House of Bandits exhibition, 5 Carlos Place, Mayfair, London, UK
2024: The Hari Art Prize, London, UK
2024: September: Dumping Group, Hypha Studios, Euston, London, UK
2024: September: Sarabande Summer Show, Sarabande Foundation, London, UK
2024: Mixed Feelings, Alice Black Gallery, London, UK
2024: Wonderland, Filet Space, London, UK
2024: Annual Sadness, St Peters Organ Factory, London, UK
2023: Poison, OHSH Projects, New Oxford Street, London, UK
2023: Pipeline Gallery x Flexitron Gallery, Duo Exhibition, London, UK
2023: Max Radford Gallery, London, UK
2023: Borrowing Tomorrow’s Happiness, Take Courage Gallery, London, UK
2023: Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, London, UK
2023: Bedrock, Crypt Gallery, Euston, London, UK
2022: Kisses, Glassyard, Stockwell, London, UK
2022: Graduate Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2022: November: The Worm at the Core, SET Woolwich, London, UK
2021: Behind The Glass, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
2021: Belay, Kensington High Street, London, UK
2021: Cloud Nine - A Room With No View, Crouch End, London, UK
2020: 2020 Visionaries, Myo/Landsec Office, Westminster, London, UK
2020: Graduate Showcase, Central Saint Martins, UAL, online exhibition
2020: WIRE, Recinto VI Lucana, Matera, Italy
2020: BUILT, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London, UK
2020: Home Game, online exhibition, Saint Maison Gallery
2019: Off the Canvas, Pratt Institute (Main Gallery), New York, USA
2019: Gator, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2018: You Call That a Painting?, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2017: Paint it Black, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2016: Foundation Show, SGS College, Stroud, UK
Press:
Vogue: ‘Sarabande Featured Artist George Richardson’ - Link
Liberty London - Inspired by LBTY: Tudor by George Richardson - Link
Vogue Italia - Link
Wallpaper Magazine - Link
FAD: ‘Top 5 Art Exhibitions to See In London’ - Link
London Art Roundup Issue 121 - Link
Sarabande - Link
The Standard - Link
London Art Roundup - Link
Artie Magazine - Link
Plaster Magazine - Link
10 Magazine - Link
Exibart - Link
Double Agents: Associate Studio Programme 2020, Selected Artists
Central Saint Martins Museum, Boys Don’t Cry Exhibition
Prizes & Grants:
2024: The Hari Art Prize - Shortlisted
2023: Slade Graduate Boise Award
2023: Gilbert Bayes Award for Sculptors
2022: Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust - Grant
2022: Slade School of Fine Art, UCL - Bursary
2021: LUMBs Educational Foundation - Grant
2021: Nichol Young Foundation - Grant
2021: Cheltenham Arts Council - Grant
2021: SPT Westminster - Grant
2020: Subsidised Studio Space on Associate Studio Programme (2 Years)