mail@georginasleap.net
I am a British artist living and working in Cairo.
Making sculpture and drawing are my most essential methods of making. I also weave, write, and experiment with ways to draw our attention to sound, light, shadow and space.
I like to set out to investigate how my body’s dimensions, capabilities and senses can generate form. My determined plans quieten when I get into a tactile conversation with a material whose characteristics surprise me. It silently redirects my actions but I test back, manipulating it toward the will of my mind’s eye. Then a form I could never have foreseen can gradually condense into creature-like independence.
EDUCATION
2015 - 2017 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
2009 - 2010 The Drawing Year Prince’s Drawing School, London
2006 - 2009 Bachelor of Arts (Sculpture) with First Class Honours Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London
2005 - 2006 Foundation in Art and Design with Distinction Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lis-a-ma hel sitch / Yet not finished / ل ّسھ متحلش - ARD Art Institution, Garden City, Cairo. 2024
The Winter of Rowan and Iris - Window 135, New Cross Road, London. 2023
Standing Floorstruck and Unstrung - KHM Gallery, Malmö. 2017
RESIDENCIES AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Thread Cultural Centre - Tambacounda, Senegal. 2023. 1 month residency awarded by the Royal Society of Sculptors. Thread is co-directed by Le Korsa and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
Now and here and there together - Cable Depot, London. Summer 2023. (Lead artist) A multidisciplinary collaborative research project funded by a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England
Pangaea Sculptors' Centre's Artist Residency / PARC - Castellón Province, Spain. 2019
Cowhouse Studios Artist Educator Residency - Cowhouse Studios, County Wexford, Ireland 2017
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Importance of Haptic Perception in Sculptural Practice - A paper presented at Blindness and Expanded Sculpture, a conference at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. 2025
Published writing includes:
Nine Wobbly Yellow Grave Attendants - Text included in a collection of artists’ writing published by Aber Press, Sweden. 2021
Some stories of our swallows - Text included in the Adaption, Retelling, an edition of Soanyway online Magazine. 2021
A collection of letters to Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre - part of PSC’s industry of sculpture research writing series. 2018.
AWARDS
Assistans Stipendium - from IASPIS (International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts) Sweden. 2018. This took me to Berlin to spend a year assisting Nina Cannell and Michael Beutler. I was part of Michael’s team for “Råby Planet” a public art festival in Råby, Sweden, in the summer of 2019.
The Richard Ford Award, for a 2 month drawing residency at the Prado Museum - Madrid, Spain. 2010