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.
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