George Wilson: Against Nature

Pilar Corrias presents Against Nature, a solo exhibition of new works by Georg Wilson, the artist’s first with the gallery since the announcement of her representation last year, and the follow up to her debut institutional show at Jupiter Artland.

In Against Nature, Wilson continues to paint the ‘para-pastoral’, a strange, alternate version of the British countryside, where wild creatures inhabit an imaginary world devoid of humans. This new series of paintings focuses specifically on poisonous plant species and the onset of winter, exploring the more fearsome aspects of nature and moments in which the landscape itself may pose a threat to its inhabitants.

The works explore the folklore and historic uses of uncultivated poisonous plants, species such as henbane, thorn-apple and nightshade that grow abundantly across the UK, that have long but frequently forgotten histories in both folk and modern medicine.