Exhibitions & Biography
George Morton-Clark (b. 1982, South London) is a painter whose work brings gestural abstraction into contact with the visual memory of popular culture. With a background in animation, he approaches painting through movement: lines stretch, collide and disappear, while familiar figures emerge and dissolve within layers of paint.
His starting points often come from broadcast cartoons and characters absorbed in childhood. Removed from their original narratives, these images become less about nostalgia than about the way memory alters what it retains. They shift between humour and unease, recognition and distortion. Morton-Clark holds figuration and abstraction in tension, allowing an image to come together at the same moment it begins to break apart.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Koo House Museum in Seoul, Powerlong Museum in Shanghai, and Seoul Auction House. It is held in private collections across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Dr Rolf Lauter, former Chief Curator at MMK Museum Frankfurt, has highlighted the sincerity and energetic force of his practice.