



Georg Wilson
The Last Oozings, 2024
Oil on panel
60.5 x 50.5 x 5 cm
23 7/8 x 19 7/8 x 2 in
23 7/8 x 19 7/8 x 2 in
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Referencing John Keats’s poem, The Last Oozings is Wilson’s ode to autumn. As the season arrives, vibrant reds and boisterous greens shift to vivid yellows and smouldering browns, and the...
Referencing John Keats’s poem, The Last Oozings is Wilson’s ode to autumn. As the season arrives, vibrant reds and boisterous greens shift to vivid yellows and smouldering browns, and the land that was once overflowing with abundance retreats. Wilson takes inspiration from British poets from the 1700s and 1800s, from John Clare to Keats and Christina Rossetti. Wilson says, “The thing that stood out the most about reading poetry that referred specifically to autumn was that they all related to themes of wetness and oozing and undulating things going on underneath the soil; everything dying back into this rotting wet soil, and the life that's going to regrow out of that. There’s something indulgent, exciting and alive, but also kind of disgusting in this wetness. I think that title really brings together this feeling of an end as well – but the end before renewal.”