George Eksts

George Eksts is a London based artist using animation, photography, and painting to explore ideas of progress, repetition and the archive.

He uses a combination of digital and analog processes, often moving back and forth between the two. CGI animations might become paintings, which are then photographed to create source material for further works. His exhibitions often combine tangible objects in a physical space with temporary online projects. George has worked as an archival photographer at the V&A museum for several years, resulting in personal projects such as ‘Reverses’, an online archive and published book which reveals hidden artworks and accidental images on the reverses of objects from the museum’s Prints and Drawings collection.

George studied at Falmouth College of Art and Royal College of Art, and has participated in residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and Bemis Center, Omaha. He was Digital Print Fellow at Royal Academy Schools from 2011-13. He has exhibited in group exhibitions at New Contemporaries (ICA London and Liverpool Biennial), London Open at Whitechapel, and solo exhibitions at Hayward Gallery Concrete, Toulouse Espace Ecureuil, University of Herts, Mansions of the Future, Sidney Cooper Gallery and Tintype London.