Georg Meyer-Wiel‘s interdisciplinary work encompasses multiple media and his paintings and drawings are a direct physical and emotional response to the world that surrounds him. Whilst he repeatedly gravitates to the genre of portraiture in his drawings, his large-scale paintings fuse the figurative and the abstract and are usually the result of long-term research and complex material processes.

Having studied Communication Design with a focus on Drawing and Photography at Folkwang University of Art in Germany, Georg received a bursary from the Royal College of Art London and graduated with a Masters degree in Fashion Design from the RCA.

He has since worked simultaneously as an artist and designer of stage and costume for contemporary dance, ballet, film and opera.

Georg's artwork has been exhibited in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Finland, Australia and the USA.
Major exhibitions have taken place at Hockney Gallery London, Henry Moore Gallery London, Michael Commerford Gallery Sydney and the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

Georg is represented in well over 100 private art collections and amongst his numerous clients for costume design are Rambert Dance Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Ballet national de l’Opéra du Rhin and the Australian Dance Theatre.

To pass on his knowledge he is pursuing his academic career and lectures at Regent's University London and has been conducting for many years workshops at the British Museum London, for which the Campaign for Drawing has awarded him the honorary Trailblazer Award.

Georg lives and works in London.

Georg Meyer-Wiel's drawing is a never-ending, constantly updated work in progress, intensely personal, executed with graphic haste in the heat of the moment… They present, in public, a private truth. Seen one by one, they offer us brief encounters of a very masculine immediacy, finding tenderness in the raunchiest of beauties; seen as a series, they initiate a charged conversation with the viewer.

Neil Bartlett. Author, Director

Georg Meyer Wiel creates theatrical images of a mythical nature. What impresses is the sheer delight in the action of painting. Meyer-Wiel has orchestrated his own hues to reflect the secret soul. Can you paint a soul? He can...

Robin Dutt. Author, Curator

About the Muse

Having embarked on my journey as figurative artist, I learnt very soon that my world would be void of inspiration if it wasn't for what each model brings to a session. There is no great art without the right inspiration or muse.

Being face-to-face in the same space, having conversations with the model and enjoying the moments between working together, to get to know each other, is the best part of the creative process for me, more important and rewarding than the final outcome. It breathes the soul into my work.

An artist I admire, who managed to depict this relation beautifully, is painter John Koch, and this photograph is inspired by his 1964 painting 'The Sculptor'.

The image is the result of a collaboration with photographer Pierre Monnerville and model Simone, who posed for me on numerous occasion. It does not come as a surprise that it was Simone's idea to recreate Koch's painting in my studio.

My heartfelt Thanks go out to all those fantastic models that I've been privileged enough to portray over the years.

As a gay man I often wonder what life must have been like over the past centuries, without the rights that large parts of today’s world enjoy and take for granted. When working with life models and portraying them on historical documents, I transport my protagonists into the distant past, where they could not have had the life they live today.

Many of my drawings also reference today’s dress-codes and body culture and I especially like to use documents from countries that until now do not accept and punish homosexuality, as this creates a strong juxtaposition when they are used as context for homoerotic drawings.

Georg Meyer-Wiel