Harry Georgeson

"My approach to sculpture originates from my interest in human beings, set within our modern condition. This interest is essentially anthropocentric and draws upon the vast corpus of figurative styles from different civilizations."
- Harry Georgeson

Harry Georgeson is a figurative bronze and stone sculpture. He is interested in light and space and how they reveal form across and between surfaces. Georgeson uses drawing and clay to model his works.

Education and Training
National Art School, ASTC., Sydney, Australia
Studied drawing under Peter Powditch and sculpture under Ian McKay, Irene Broadhurst, Eula Stagpoole, Burt Flugelman, and Ron Robertson Swan
Mentored in Ancient and Modern History by Harry Nicolson
New York Studio School, New York, New York
Studied under George Spaventa, Sidney Geist, Clement Meadmore, and William Tucker Skowhegan Art School, Skowhegan, Maine
Studio Assistant: Ron Robertson Swan, Ian McKay, Stephen Walker, (Sydney), Deborah Remington (New York), Sidney Geist (New York)

Influences
Influences include Greek and Roman sculpture, Auguste Rodin, the 1960's and 1970's culture of Sydney including artists such as Ian McKay and Ron Robertson Swan, Anthony Caro, as well as Sidney Geist, Deborah Remington, and Clement Meadmore

Colleagues and Organizations
Richard Lennox, Tom Chesar, Malcolm Bray, Christopher Spath, William Hogan, Susan Hogan, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, International Sculpture Center

Connection to Bucks County
Georgeson studied in, and now has a studio in New Hope. He has exhibited at the New Hope Arts Center, Bucks Gallery of Fine Art, and has been part of the Newtown annual exhibition for over 5 years. Georgeson is also a prize winner of Juried Exhibitions with the Phillips Mill Annual Art Exhibition.

Solo Exhibitions
Sculpture Center, Sydney, Australia, 1973-1975
Nolo Contendere, New York, New York, 1987
Jon Gerstad Gallery, New York, New York, 1987
DeBlois Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island, 1993
Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1999

Major Group Exhibitions
Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1971
Artists for the Labor Party, Paddington Town Hall, Sydney, Australia, 1974
International Sculpture Conference, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1980
S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, New York, 1980
Exhibition Space, 112 Greene Street, New York, New York, 1985
Pascal Gabert Gallery, Paris, France, 1986
Stockwell Gallery, New York, New York, 1987
Water Mill Museum, Water Mill, New York, 1995
A.R.T. Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1997
Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 1998
The Bridgehampton Cultural Center, Bridgehampton, New York, 1998
Diane Levell Studio, Buckingham, Pennsylvania, 1999
Trevor Harvey Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2000
First Annual Group Exhibition, Bucks Gallery of Fine Art, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 2004
Annual Group Exhibition, Bucks Gallery of Fine Art, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 2008
Joan Perkes Fine Art, “National and International”, Lambertville, New Jersey, 2012
Ellarslie Open 34, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, 2017
“Face Maps”, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, Trenton, New Jersey, 2018
Colm Rowan Gallery, Boston Art & Antiques Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, 2019
Phillips Mill Annual Art Exhibition, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2001, 2000, 1998, 1997
The Owl and the Nightingale, Malcolm Bray and Harry Georgeson, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2020

Scholarships and Grants
Australia Council Studio Grant, 1976
Australia Council Travel Grant, 1977
Peter Brown Scholarship, New York Studio School, New York, 1978
Skowhegan Art School Scholarship, Skowhegan, Maine, 1979
Barnett Newman Scholarship, New York Studio School, New York, 1980

Awards
Ellarslie Open 34, First Prize for Sculpture, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, 2017
Phillips Mill Patron’s Award for Sculpture, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2016
Phillips Mill Patron’s Award for Sculpture, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1998