George Wigley (b. 1979, UK) is a London-based artist who works across sculpture, printmaking and painting. He completed his MFA at Goldsmiths in 2025.

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Working across sculpture, printmaking and painting, he is concerned with the role of the everyday object in quotidian habits, routines and rituals. He examines the human-scale systems that these support and the global-scale systems that underpin them. Laboriously translating the mass produced into the hand-made multiple, he constructs absurdist systems that interrogate the idea of repetition, function and breakdown in late capitalist society, and how we think about meaning-making in these contexts.

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Education​

2021-2025: MFA, Goldsmiths, London, UK

​2017- 2020: BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London, UK

​1998 - 2002: BA Maths and Philosophy, Balliol College, Oxford, UK

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Prizes

2025: Vice Chancellors Prize, Goldsmiths

​2024: The 'Herbie' prize, BAMS Student Medal Project

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Group Exhibitions

2026: ALL CAPITALS, Hypha Southwark Bridge Road, London

2026: Mundane Shrine II, One Paved Court, Richmond, London 

​2025: Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London

​2024: BAMS Student Medal Exhibition, Birmingham School of Jewellery, Birmingham

2024: MKTPLC, plop residency, London

​2023: Spinning Yarns, Art Hub, London

2023: BAMS Student Medal Exhibition, CSM, London

2023: Goldsmiths MFA interim show, Goldsmiths, London

​2022: Present Tense, Deptford X Festival, London

2022: Beyond Leaving, Enclave Gallery, London

2022: futures_after, Catford, London

2022: At the edge of safehouse, Safehouse 1&2, London

​2021: Transcend, Gallery 3, Margate

2021: ONHOLD, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, Deptford, London

​2020: ArtWorks Open, ArtWorks Project Space, London 

2020: Psychogeographies, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2020: Class of 2020, Copeland Gallery, London

​2019: Camberwell New Art 19/20, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2019: Tight Spaces, Mobile Pop-up Exhibition: Maidstone, Deal, Margate,London

2019: Packington Open, The Packington Gallery, London

2019: Camberwell New Art 18/19, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2019: Merge, CGP London, London

​2018: Negotiating Another, Chelsea College of Arts MA Degree Show 2018, Wimbledon College of Arts

2018: 1st Year Group Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London