FRIEZE LONDON 2026

Sholto Blissett’s imagined landscapes question preconceivednotions about the natural world, prompting viewers toreconsider inherited ideas and categories that shape ourunderstanding of nature and the wilderness. Building uponthe traditions of landscape painting, Blissett approachesnature as an unfolding process rather than a fixed scene,where change occurs in rhythms and forces far beyondhuman perception. In this body of work, Blissett exploreslandscape as a site of flux, where excitement and fearintertwine with a romantic nostalgia, unfolding acrosstimeless horizons.

Spanning film, painting, drawing and sculpture, Rachel Rose’swork traces the ways landscapes shape human experienceand how the stories and belief systems we weave are bornfrom them. In The Rest, Rose draws on the canon of paintingsdepicting the Holy Family resting during their flight intoEgypt, reimagining the scene through Mary’s perspectiveand relocating it in present landscapes. The series movesfrom dawn to night, and Rose’s smearing, blurring and flashesof focus within the paintings illustrate the suspension of time,making that as much the subject of the paintings as thelandscape itself. Nature appears fluid and changing, seenthrough the eyes of a mother in love.

Drawing inspiration from English folklore, art history,poetry and ecology, Georg Wilson’s paintings imagine analternative natural world in which humanity is absent. Wilsoninterrogates the historic legacy of landscape painting definedby artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, challenging theromanticised vision of the English countryside. Instead of‘green and pleasant’ pastoral scenes, Wilson’s compositionsare inhabited by wild creatures that are entangled withnature, inviting us to consider a non-human perspective.Influences from Samuel Palmer to Richard Dadd inform theartist’s approach to colour and form, while Wilson’s uniqueapproach to texture and mark-making enriches her world-building, unifying its surfaces, forms and beings.

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Sholto Blissett (b. 1996) is a British painter. Recent solo exhibitionsinclude: Orders of Magnitude, Pilar Corrias, London (2026); The whiteheat of cold water, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2025); Life inDeep Time, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2024); Arboreal, PeresProjects, Milan (2023); Rubicon, Alexander Berggruen, New York(2023). Selected group shows include: Alien Shores, White Cube,London (2025); Bright Stars: Painters from London, Mattia di LucaGallery, Rome (2025); The Silver Cord, Huxley-Parlour, London (2024),and Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2024).

Georg Wilson (b. 1998) is a British painter. She is a twice-recipient ofthe Elizabeth Greenshields award (2021–2), was shortlisted for theIngram Prize (2022) and New Contemporaries (2023). Upcomingand recent solo exhibitions include: The Ancient Pulse of Germ andBirth, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury (November 2026); AgainstNature, Pilar Corrias, London (2026); The Earth Exhales, JupiterArtland, London (2025); The Last Oozings, Pilar Corrias, London (2025).Selected group exhibitions include: Episode II: Figuring Out Britain,Matt Carey-Williams, Seoul (2024); The Nature of Things, Castor Gallery,London (2024); Realms, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate (2024) andBloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre, London (2024).

Rachel Rose (b. 1986) lives and works in New York. Recent soloexhibitions include: Luma Westbau, Zurich (2025); Science Gallery,London (2024); GL STRAND, Copenhagen (2023); LUMA, Arles(2023); SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (2023); CC Strombeek, Strombeek(2022); Pond Society, Shanghai (2020); Lafayette Anticipations,Paris (2020); Fridericianum, Kassel (2019); LUMA Foundation, Arles(2019); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2018); FondazioneSandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2018); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz(2017); Museu Serralves, Porto (2016); The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen(2016); The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015);Serpentine Gallery, London (2015) and Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2015).