Geraldine Swayne

Geraldine Swayne is a UK (Sussex)-based painter best known for making vivid miniatures in enamel on metal, as well as large figurative work on canvas. Her practice also includes moving image and music, directing an IMAX film in 1999, and becoming a member of the seminal Krautrock group Faust in 2006. She is currently a mentor at Marcus Harvey’s Turps Art School. Her figurative paintings combine a rapid performative energy with the mysterious frozen narrative of a context-free film still, typically using an omnivorous variety of sources: personal photographs, found images, pornography etc. to conjure otherworldly narratives and portraits. Recent exhibitions 2024–2025 include, Geraldine Swayne at Saskia Neuman Gallery, Stockholm, Sussex Modernism at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Transmissions at Hastings Museum, The Minds of Geraldine Swayne at Project 73 UK, It's Coming from Inside curated by Sarah Sparkes and Jane Milar at Dulwich Picture House, Exceptional Faults at APT Gallery Deptford.

Prizes include the Dupree Family Award for Best Female Artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2018 and the Moth Art Prize Ireland 2020. Public and private collections include Magasin3 Stockholm, Damien Hirst, Worcester College, Oxford and the Labour Party. Her most recent solo presentation was at Saskia Neuman Gallery Stockholm in October 2024.