Twice As Tall In The Rain

George Richardson

26 April - 30 May, 2025

When you first encounter an object and have space to think, you and that object are inconsequential to one another, existing in parallel lives. Through sharing space, the object remains still—whilst you change.

Twice As Tall In The Rain unfolds within an ambiguous timeframe, with Victorian windows suspended above modern carpet, a 1930s bowler hat set in self-levelling concrete used in new-build homes, and umbrellas cast in Pears soap. Working with sculptural interventions to re-contextualise the everyday, Richarson creates a re-imagined domestic space where the familiar becomes uncanny. He believes there are no neutral decisions in sculpture, and uses the associations of material and form to create playful, curious connections.

A bowed hat stand and carved wooden curtains occupy the upper floor. They act as transitional objects—a term Richardson uses to describe conduit items. Downstairs, a corridor installation symbolises the boundary between public and private space, an un-resolved, transitional state of being in-between where bodies usually pass through. Richardson is guided by Donna Harroway’s ‘Situated Knowledges’ as a key conceptual toolkit to locate the context and histories of these objects. He imagines something ‘resonates’ when there is a point of connection between a person’s lived experience and an object. Often this resonation is strongest when the source of the connection is difficult to find.

The exhibition is a material investigation that supports Richardson’s intentions and curiosities around experiencing sculpture in person. A permanently grey concrete window titled It’s Not The Grey That Hurts, It’s Wishing For Blue references the all too familiar sight of waking to a grey London sky, while also reflecting on longing, desire, and the wish for change.

George Richardson (b. 1998) lives and works in London. He completed his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2023, becoming artist in residence at Sarabande Foundation for which he received the Sarabande Emerging Artist Grant (2023-2024). He has recently been re-awarded the Sarabande Foundation Artist Residency for 2024-2025. Richardson’s work was included in a duo show at Flexitron Gallery, London, in collaboration with Pipeline, London (2023). His work has been included in a number of group shows, including The Hari Art Prize, London (2024); Hypha Studios, London (2024); Sarabande Foundation, London (2024); Alice Black Gallery, London (2024); OHSH Projects, London (2024); Max Radford Gallery, London (2023); Crypt Gallery, London (2023); ACME Glassyard, London (2023); UCL Museum, London (2023); Lethaby Gallery, London (2021).

Special thanks to Ryan Taylor who supported the artist in this exhibition and The Fenton Arts Trust.

Richardson would also like to thank, Juliet Dodson, Charlie Ford, Trino Verkade and all of the team at Sarabande Foundation, The Nichol Young Trust, Steve Steinhardt, Al Jackson, Sam Meredith, Isabella Furness, Ricardo Monteiro, Ella Shevchenko Knight, Ferghus Doyle, Daniel Rey, Alistair Waterfield, Nicola Dodson, Janet Churcher, for their generous support in the making of this exhibition.