User:George Hall Artist

George Hall is a Sydney based artist working in acrylics, oils and mixed media. His art draws inspiration from nature, the landscape of his native New Zealand, and urban life, taking from reality rather than trying directly to express it. There is a strong preference for expression in large scale, but he has also produced work in smaller formats.

Hall moved from Christchurch, NZ to Sydney in 1994. For 20 years in Sydney he worked as a designer in textiles, experience that shows in his work with colour and tone, form and design. He has drawn on the use of digital techniques for design in textiles to open a rich, fresh mode of articulation in his art. In 2015 he started painting his climate inspired acrylic works and making associated limited edition prints, as well as producing and showing his art on social media. Hall has a gallery and workshop in Kings Cross, Sydney..

Early Life George Hall was born in 1961 in Christchurch New Zealand, the youngest of four children and the only son of John Michael Dryden Hall and Wendy Ellen Hall. His father John was an architect, illustrator and painter. He lived in Christchurch in his early years, and for two years in Fiji from the age of 7 to 10. He attended Christ College School (1975-78), and Burnside High School in his last year, to study art. He has three sisters who live in New Zealand and Australia.

Hall studied Fashion Design and Technology at Wellington Polytechnic (1981-1983). He founded with Claire Croskery the fashion label ‘Carnivore Clothing’ at the height of the eighties New Romantic¬-New Wave, selling to high end avant-garde fashion retail outlets in New Zealand. A zeal for creating unusual design began with the pair’s work dying and printing fabric, compensating for a limited range of textiles available in New Zealand at that time.

At the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Hall lived in Christchurch with his partner Robin Ellis. Christchurch was a relatively safe haven from the horror and prejudice of the time. There he also used pastel drawings to guide interior design projects, lectured at the Christchurch Polytechnic, and pursued a career in fashion design. . Hall lives alone in Sydney in close contact with his teenage daughter and sister.