JESSICA WARBOYS

b. 1977, Newport, Wales

Lives and works between London and Paris

 

Up-and-coming artist Jessica Warboys utilises a range of media within her practise including film, scultpure, painting and performance, and is known for her vivid, nature-inspired paintings. Lots of emerging artists are engaging Mother Nature in their practices—few to more potent effect than Warboys. To create her coveted “sea paintings”, she applies raw pigment to damp folded canvases and submerges them along the shore, producing vivid swaths that echo the water’s ebb and flow - an action which itself is closely linked to performance. Resonating strongly with the Western tradition of landscape painting, from Turner to Twombly, these large-scale paintings exist at the crossroads of ritual, performance and artistic process, three important elements driving this young artist’s work.

 

Hung or suspended, engulfing or opening the space, Warboys chooses not to stretch the canvas, maintaining a continuous and open-ended relationship with the space is occupies.

 

She was selected for Artists Film International, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 2013, and participated in dOCUMENTA 13, 2012. Further afield she participated in 9ª Bienal do Mercosul Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2013 and more recently she has exhibited 1857, Oslo, 2015 and Kunstverein, Amsterdam, 2016. Her work was showed in the Tate St Ives March 31 - September 3, 2017 and British Art Show 8, 2016 at various venues across the UK.

 

Others solo exhibitions include; CRAC Alsace, curated by Elfi Turpin(2024), Casa da Cerca Art Center, Almada, Portugal curated by Filipa Oliveira(2024), “Hill of Dreams”, Tate St Ives (2017), “Topo Scenic” Kunsthall Stavanger (2016),  Hill of Dreams, film screening, Tate Britain, London (2016), “Angle Pose” Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2016), “Glade M” – Museum Leuven, Leuven (2015) “A painting cycle” at Nomas Foundation, Rome (2012), “Victory Park Tree Painting” at Cell Project Space, London (2011) and “Land & Sea” at Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (2011).

 

Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany (2012) and Camera Britannica at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2012).