To create her coveted “sea painting”, Jessica Warboys 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, this large-scale painting exists 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.