Jessica Webster

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Candy Crush no.3, (Ice Cream and Black Vines)

2020 Oil and encaustic on jute canvas Work: 160 x 210 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Candy Crush no.113, (Bubbles and Jungle Scene)

2020 Oil and encaustic on jute canvas

Crystal Chambers no.3, (Swimmer under White Plume)

2020 Oil and encaustic on jute canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Untitled: Camilla

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Crystal Chambers no.4, (Orange Rushes, Golden Island)

2020 Oil and encaustic on jute canvas

Crystal chambers no. 9 (Horseman as title-figure)

2020 Oil paint and wax on jute canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Crystal Chambers no. 20 (Blue-candy landscape)

2020 Oil paint and wax on jute canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Candycrush no 33 (Cloud Burst)

2020 Oil paint and wax on jute canvas

Crystal Chambers no.7, (Island and Viridian Boatsman)

2020 Oil and encaustic on jute canvas

Forty Creek Caesar

2019 Mixed media on jute canvas Work: 98 x 126 x 5 cm

Bouquet

2020 Oil paint and wax on black linen Available on Request Add to My Selection

Over/under expensive objects (Bird and Jewels)

2019 Mixed media on sheer black linen Work: 50 x 50 x 7.5 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Just a Perfect Day

Oil paint and wax on black linen Available on Request Add to My Selection

Lemonade Gymnasium (Bosch, man on fish)

2020 Mixed media on Fabriano paper

Lemonade Gymnasium (Anemone and Swirls)

2020 Mixed media on Fabriano paper Available on Request Add to My Selection

Lemonade Gymnasium (Sitting Bear)

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Untitled: Alexandra - diptych

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Work: 150 x 181 x 5 cm

Untitled: Stella (triptych)

2017 Mixed media on canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Untitled: Bobby

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Untitled: Mia

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Work: 280 x 130 x 8 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Where to my lovely

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Work (each): 34 x 35 cm Available on Request Add to My Selection

Untitled: Emily

2017 Wax and oil on canvas Available on Request Add to My Selection

Untitled: Sophie

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Throw of the Dice

2020 Oil paint and wax on satin Available on Request Add to My Selection

About

Jessica Webster (b. 1981, South Africa) is a conceptual painter whose work is complex in range of theme and materiality. From her first solo show I knew you in this dark at David Krut Projects in 2009, through to her solo shows at Goodman Gallery Murderer (2015) and Wisteria (2017), Webster has pursued ideas about traumatic memory and the human predicament for sense-making as having a defamiliarising effect on the almost mundane visual realities of daily experience.

Webster’s philosophical approach to painting originated in her PhD in Philosophy (Wits, 2017). Her research was co-supervised by artist Penny Siopis, whose lasting mentorship of Webster led to the development of a close analysis of Siopis’s practice regarding trauma, objecthood, and the embodied "sexuality’’ of the painted surface. Webster’s ideas address painting as re-articulations of psycho-somatic events which reveals painting at its most robust: where it lays bare the aesthetic ideals of the enlightenment project as traumatic.

Webster’s current painting (2018-2020) exerts itself as a detachment from the traumatic underpinnings of that thesis towards a new experiment with lightness and irony. But for Webster, the theme of each body of work lies adjacent to achieving the unresolvable power that painting has to deeply move the individual and collective. In that way, painting plays a quiet yet containing social role in the arts and for the public. Her work is held in private and public institutions locally and internationally and has been reviewed by critical authors such as Amie Soudien, Same Mdluli and Dave Mann.

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Jessica Webster 'A Horse with No Name'

July 2020

Jessica Webster in Conversation with Matthew Krouse / Murderer

March 2019

Exhibitions

Jessica Webster | A Horse With No Name

04 July - 01 August 2020

Jessica Webster / Wisteria / 2017

22 April - 03 June 2017

Summer Show / 2016

15 December - 14 January 2017

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News

Jessica Webster curates Turbine Art Fair graduate show

Posted 12 July 2017

Press

Art Throb: Process & Tension in Jessica Webster's 'A Horse With No Name'

Art Throb: Painting, digital imagery and text, Jessica Webster's 'Murderer'

Art Throb: The Sanctuary Disturbed, Jessica Webster's 'Wisteria'

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