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Jessica Watts

Date of birth 21.Jul.82
Place of birth Sharjah
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact +447812017808

Drawing with oil paint directly onto paper or gessoed canvases on the floor I am occupied by the idea of oil paint as a message medium in itself. I wish to ask carefully planned questions and create controlled triggers for the imagination. Banal objects grab my attention from magazines and newspapers. Ideas are thrown up when I mistake something familiar for something extraordinary. That is why I paint things, things I see, not that are there. I draw it, making it mine, moving it away from its original function and towards something discovered through drawing.
Drawing with paint in my practice is about the immediacy of thought to image and subsequently about the unforced elegance of line. Line is integral to my practice, I try not to allow it to finish. I enjoy symmetry, infinity, continuity -things that balance – just for that moment. The drawing, the line separates the image slowly from it’s original context, and through exploration it develops into a new creation. Fact and fiction collide as I aim to liberate existing images from their original intent and via a discussion with paint on the surface establish a new fascination with the image.
I wish to show life forms and for them to have an impatience to be looked at. Against a black or white backdrop I want them to be movie stars snapped by the camera flash, or like deep-sea creatures caught for a fleeting moment as I turn the torch on and then off again.

She lives and works in UK. Studied at The University of Newcastle - BA Honours Fine Art; awarded 2:1 (2001- 2005) and at The University of Gloucestershire, Art & Design Diploma in Foundation studies DISTINCTION (2000- 2001).

Select group exhibitions:
Disposable Fetish, Nunnery Gallery, London, January 2007
Annuale, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, September 2006
Coals, Nolias Gallery, London, April 2006
‘Normalife Unlimited’, Art at Carnaby, 6 Neal’s Yard, London January 2006
3rd Drawing Biennale, Polish Art Foundation, Victoria, Australia, January 2006
‘Space’ Motor City, Sunderland, Nov 2005
Field of Vision, Institute for New Media, Frankfurt, Germany, October 2005
The Flag Project, 254 Bethnal Green, London, September 2005

Residency/Awards:
September – November 2005: Artist in Residence in Sunderland, coordinated by Rednile projects.
LifeWorkArt Graduate Award, University of Newcastle 2005

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects


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