Through experiential shifting paintings Tabitha explores sound, motion and resonance. The work ruminates in states of change, finding openness and potential through movement, simultaneity and the cyclical. Questions of taking the sea from its water to its abstractness and using this as a framework for the discourse of painting, writing, installation and sound. The paintings circulate slips and glints at infinity, loops and the unknown. Her work is situated amongst authors that use rhythm, repetition, sound, light, shade and states of change in their practice. Tabitha’s paintings linger on our inability to hold onto our experience with things and the concurrent feeling of closeness momentarily sustained through these events, vast shifting paintings call into question where you stand with the work. Her approach evokes the sensations of the infinite, techniques and usages of medium hold luminous and changeable visual effects offering intangible sensations beyond the visual. Operating in experiential zones of significance the paintings reach outside of their medium, pivoting to engagement that is temporal and spatial. The physicality of the work bounces between the encounter with the viewer, the rhythm of the paint only realised through moving around it, in front of it, to play with it, to dance. Reflecting on refraction. To satellite and to set alight. To highlight. Spotlight. Club light. Shadow. Shapeshifting. Strobing. To seek reverberation. Being drawn. Into sand and sea. Of wind and waves. The terrain extends, expands, collapses, re-emerges.
Tabitha Wilson lives and works in London. She recently graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, prior to this she completed her BA in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, UAL. She has exhibited nationally, most recently at Lewisham Arthouse.
Education
Royal College of Art, London - MA Painting 2025
Wimbledon College of Art, London - BA Fine Art Painting
Selected Group Shows
_art_list_ , 16 - 18 September 2025, Geneva.
Royal College of Art Graduate Show, 19 - 22 June 2025, London.
Two Sides of the Same Coin, 21 - 30 March 2025, Lewisham Arthouse, London. Curated by Madi Young.
Works on Paper, 21 March 2025, Painting Building, Royal College of Art, London. Curated by Dinka Leonova.
Rejection: When No Said Yes, 4 - 7 March 2025, Hangar Gallery, Royal College of Art, London. Curated by Noor Albar, Marjolaine Delsupexhe Cesarini, and Sejal Dalvi.
Qualia, 18 - 20 April 2024, AMP Gallery, London. Curated by Alice Campos.