Through experiential shifting paintings Tabitha explores sound, motion and resonance. Her practice navigates the physicality of perception while demonstrating distance between what is fixed and assumed. The surface refracts light, creating a relationship that is deeply relational, this has a metronomic effect as it washes in and out of sight. The paintings reach outside of their medium, pivoting to an engagement that is temporal and spatial. Visible brushstrokes hold thousands of lines, acting as duration suspended on the canvas. What emerges is the sonic landscape of painting and the pulsating moments that can be conjured through line, light and colour. The viewer is kept in movement with the work as the light is caught momentarily on different parts of the surface. Through dense layering of colours to create depth and undefinable moments, uncertainty emerges, as the viewer questions whether it is light that is being reflected or the paint underneath. Playing with the proximity of the impenetrable, something that is almost grasped each time, this back and forth has a rhythmic sensation. The work takes the viewer into an embodied sense of feeling: Reflecting on refraction. To satellite and to set alight. To highlight. Spotlight. Club light. Shadow. Shapeshifting. Strobing. To seek reverberation. 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 is currently on the Fitzrovia Quarter artist residency that will culminate with a group exhibition in October.
Education
Royal College of Art, London - MA Painting 2025
Wimbledon College of Art, London - BA Fine Art Painting
Selected Group Shows
Upcoming
What Holds Us Together, Fitzrovia Quarter Artist Residency 19 - 25 October, Radiant House, W1W 7RG, London
Past
2026 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 16 June - 23 August, London
2026 As We Align, 27 May - 01 June, Great Pulteney Street Gallery, London. Curated by MaTa Art Collective.
2026 Wicked Painting, 13 March - 18 April, Hypha Gallery 3, No 1 Poultry, London. Curated by Harriet Horner.
2026 _art_list_ , 29 January - 07 February, Geneva.
2025 Vibration, 3 - 7 December, The Gallery, London. Curated by Tabitha Wilson and Libby Hoffenberg.
2025 _art_list_ , 16 - 18 September, Geneva.
2025 Royal College of Art Graduate Show, 19 - 22 June, London.
2025 Two Sides of the Same Coin, 21 - 30 March, Lewisham Arthouse, London. Curated by Madi Young.
2025 Works on Paper, 21 March, Painting Building, Royal College of Art, London. Curated by Dinka Leonova.
2025 Rejection: When No Said Yes, 4 - 7 March, Hangar Gallery, Royal College of Art, London. Curated by Noor Albar, Marjolaine Delsupexhe Cesarini, and Sejal Dalvi.
2024 Qualia, 18 - 20 April, AMP Gallery, London. Curated by Alice Campos.