Paintings that wade, referential waves, reflecting on refraction. To satellite and to set alight. To highlight. Spotlight. Club light. Shadow. Shapeshifting, strobing. To seek reverberation, to think about what resonates. The open field of language and painting becoming terrain. The painting being able to carry the in between, and the release, of the painting carrying it for you. The rhythm of the paint only shown properly through moving around it, in front of it, to play with it, to dance. Teasing the interstitial hinge of grey. How to make a painting ring out? How to wring out a painting? Seeking moments of fullness to hold onto things that feel real and ring true. The spatial aspect of sound; and the spatial aspect of painting. Forms of belonging connected, intersected and reflected. Lingering affections. 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 will be graduating from the Royal College of Art’s Painting MA programme in August ‘25, 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
Royal College of Art Graduate Show 19 - 22 June 2025
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.