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The Birth Of Aphrodite
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The Birth of Aphrodite
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The Dragon Kills The Woman And She Kills it
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The Heavenly Rose
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Death Blowing the Worm Trumpet
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Baptism with Lunar Water while being bitten by Dragons
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The King and Queen in the bath
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The Dragon Kills the Woman and She Kills It
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels
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The Fire Sowers
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Grain Growing from the Corpse of Osiris
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The King and Queen in the bath
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The Fire Sowers
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Skin Series 1
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Skin Series 7
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Skin Series 8
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Skin Series 9
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Skin Series 10
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Skin Series 12
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Skin Series 14
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Skin Series 15
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Skin Series 16
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Chorus Girls II
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Chorus Girls III
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Swimmers 01
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Swimmers 02
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Swimmers 05
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Swimmers 06
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Ululu
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Swimmers 07
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Overpainting
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Twisk
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Marilyn and Star
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Planogram IV
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De Kat
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Airplane
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Abstract
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Box
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Boy Doing Handstand
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Cowboy
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Desk with Books
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Executed Man
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Ink Portrait
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Qwagga
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Fran
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Precious
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Barbara
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Lettie
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Claire
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Emma
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Jane
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Joyce
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Liz
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Pamela
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Polly
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Rose
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Sally
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Suzie
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Tammy
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Tandy
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Trish
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Wendy
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Zodwa
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Janice
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Kathy
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Lorraine
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The Fire of the Dragon being both fanned and Extinguished
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Schismatics
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Siren
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Expulsion of the Demons
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Sow your Gold in White Earth
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Ascension
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Autobiography as Mandala
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Death's Head Points to the Cosmic Sphere
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Star Trails
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Sublimatio II
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The Mercurial Serpent Crucified
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Sublimatio I
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Untitled (Face) Gridhead - Full set
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Joust Between Sol and Luna
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Massacre of the Innocents
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Hibernaculum
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Skin Series 13
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Child on Crescent Moon
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I Knew You In This Dark
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Swimmers 08
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Swimmers 09
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The Flood
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The Violent Tortured in a Rain of Fire
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Swimmers 04
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Familiar
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The separation of Heaven and Earth
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The King in the Sweatbox
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Baptism with Lunar water while being bitten by Dragons
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Skin Series
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(Wax Painting)
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Hylas and the Nymphs
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Macrocosm and Microcosm Interconnected
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Calcinatio of an Earth-Animal
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Planogram
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Eagle Chained to a Ground Animal
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Cerberus as the Devouring and Entangling Aspect of the Prima Materia
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Jessica Webster was born in Johannesburg in 1981 and grew up near the mines of Durban Deep in Roodepoort, before relocating to Benoni. Webster obtained her BA degree in Fine Arts from the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town, where she was awarded the Judy Stein Painting Award in 2005. The artist completed her Masters of Fine Art and embarked on her PhD in 2011.
Webster’s debut exhibition I Knew You in this Dark opened at David Krut Projects in July 2009. She was also one of the artists that participated in the group show DKW Monotype Project at the DKW gallery in October 2010. Webster’s second solo exhibition called Original Skin ran throughout the month of April 2011 at David Krut Projects, Johannesburg. After completing a residency at NIROX Foundation later in 2011, she was invited to exhibit at NIROX Projects at Arts on Main in 2012. The exhibition is called Mainly Benoni. And Paintings.
Webster describes her earlier body of work as being based on a material and theoretical investigation and understanding of the concept of “trauma”, specifically drawing on theorist Mark Selzer’s theory of trauma as a “border concept”. Webster writes:
I see my work as a form of visualising Selzer’s concept, the“borderland” analogous to the tension between materiality and iconography primarily but also between form and formlessness, figure and ground, and surface and depth.
Thus, Webster’s works aim to explore not only the “affective relationship” between what she refers to as the “psychic symbolism” of traumatic experience and the inner realm of mind and fantasy on the one hand, and the outer world of reality and physicality on the other, but also the psychological “borderland” between the two. Her current work continues to investigate the ways in which painting exists in two states simultaneously yet with more emphasis on the immediate spontaneity of the act of painting and the paint’s direct relationship with the surface of the artwork.
For more information, visit her website: www.jessicawebster.co.za