Jessica Webster

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...

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Cross-Currents – Jessica Webster writes on The Sea
Jul. 26, 2012

I have always had some misgivings about the sea. These misgivings are more or less the same when someone speaks...

Tags: David Krut Projects Cape Town, Exhibition
Cross-Currents, 31 July – 25 August 2012
Jul. 20, 2012

Cross-Currents, showing at David Krut Projects Cape Town from 31 July – 25 August 2012, presents a selection of works...

David Krut Projects Cape Town – Cross-Currents, 31 July – 25 August
Jun. 23, 2012

Cross-Currents, showing at David Krut Projects Cape Town from 31 July – 25 August 2012, presents a selection of works...

Tags: David Krut Projects Cape Town, Exhibition
Jessica Webster Walkabout at NIROX Projects
Jan. 25, 2012

Please join us for a walkabout and question & answer session with the artist as Jessica Webster takes us through...

Tags: Arts on Main, Jessica Webster, Nirox Projects, Raphael Klatzo, walkabout
Jessica Webster Walkabout at NIROX Projects, Johannesburg
Jan. 20, 2012

Jessica Webster will conduct a walkabout and question & answer session about her latest body of work on the exhibition Mainly...

Mainly Benoni. And Paintings: an exhibition by Jessica Webster at NIROX Projects
Jan. 10, 2012

Following her 2011 residency at the Nirox Foundation, Webster presents her latest body of work, which continues to investigate the...

Tags: Arts on Main, David Krut Projects, Exhibition, Jessica Webster, Nirox Projects
David Krut Projects at Joburg Art Fair 2011
Sep. 17, 2011

David Krut Projects will be showcasing work by Bruce Backhouse, Gail Behrmann, Deborah Bell, Bronwen Findlay, Claire Gavronsky, Joseph Hart, Stephen...

Tags: First Cut, Johannesburg Art Fair 2011
IMPRINT: Selected Editions and Works on Paper, Installation Images
Jul. 20, 2011

David Krut Projects is pleased to present IMPRINT, a selection of editions and works on paper by local and international...

A look at Jessica Webster’s “Original Skin”
Apr. 30, 2011

Throughout the month of April 2011 Jessica Webster’s second solo exhibition titled Original Skin was on display at the David...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Johannesburg, Monotype
Jessica Webster – Artist’s Talk on 16th April 2011
Apr. 20, 2011

Despite to the sudden cold snap and rainy weather, there was a good turnout for Jessica Webster’s artist talk for...

Tags: David Krut Projects, Jessica Webster, Rose Deary
Artist Walkabout with Jessica Webster at DKP this Saturday
Apr. 13, 2011

Please join us for a walkabout with Jessica Webster on Saturday 16 April, 12 noon, as she speaks about her...

Tags: David Krut Projects, Jessica Webster, walkabout
Jessica Webster plans skin prints
Aug. 5, 2010

Jess arrived feeling slightly ill today, everyone seems to have been hit with influenza this winter.  She insisted that she...

Last of Diane Victor’s Birth of a Nation prints
Aug. 3, 2010

This day will be remembered for a personal milestone having been reached.  There were no elaborate celebrations when I finished...

Stompie Selibe & Jessica Webster at DKW
Jul. 23, 2010

Niall Bingham resumed work on a series of montypes with Stompie Selibe (see below). Jessica Webster was observing the monotype...

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