Jennifer Mawby
Jennifer Tazewell Mawby works with invented narrative cycles and across drawing and painting, sculptural, and video/sound installation. Projects may continue for many years and be added upon in the way a writer or a filmmaker may release a sequel or a prequel to an original blockbuster. Within her story lines, the character-driven and predominately figurative works are idiosyncratic and often humorous with the characters’ worlds composited from history, literature, science fiction, and archeology.
Like a fairy tale, 2022, Ink and gauche on paper, 11 x 15 in
Listening Tablet I with copper chain ornamentation, 2021, Winterstone with drawing media.
Kasha Hen Study, 2022, Cassein on paper, 15 x 11 in
Waif, 2020, Plaster sculpture with drawing media (graphite, pastel, pencil, crayon)
Jennifer holds an honours Masters of Fine Art jointly awarded by OCA and University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the U.K. She received her BA Classical Studies from the University of British Columbia, completed the Management Skills for Advanced Technology (MSAT) program at Simon Fraser University, and the Fine Art Techniques Certificate at Emily Carr University of Art and Design (both in Vancouver).
She has participated in the 2018-2020 Turps Banana correspondence painting program (London, UK), studied with The Royal Drawing School(London, UK), and The New Art School‘s global program (London, UK) with mentor Paul Becker. Jennifer is an enthusiastic member of the New York City Crit Club and is the James Bernard Haggarty 2023 scholarship awardee for the inaugural Canopy Program mentorship with artist Michael Berryhill. She is also completing the 2022-2023 Node Center International Curatorial Program (Berlin, Germany). In 2022 Jennifer co-founded P2P Curatorial, a curatorial collective of artists based in Canada and the United States.
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