ABOUT

Jessica Naylor’s current practice focuses on mark-making, surface, and trace, explored through a multidisciplinary approach to sculpture and printmaking. A fundamental aspect of Naylor’s process involves collecting natural found objects from environments where humans interact with the landscape. She uses these objects to question the complex relationship between humans and nature, highlighting our disconnection from the environment. The collected items are transformed into printing plates and blocks, which examine the boundaries of printmaking by challenging the two-dimensionality of the medium.

Intrigued by the role of the body in the printing process, Naylor substitutes the printing press with the contact and pressure of her own body. Her installations enhance aspects of the natural world by compelling viewers to engage with the delicate mark-making and intricate textures found in the environment. Currently, she is experimenting with the arrangement of her objects in a museum-style installation, presenting her works as artifacts and objects of historical value. By uniting the historically isolated subjects of printmaking, nature, and women’s bodies, Naylor aims to create an inclusive platform for practices and groups historically excluded from the narrative of Western art history. Naylor’s process of creating impressions invites us to connect with the absent spaces where a subject is missing yet holds a presence in the trace left behind.