ABOUT

Jessica Naylor is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice currently utilises sculptural and printmaking techniques to create minimal installations. Her work explores the liminal space between absence and presence, investigating sculptural spaces within marks where an object retains a presence through its trace. A fundamental aspect of Naylor’s process involves collecting natural found materials from outdoor 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 become sculptural matrices to challenge the two-dimensionality of printmaking. Intrigued by the role of the body in the printing process, Naylor uses the contact and pressure of her body to capture impressions from nature and produce printing matrices. Using organic found objects, the artist focuses on the process that allows unpredictable natural occurrences to alter the outcome of her sculptures.

The artist’s installations enhance aspects of the natural world, encouraging viewers to engage with the delicate mark-making and intricate surfaces found in nature. Naylor unites the historically excluded subjects of printmaking and nature in her sculptural installations. This establishes an inclusive platform for previously subjugated areas to come together through a research-led approach to practice.