Tina Jenkins

Who is painting? And why does it holler so? How does it operate? And who hears its call?

Something hangs between us on the outside of painting, some thing that is both of painting and beyond it. It hangs in the interval between all that it is and all that it is not, between the finite and the infinite and emerges from the already determined historical context of painting that always prefigures itself. This is the subject of desire that emerges from past incarnations, is situated in the present and continually opens out onto an elsewhere.

This something, this subjectivity desire or excess is not a universal given. It manifests and situates itself at the site of each and every painting anew. Gesture, medium, support and tools are all protagonists here; there is no singular truth to be defined only a multitude of convoluted relationships in continuous motion.

Navigating this painterly terrain has become an increasingly complex process as painting continues to structure and critique itself around that which is already inscribed in its psyche and yet continues to desire that which has yet to be defined.

It is this contradiction within the place of painting that interests me and drives my practice forward. The subjective spac...

University of Reading - Phd 2014 Ongoing

Threadneedle Prize 2014
Mall Galleries
The Mall
London

25 September - !! October 2014

The 2014 Threadneedle Prize is shaping up to be the most successful ever! Championing the most exciting figurative art produced in the UK and Europe today, the Prize offers the winning artist a cash award of £20,000, plus the winner’s own exhibition at Mall Galleries in 2015.