Tabitha Hall

Tabitha Hall is an English artist based in Glasgow graduating from GSA’s Painting&Printmaking. Tabitha advocates for drawing as a finalised art form, not just a means to an end. Embracing the method of drawing to convey minimal and gestural qualities. Within the act of making a mark, she explores the body and its relationship to the constructed space it inhabits, letting the forms not be constricted to conventional representations of the body. It is rather the process of drawing that leads the works in an attempt to let the inhabited figures create their environments. In this vein, her work tends to embrace a limited colour palette adhering to a black and white monochrome, the contrast allows the body to remain the nucleus.
These drawings and ink works investigate the presence of the figure throughout art and mythological history, whilst embracing a more inclusive approach to the idea of femininity in contemporary society. The content of the work can range from the day to day, pure fantasy to literary, its source isn’t crucial to its reading merely a step in the work’s creation. By including the figure so prominently in her work she questions what an observers relationship to them is, do they seeing a representation of themselves or are they a passive observer, watching from just outside the frame.