Jennifer Tazewell Mawby examines how images and objects come to feel credible, and how that credibility shapes what we trust. Working across sculpture, ceramics, drawing, tapestry, and digital processes, she builds structured forms that explore how meaning takes hold over time. Drawing from historical archives and systems of preservation, she considers how objects come to carry authority.
Her process unfolds in cycles. Language produces images. Images become objects. Objects return to digital systems. At each stage, hand intervention reshapes the outcome, creating an ongoing exchange between machine logic and material translation.
Her work feels controlled, but not completely at ease. Forms become recognizable at times as bodies, landscapes, or infrastructures, while resisting full resolution. Recognition stabilizes, but not entirely.
In installation, each work operates independently, yet together they form a larger perceptual field whose meaning develops through proximity and tension. Through repetition and variation, forms accrue authority. The work traces how perception becomes belief. At a time when images and objects circulate, multiply, and detach from fixed authorship, her work confronts how they still come to feel true.
Mawby’s work has been exhibited and published internationally, including in Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She holds an MA in Fine Art from OCA/UCA (U.K.) and a BA in Classical Studies from the University of British Columbia, and completed curatorial training with the Node Center (Berlin). She is the founder and director of Vantage Art Projects.