Jess Swaryczewska
Jessica Swaryczewska’s work presents a warped perspective of a textural sensation. She creates sculptures moulded to the wall using various textural surfaces. By touching the textures, she wants to make the audience feel uncomfortable.
Swaryczewska incorporates everyday scrap materials, sewing them together to create a deformed, tapestry-like sculpture cascading off the walls. For example, how El Anatsui and Andrew Omoding use the same techniques of stitching found materials together.
She has used a limited colour palette of black, white and blue to emphasise the textural pieces of the sculpture and focus on the sensation you feel once touching the artwork.
In everyday life, and as an artist, Swaryczewska has always struggled with sensory issues, whether it’s the fabric used for clothing or the food she is eating. She is interested in the reasoning behind these reactions and why each person has a different reaction when touching surfaces, the textures of food and even the colours of their surroundings.
‘Sensitive’
Ceramics, paint and charcoal on canvas
2025
Installation
Jessica's work presents a warped perspective of a textural sensation. She creates sculptures molded to and cascading off the wall using scrap materials, paint and self-made pastes. She has continued to create a physical sculpture influenced by the wall mounted sculptures, creating a cave like piece placed on the floor combined with various fabric materials to create a juxtaposition between the items. This being similar to the sensational cringe feeling you receive once touching a texture unusual to what you usually feel. The sensational, tingling feeling you get when you cringe from the texture of an object or food you dislike, and how it travels through your entire body. The paths of material travelling through the ceramics represents this inner sensation travelling through the body. The charcoal and paint across the canvases creates a journey of how each part of your body is affected by a simple touch of an unusual texture. Jessica wants to make the audience understand and be impacted by these textures from sight and not just by touch.
