Bio

Fritha Jenkins is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in London. Their practice combines performance, ceramics, video, sculpture, installation, sound and movement. Performances and exhibitions include work shown with ArtHouses Whitley Bay, on the Thames river foreshore, at Artsadmin, on their kitchen table, at Guest Projects, Chisenhale Dance space, in a transit van, at Modern Art Oxford and at Supernormal festival. 

Artist Statement 

Work is relational and emerges in conversation with situations, people, environments and materials; washing up bowls, quarries, frozen bathwater, friends, dripping wastewaters, rocks, cats, ovens. My practice stumbles around intersections of domesticity, care, feminism, queerness, land/waterscapes and neurodivergent thinking. I utilise improvisation, humour and gesture in the layering of multisensory work. Churning up materials, landscapes, archives, and narratives I stumble around and through messy explorations of alternative ecologies. 

Why MW is important:

I’m a late diagnosed Autistic artist and it’s been wonderful to discover what you’re doing with magical women – thank you!