Jesse Watson attended Auckland
University of Technology, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of
Visual Arts. Watson majored in Painting and received the
University's Main Art Scholarship Award that year. He spent the
next year in Melbourne, painting and producing commissioned pieces
for Interior Art Australia, before returning to New Zealand in 2004
to continue his career as an artist. Watson was nominated as a
finalist in the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Wallace Art Awards. He
currently resides in London.
Watson defines his work as a 'soundscape' of information,
involving the interpretation of sound and silence from both aural
and visual sources. The use of repetitive patterns found in music,
architecture, technology, and nature are gathered together and
translated into a composed track of 'visual noise'. Canvases are
often sewn together in a manner of overlapping impulses 'run
together'. The combination of materials can be seen as successions
of moments in time; energy, life and movement translated through a
beat or repetitive sound and represented across the frame of the
canvas.