About this artwork

’How The Spider Builds Her Web’ by Kirstie Tebbs, is a collage from an abstract brown and black ink painting with hints of gold and silver acrylic highlights and a spiders web drawn on top. The way the web is drawn in an imperfect web pattern is based upon how a spider builds her web when under the influence of caffeine- a substance in which I consume in copious amounts every daily. It makes me wonder that if caffeine has this effect upon the spiders ability to build a web, then what effect does it have upon me and how I create? I allowed the ink and acrylic to choose how they interacted on the paper with water and form their own intricate shapes and patterns. The end result was a type of cosmic image which I cut up and collaged together to create a multi-perspective of the spiders web.

About Kirstie

Kirstie Tebbs, is an emerging UK- based multi-disciplinary artist inquiring into the notions of ’being’. She explores the philosophical ideas of presence, time and substance, aiming to showcase these ideas in an interactive space through perception, the infinite, absence, and presence. We all live in our own realities and no two realities are the same, and so by working between primarily sculpture, installation and drawing, Tebbs uses the jumping between two and three dimensions to understand the reality she lives in. This process allows her to see her reality through different perspectives. This then allows her practice to become an ever-evolving project. By dealing with abstract notions, Tebbs’ practice is primarily abstract in nature, focusing on the combination of science and art. Tebbs is published in ’Artists Responding To… The Postcard Project’ (2020). Founder and owner of Tebbs Gallery and currently studying Ma Fine Art at University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Link to Kirstie’s Art Aviso profile HERE

Kirstie was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:

Volume 3
The marvels of insect life.
How the spider builds her web