A Frances Waite is an instance of high theatre, and the first curtain lifted is the one exposing her. Her work’s voyeuristic flavour can easily be misread, but this voyeurism is self-reflexive. It refers to the artist’s experience of herself as surveilled, her sense of inhabiting a panopticon, a result of the particular technologico-historical moment in which she grew up. She is preoccupied with what she calls “the bedside table”, the banality of everyday domestic reality, and takes an author’s approach to image-making: creating a scene, placing her characters inside it, and instigating a dynamic. In this way her drawing has something in common with her stage design practice, the two allowing her to work along the full spectrum of scale.

In other words, Frances Waite is a multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, stage design, and whatever else takes her interest.

Clients include Playboy, Office Magazine, Exit Magazine, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Saturday Night Live. Her work has been exhibited at Cob Gallery and by David Zwirner.