Frances Waite @ Cob Gallery

In her exhibition Hot Water, Frances Waite explores the domestic bathroom setting as the backdrop for a new suite of drawings, exposing the ambiguities of this secluded space and private activity. It is this environment, traditionally associated with cleansing and ritualistic purification, that becomes fertile ground for her main conceptual concerns: the stage on which scenes of pleasure and pain can take place. Waite depicts her cast of bathers – in pairs or in solitude, unapologetic and hyper-sexed – performing for the viewer as much as for themselves, whilst cut adrift and revelling in their own eroticised fantasy worlds.