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Cob Gallery presents Hot Water, the UK debut solo exhibition of American artist Frances Waite, and the second to feature in the gallery’s 10-year anniversary programme.

Waite's graphite drawings are characterised by confrontational voyeurism, often weaponised by the artist to dissemble patriarchal structures. Depicting transgressive behaviour in startling verisimilitude, Waite constructs ‘near-truth’ alternate realities that scrutinise human anxieties.

Despite the appearance of being suspended in fantasy, Waite confesses that her works are somewhat rooted in the autobiographical – …