Joel Wyllie: Etched Cell

Joel Wyllie's first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Joel Wyllie's drawings are characterised by networks of lines and marks that teem, swarm and coalesce into volatile, anthropomorphic forms. The myriad gestures he builds across the surface seem to grow organically from the paper itself, evoking the intricate geometry of the natural world, from the shimmer of fish scales to the layered textures of feathers.

Playing with illusion and perception, Wyllie's drawings operate simultaneously as psychological stage sets shaped by lived experience and as portals into an unfamiliar and unknowable realm.