Sue Wyllie

Sue Wyllie explores the half-light and the shadow lands of remote places that she walks at dusk. She harnesses the agency of her materials, through the rituals of printmaking, to conjure up the liminal space between the mark and its comprehension to create a sense of space, of moment and duration. Recent experiments with Andrew Baldwins BIG etching grounds have inspired her to revisit a previous body of work that explores our relationship with the natural world through imagined botanical forms from the shadowlands. Botanicals emerge from the darkness of the imagination as ugly, beautiful, sexual, compelling mutant forms. Drawing upon her love of orchids, and the many dark stories that embellish our idea of these compelling flowers, Wyllie engineers strange and impossible exotic forms that emerge from the darkest shadows. Wyllie graduated from Northumbria University in 1982 after studying Fine Art and MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking at UWE in 2021. Her work has been shown throughout the UK including The Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibition, the RBSA Print Prize in Birmingham. She has had work included in the previous two years of Woolwich Print Show where in 2021 she won the City and Guilds London Art School Prize.