Joel Wycherley’s work encompasses sculpture, installation, and printmaking. Primarily using materials salvaged from construction sites, employing traditional and contemporary techniques to combine fragmented figuration with formal language. His work explores the cross-contamination between the domestic and the natural environment, centering around narratives of speculative renewal and regeneration within the waste of industrial capitalist practices. With an interest in the often crude ways in which we approximate, translate and reproduce experiential phenomena, the work examines where these systems of communication faulter, collapse, and become abstract. Favouring the half-light of the crepuscular, the work positions itself in the suspended transformation of one state into the next, solid into liquid, visible to invisible and back again.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Locusts of the Sickly Sun, GLOAM, Sheffield, 27th July - 18th August 2024
Patella, Studio EW.F1, Sheffield, 7th October - 5th November 2023
Crumble Town, SET, London, 5th - 7th October, 2017
Two Glass Eyes Are Better Than One, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, 9th September - 1st October, 2017

Dik Piks, Lady Beck, Leeds, 21st July - 26th July, 2017

Night, The Horse Hospital, London, 29th April, 2017

Fat Relic 2, Fat Relic, London, 2015

Fat Relic, Fat Relic, London, 2013

WBDBM, Colour Elefante, Valencia, 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Dik Piks Zine, 2017 (https://dikpikzine.tumblr.com/)

Da Thirst Issue 4, 2015

Da Thirst Issue 2, 2013

Da Thirst Issue 1, 2011

EDUCATION

Royal Academy Schools, 2024 - 2027

Slade School of Fine Art, 2011-2015