Joel Wyllie was born in London 1986, and grew up in Southampton, UK. He graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2015 and is currently living and working between Suffolk and London.
“Joel Wyllie's drawings are distinguished by multiple lines that teem, swarm and gather into forms that are significant for the artist. The myriad lines he lays down seem to grow out of the paper and resemble the beauty of the natural world, such as fish scales or the feathers and eyes of birds. Wyllie’s drawings play with illusion and perception and are simultaneously stage sets relating to lived experiences and portals to another, unknowable and unnameable world”
Kate Macfarlane- Co-Director at Drawing Room, London
Awards/Residencies
Drawing Room Biennial Bursary Award 2021
Artists Leaugue of New York residency 2016
Chadwell Award shortlist 2015
Tropical Lab residency, Singapore 2014
Exhibitions
2024
Situational Attempts- curated by Billy Parker, The Artist Room, London
Drawing Room Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Shedding Pictures, Jack's House, London
Off It Pops, Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin
2023
Along an Ornamental Edge, London
2022
Forms Without Forms- curated by Shayna Fonseka, Asylum Studios, Suffolk
2021 Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London
Return to Naught- Kingsgate Projects, London
2020
Return to the Body- Chalton Gallery, London
2019 Minds Hive- River Street, London
All That the Rain Promises and More... Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 Joel Wyllie Wunderkammer- Chelsea College of Arts, London '28th December 1980'-Asylum Studios, Suffolk Terra Forms - Kris Day, London Material Wood - Messum's, Wiltshire
2017 Mall Malaise - King's Mall, Hammersmith, London Sketches of a Future Room with Wavy Frames- Two person show with Frank Kent- Chalton Gallery, London.
2016 The Averard Hotel- Slate Projects, London Modest Villa Immense Versailles- Kinman Gallery, London Vyt Open Studios- The Artist League of New York, New York
2015 The Kennington Residency with Victoria Adam, London Gordon's Room- RA School's Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 Premium's- Royal Academy of Arts, London Tropical Lab- ICA Singapore, Singapore Painting About Painting, Simmons and Simmons, London Show Off- Leandakatelouise, London
2012 Capgras Proxy- Z- Shed, Bristol CAVE Art Fair- Liverpool