Will Vetch

Will Vetch examines painting, drawing and collage making as a form of non-verbal expression. He is interested in how these practices communicate through an interrogation of the mediums, expressed in both figurative and abstract forms. Through the combination of these painterly constructs Vetch builds environments that host figures or objects. Working through intuitive and experimental processes, Vetch’s practice utilises free association to incorporate these forms. The cartoon plays an important role, using drawing to construct essential forms that evoke an uncomfortable familiarity alongside a palpable sense of humour. He sees his works not so much as individual narratives but as part of a continual world-building.

Vetch looks at the studio practice, both in the action of painting and its adjacent tasks. Drawings from life expand into imagined spaces, inanimate objects bloat like fingers and begin tapping at the surface. Paintbrushes dance across the canvas, hammers and screws converse, abstracted surfaces become wide open mouths. The work explores all facets of the artist’s daily choreography.

Vetch explores these mediums to their end, employing various sources of inspiration; horror magazines/found imagery, cinema and art history as well as drawing from imagination. His practice is open ended, preferring to find outcomes through an emotionally charged, process led way of making rather than through a set of clear ideas.