A Place That Only Exists In The Moonlight

Working primarily with large-scale charcoal drawings, Sharyn Wortman’s practice is concerned with opening up and holding a space that is both visual and poetic. Within this space, Wortman’s work asks questions about the relationships between body and landscape, and between spatiality and materiality, to create sites of atmospheric emergence.

Taking cues from her daily routine, including daily walks on common land, Wortman collects impressions in her mind before arriving with them at the studio. Allowing her materials to guide her, she finds that landscapes and imaginal spaces begin to emerge during the drawing process. Each work begins as a formative moment of rupture and arrival onto the page, from which the finished drawings are developed over weeks and months, with the artist repeatedly revisiting and working back into each sheet. Textured charcoal dust sits on top of the drawings’ surface as well as being embedded into the weave of the paper, revealing the depth and complexity of the process. Signed by the artist on the reverse side.

Charcoal on Paper

2025

Framed, 182 x 152 x 5cms

This work is float mounted inside a handmade stained oak frame using museum quality 3mm glass.

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