Painting
Works on paper
Collage
Will Vetch's work examines painting, drawing and collage making as a form of non-verbal expression. He is interested in how communication through these practices can be achieved via the interrogation of the mediums into both figurative and abstract form.Through the combination of these painterly constructs Vetch builds environments that host figures or objects. Working through an intuitive and experimental process, Vetch’s practice employs the use of free association to incorporate these forms. The cartoon plays an important role in his practice, using drawing or line building to construct essential forms that evoke an uncomfortable familiarity. Vetch sees his works not so much as individual narratives but as part of a continual world building.
In a current series of paintings and drawings Vetch looks at the studio practice, both in the action of painting as well as its precursing 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 paintings explore all facets of the artist’s daily choreography including standing, sitting, thinking, doing.
Vetch interrogates these mediums to their end, employing various different sources of inspiration; horror magazines, cinema, poetry, art history. 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.
Education
2015-2019 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths UoL, London, UK
2014-2015 Foundation Diploma, Brighton City College, Brighton, UK
Exhibitions
Current
2025 Terse, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
Previous
2024 Lewisham Illuminations, Set Lewisham, London, UK
2023 Babele, Spazio Musa, Turin, IT
2022 Threads, SET New Cross, London, UK
2021 Ombra, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
2020 Homegrown, Hauser & Wirth (Online)
2019 Plump Fiction, (Upstairs) The George Tavern, London, UK
Selected curatorial projects
Upcoming
2025 Terse, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
(Curated with Carlotta Roma)
Jessie Evans, Sophie Spedding, Jim Shaw, Carlotta Roma, Will Vetch
Previous
2025 Torschlusspanik, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
Carlotta Roma
2024 image-event, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
Anastasia Xirouchakis and Tanoa Sasraku as; image-event
2023 Beating the bounds, Inspection Pit, Sussex, UK
Finlay Abbott Ellwood and Rhian Harris-Mussi