hyphæ drawing collective

hyphæ drawing collective are a group of ten artists who all value drawing as a vital part of their creative practice.

The collective met online during the lockdown of early 2021. Gradually this shared work evolved into a community based on mutual support and joint explorations of drawing and of what it might become for each.

They borrow their name, hyphæ, from the branching filaments of fungus that form the mycelium – a buried web of communication and nourishment between the trees in a forest.

Online co-presence, and the conversations and connections it allowed to flourish, became the basis of a shared space of vulnerability and trust, within which experiments and new growth could happen.

Drawings can be seen as material thoughts, silting into an organic substrate, an understory. Affinities of touch and sensibility emerge. Charcoal, graphite, ink; marks, scratches and layers – together these form a tangle of resonances, accumulations and drifts of pigment and ideas, sub-plots and strands that connect each to the other. They very much appreciate your attention.