Andrew Shillam - Backyard

Backyard
Ink on paper
30.5cm x 23cm
Ref. 53854

Andrew Shillam's "Backyard" is an ink on paper work that abstracts domestic landscape into a contemporary visual language. The composition dissolves the distinction between architectural structure and natural growth, rendering house and garden as interconnected formal systems rather than separate entities. Shillam's ink technique employs gestural mark-making and spatial ambiguity to suggest rather than delineate, inviting viewers to navigate between representation and abstraction. The work explores a perceive external domestic space linking with a cultivated and wild environment. A sophisticated meditation on home rendered through modernist sensibility, where the backyard becomes a site of formal experimentation and psychological inquiry.