About 

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​Working primarily in graphite on Yupo paper, Lucienne Mettam creates layered drawings that explore the unseen structures connecting individuals, species, and the environments they inhabit. Drawn to the vulnerability of translucency, Mettam uses the experience of seeing through a form to evoke curiosity about the histories, memories, and invisible forces that exist beneath the visible world.

 

Central to Mettam’s practice is an intuitive process of building images through accumulation. Working almost exclusively with the broad edges of graphite sticks, industrial graphite blocks, graphite powder, and erasure techniques, she begins each drawing by trusting instinct, allowing her first gestures to record a present state before recognizable forms begin to surface...