W.K Lyhne

Born in South Western Africa of Danish parentage and living and working in London, British artist W.K.Lyhne has created body of work that negotiates the patterns of contemporary culture and its relationship to a deeper art historical dialogue. Her obsession with the ewe, a female sheep, is rooted in its historical and potential symbolism within religion, art, language and time.

In her current show in Venice, The Surrogate, Lyhne pays homage to the roots of lamb symbolism through a body of work inspired by the process of grieving of these ordinary farm animals and allies it with the ritualized loss of the Virgin Mary. The exhibition not only charts the Feminist potential this moment through art history, but also contemplates the broader themes of the animal within all of us and the cyclical nature of mortality and existence.

Lyhne is currently completing a practice-based PhD with supervisors from Chelsea College of Arts, UAL and the University of Oxford.
 

Her work is currently on show at Patricia Low Contemporary, Venice (2024) Gstaad (2024). She has recently been exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (2023); TJ Boulting,
Lungley and Hales galleries in London (2022); and Athens' The British School (2022). She is the co-founder of the Sequested Art Prize, awarded for self-portraiture
and supported by the Arts Council Heritage Lottery Fund.