Delainey Wyville
artist
art educator
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email- Delaineywyville@gmail.com
instagram- @Delainey_Art_Updates
Bio
Delainey Wyville is an artist and art educator from Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She is currently studying at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. She will graduate in 2026 with a BFA in Art Practice, a minor in Jewelry and k-12 Michigan teaching certification. When not in school she works as an art educator at the Valley Art Center in Chagrin Falls. Her work spans mediums, including jewelry, sculpture and oil painting. Her current body of work focuses on found objects and their relationship to identity.
Artist Statement
My practice is focused on my collection of relics, items lost or left behind by the people I share spaces with. They are typically mundane and seemingly meaningless but when considered as relics of those around me they gain a new significance. In working with them, I am thinking about the way those I share a space with impact me and the way the objects themselves impact me. I stop to pick them up; I rest with them pressed into me; I immortalize their impressions. I spend time and energy feeling them, thinking about them, talking about them and all of that impacts me. I am curious about the different ways of interpreting and representing that impact. In these representations I consider the contrast of delicate, fleeting impressions on my skin and the permanent works created as a result.
My recent work archives these impressions through jewelry, sculpture and photography. Central to my work is the act of touch, between me and these relics and between my work and my viewers. I press these relics into my skin to consider different ways of contacting these objects. Asking what energy a collection of lost and discarded objects carry? How does it feel to press these objects into my skin? What are different ways of representing the relics figurative and literal impact?
In addition to creating meaning in discarded objects, I explore the meaning of objects people choose to keep. Paul Greenhalgh wrote about home as a museum curated by and on the topic of its residents imbuing every object in a space with meaning regardless of how simple. There is at least some level of intention in every object, everything in my space speaks to who I am.
My work asks viewers to consider how the material world intertwines with their personal narratives and how their personal narratives might intertwine with others. It challenges the notion of what is worth preserving and reflects on how the everyday might carry meaning. Through this practice, I hope to offer a sense of closeness to people, to place, and to the subtle, imperceptible forces that shape who we are.