Iain Wall Precious Stones

Iain Wall, Blue Bayou (For Your Consideration), detail, 2024, 21.5 in. x 17 in., monotype on plaster with pastel, sgraffito, and paper ribbon

Interdisciplinary artist Iain Wall incorporates printmaking sensibilities into drawing, painting, and sculpture. Their work blends medieval art and British material culture, creating tablets and frames that meditate on gay love and life force, whether in solace or celebration. Wall explores visual framing, combining structure and content in multi-apertured narratives. Their recurring depiction of cobblestone and stained glass builds an ornamental, motivic vocabulary that connects labor, temporality, and human connection. Wall’s work seeks to question the nature of presentation, what it means to queer the outline, and the transformative power of objecthood—how pictorial weight and tangibility become testaments.

About the artist: Wall holds a BFA in Printmaking with a concentration in Art History from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their work has been included in Memories and How We Hold Them, as well as Black: Color/Context/Meaning at the RISD Museum’s Gelman Gallery and Lost & Found at the Dye House. Notably, they have completed residencies and exhibited work at the Chautauqua School of Art, the Peter Bullough Foundation, and have been a fellowship recipient at the Manhattan Graphics Center.