In Bold

By: Hannah Wynn

Blake Wise, Always just passing through, silkscreen with mixed media, 11″x17″. 2020

Living between two countries, the UK and the US, has shown Blake Wise how different places handle different cultural situations. He has spent most of his life however living in the US. Blake plans to move back to the UK to continue his work and find an artist residency or a studio position near Birmingham. He knew that he wanted to be an artist because of an open moment he had with his art teacher in high school. He had opened up about some of his problems with dealing with his identity and she recommended that he put his emotional stress into a form of making.

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