“seeing you at a distance”
Edwin Devril
21 Mar → 5 May 2026
Window

The top half of the image is a deep red and the bottom half features an embroidered grid that distorts into the background. The word 'softy' is embroidered on top of the grid with faint pencil markings of the words 'softy' and 'men'.
seeing you at a distance, 2025 (in progress detail), Edwin Devril

seeing you at a distance is an experimental installation in the West Space Window by textile artist Edwin Devril, developed during their residency within the West Space Studio in 2025.

"The use of a visual grid can remove the depth of perspective, flattening a view to simple shapes or enhance it through a vanishing point, implying a continuum of evolving perspective.
This installation is a part of an ongoing exploration of perspective and relation that I have been developing through the use of brightly coloured grids. The grid is a tool often used in visual compositions to establish proximity, depth, and structure. Isolating the grid to become the main focal point then becomes a device that can be used to query the relation of space and how it is experienced by an audience." — Edwin Devril

The West Space Window is supported by the City of Yarra.

Edwin Devril standing with their legs crossed and a hand on a chair whilst looking to the side towards a wall covered in various textile works.

Edwin Devril is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist working predominantly in textile and mixed media. His work draws on connection to traditional techniques in sewing and crafts, drawing on the shared knowledge passed through the women in his family as well as historical and popular cultural references. Devril has an interest in site responsive works that reframe typical experiences of place, shaping alternative perspectives to the possibilities of craft. Their work touches on a number of topics including class, identity and connection interpreted through an experimental approach to the use of textiles.