Artist: Camila Barvo

Wyn launches its latest limited-edition release during London Gallery Weekend 2026, bringing together London-based Colombian artist Camila Barvo, Irish winemaker Dermot Sugrue of Sugrue South Downs, and writer Joel Hart.

Launched in July 2025, Wyn is a cross-disciplinary platform producing limited-edition wines and publications in collaboration with leading English wineries, contemporary artists, and writers. Each edition pairs a distinct cuvée with a newly commissioned artistic intervention and text, positioning wine as both a cultural object and a collectable work.

The Edition is presented as an installation at General Assembly, spanning a bottle series (c.100 works), five large-format magnum sculptures, and a wall-based textile work.

For this release, Sugrue South Downs has produced a multi-vintage traditional method sparkling wine, based on the 2022 vintage and blended with reserve wines spanning multiple years. Pinot Noir leads the composition, bringing structure, breadth, and a subtle red-fruited depth, a quality that finds a direct parallel in Barvo’s material language, where density, tension, and accumulation are built through layered fibre and knotting.

The bottle becomes a sculptural core. Cotton dyed with Pinot Noir is screen-printed with a vineyard map and overlaid with bubble-derived foil, before being wrapped and knotted into dense, tactile forms, holding the bottle in tension rather than concealing it.

This language expands across the installation. A wall-based textile embeds wire into the fabric, subtly distorting its surface, while the magnum sculptures extend the work into larger, more architectural structures, where fibre and exposed armature make the underlying framework visible.

Reflecting on the process, artist Camila Barvo notes:
“Working with Wyn allowed me to think through another living system. Watching how vines grip and reshape the structures around them, that negotiation between control and growth became central to the work.”

Founder of Wyn, Coco Chen adds:
“Wyn brings together practices that are rooted in process, material, and time. The editions are not just objects, but records of those processes unfolding, something to experience, collect, and return to.”

Dermot Sugrue adds:
“The wines that matter are the ones that move you. Craft is the foundation, but it’s the willingness to take risks, to trust intuition, and to work at that edge between discipline and uncertainty that gives a wine its life.”

A newly commissioned essay by Joel Hart accompanies the edition, using the proposition that “the vine is the artist but also an animal” to examine authorship, craft, and the evolving identity of English winemaking, where creativity emerges through a continuous negotiation between nature, process, and human decision-making.