Between Dog and Wolf / Entre Chien et Loup, on view at Everard Read Johannesburg from the 14 May 2026, sees Nicola Bailey turn toward the liminal, those in-between states where perception softens and something more instinctive begins to surface.

Taking animals, particularly dogs, as both subject and counterpart, Bailey works through drawing as a form of proximity. Figures: human and canine which emerge through loose, attentive charcoal lines, held within soft, almost dreamlike fields. The gesture is not about definition, but about approach.

In observing animals dreaming, Bailey gestures toward a shared consciousness of something felt rather than known. The boundary between observer and subject begins to blur. Drawing becomes less an act of depiction and more a form of relation: a way of thinking alongside, rather than about.

There is a quiet insistence here. A sense that understanding is always partial—but that the act of looking, of drawing, brings one closer to inhabiting that space.