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ArchiveBorn 1970 in London, U.K.
Vicky Wright’s works imply a sense of momentary disorder by taking the shape of abject bodies, or as Mikhail Bahktin spoke of in his writings on the work of French poet Rabelais, “body grotesques”. Heavily influenced by her family’s experience of the coal mining tradition of North West England, and its eventual politically engineered demise, Wright’s work explores the masking employed to disguise such structures and routines imposed upon people by state regimes and other economic apparatus.
Wright’s Extraction series of works reside not exclusively within the bounds of the painting or object, but within a ‘slippage’ of subject and form. Dealing with this de-stablisation, Wright has created a discourse of ‘loss and retrieval’ where each piece of work conforms both to its own illegible logic and hints at other potential readings; interplaying, reinforcing and undermining each other in the process.
Vicky Wright studied at the RCA and finished her MA at Goldsmiths in 2008. She has had solo shows at IBID Projects London (2005) and MOT International (2008), and has taken part in numerous group exhibitions. She was a Winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize (2007) and the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award (2003), as well as a finalist in the John Moores Painting Prize 2008. She will be participating in Daily Miracles at Josh Lilley Gallery in April 2009.
 Vicky Wright, Guardian II, Oil on board, 67 x 50 cm, 2009 |
