'FOLD', 2020 Oil on canvas 186 x 152 cm

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Mark Wright
'FOLD', 2020 Oil on canvas 186 x 152 cm
2020

About the Item

MARK WRIGHT BRITISH, B. 1962 'FOLD', 2020 Oil on canvas 186 x 152 cm Signed and dated verso Mark Wright’s nocturnal yet luminous paintings masterfully capture the enigmatic beauty of sublime landscape. Using a cosmic alternation of light and dark, Wright creates such mediated imagery based in part on photographs taken and collected. The pictures feature phosphorus organic and natural imagery converging into what the artist calls “dystopian spaces.” This intersection of representation, experience and process is described elegantly by the artist as “A discursive investigation of the natural world or more specifically landscape as the subject matter is central to my work as an artist. This landscape is not about a specific sense of place but more about the idea of landscape and our relationship we have to it in a post digital world.” To accomplish this complex painterly language that lies between figuration and abstraction, Wright begins with carefully selected support materials such as paper, wood panels, canvas, linen and flax. For the studies on paper the artist uses gouache, ink, watercolour, and acrylic, described as a place between abstraction and figuration “alluding to landscapes that fuse the imaginary, primary and secondary (mediated) images and a painterly-digital aesthetic.” The artist seeks pigment that allows a sense of transparency and translucence within the surface. In works that appear to have an otherworldly sense of illumination, Wright plays with the quality of paint, pattern and light. He notes: “The underpainting or grounds are produced with a combination of distemper and acrylic paints, and then worked over with oil paint. A range of brushes allows an exploration of different calligraphic and gestural processes —a key aesthetic feature. The methods of working define the formal aspects of the work and help to locate my practice within a lyrical abstract and painterly tradition.” For Wright, the process of preparing his materials is in part a thoughtful and studied counterpoint to our more rushed and frenetic relationship with the digital world. Wright grew up in Northumberland in North England along the border of Scotland. Indeed, the Scottish Highlands, The Lake District, and regional coastline informs the artist’s experience of landscape. At an early age, Wright became interested in the way this landscape was seen by artists particularly in the work of John Martin, J.M.W Turner as well as James Abbott Whistler. More recently, visits to Norway have allowed a new way of looking at nature. In Wright’s incandescent paintings, the convergence of landscape, an awareness of our fraught relationship with the digital world, artistic process, and imagination create a masterful body of work that exists as a reverie of abstract beauty. Rosa JH Berland for Aleph Contemporary

Creator:
Mark Wright (1962, British)
Creation Year:
2020
Dimensions:
Height: 73.23 in (186 cm)Width: 59.85 in (152 cm)Depth: 1.97 in (5 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
2010-
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU172829602102

Mark Wright holds his BFA from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London and his MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. Two person show with Henry Ward, Aleph Contemporary 2021 at the In & Out, 4 St James's Square, London. Select solo exhibitions The D’Arcy Thompson Museum, University of Dundee, 2013 Seven Seven Gallery, London, 2008 Carter Presents, London, 2008 Metropole Galleries, The Leas, Folkestone, Kent, 2005 I-Level Gallery, London, 2003 Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London, 2000 Jason and Rhodes Gallery, London, 1996 Lannon Gallery, New York, 1994 Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon, 1993 Anderson O’ Day Gallery, London, 1992 Winchester Gallery, Hampshire, 1991 Select group shows: Edinburgh College of Art, 2019 Coombs Contemporary: Watson Farley & Williams, London, 2019; University of Brighton, 2018 University of Northampton, 2017 Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, 2016 D’Arcy Thompson Art Collection, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2016 Mall Galleries, London, 2016 James Freeman Gallery, London, 2016 Darbyshire Gallery, London, 2016 James Freeman Gallery, 2015 and 2014 Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK, 2015 The D’Arcy Thompson Museum, University of Dundee, 2014 Transition Gallery, London, UK, 2014 H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand, 2014 Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 2013 Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, 2013 Pippy Holdsworth Gallery, London, 2012 Galeria Cadaques, Spain, 2012 Carter Presents, London, 2012 Gallery Stock Berlin, Berlin, 2012 Wimbledon College of Art, London Phoenix Gallery, Exeter Charlie Smith Gallery, London, 2012 Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, 2012 Wright’s work is found in various private collections as well as a number of prominent corporate and public collections including British Airways, Deutsche Bank; Dundee Museums Collection; Merrill Lynch; Montpellier Chapter Art Collection; Pfizer’s Art Collection; Royal College of Art; Slade School of Art; Sony International; TI Group Collection and the Wellcome Trust Collection. The artist has served as a lecturer at numerous universities and art schools over the last twenty years including the University of Brighton; Loughborough University School of the Arts, English and Drama; The Glasgow School of Art; Parsons Paris School of Art and Design; Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University; University College for Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent; University of Northumbria and the Wimbledon School of Art among others. Wright is the recipient of various awards and honours including The Montpellier Chapter Art Collection Commission, 2010; Research Awards, Loughborough University School of the Arts, 2000,2003 and 2008; and Research Sabbatical, Loughborough University, 2007-2008; Wellcome Trust Commission, 2001; Research Fellow in Fine Art Painting, Kent Institute of Art & Design, 1998-2001; British Council Awards, 1994 and 1995; Visiting Fellow in Painting, Winchester School of Art, 1990-1991 and the Boise Travel Award, New York, 1990. Selected collections: British Airways, David Roberts Collection, Deutsche Bank .