Vicky Wright
dal 8/9/2005 al 9/10/2005
Segnalato da
8/9/2005
Vicky Wright
IBID Projects London (old location), London
Soothsayers: a series of new paintings that depict a naive and yet disturbing world of furry creatures, reflecting on their melancholic fate of extinction. The artist is fascinated by sentimental emotions and ambiguous relationships between real and imagined nature, rationality and intuition, control and vulnerability.
Soothsayers
IBID PROJECTS is pleased to present Vicky Wright’s first solo show in London. ‘Soothsayers’ is a series of new paintings that depict a naive and yet disturbing world of furry creatures, reflecting on their melancholic fate of extinction. The artist is fascinated by sentimental emotions and ambiguous relationships between real and imagined nature, rationality and intuition, control and vulnerability.
Vicky Wright’s paintings capture moments of metamorphosis and pagan ritual, celebrate powers of the mythic and the primeval, and evoke the labyrinths of the unconscious. Animals are depicted in the process of becoming human, and humans in the magic rites of returning to the realm of beasts and spirits. Wright’s paintings are inspired and informed by such diverse cultural sources as works of Hieronymus Bosch, Paul Gauguin, Friedrich Nietzsche and August Strindberg.
Vicky Wright lives and works in London and has studied at the Royal College of Art. She had a solo exhibition in IBID Vilnius in 2004 and is due to start her Masters degree at Goldsmith’s College, London this autumn.
Image: Vicky Wright
Mammoth, 2005
oil on canvas
127 x 147 cm
IBID Projects London
210 Cambridge Heath Road
London